UK podcast production company Message Heard has made its staff redundant and ended the freelance contracts of fourteen people, Podnews has learnt, and gone into voluntary liquidation. We have been told that many are owed money for work they have already delivered.
Conflicted, the company’s history podcast, appears to have ceased publishing in the middle of October. The last posted episode doesn’t appear to be obviously the last in a season; nor has it posted on its X account since. But last week, producer and presenter Thomas Small described “unresolved difficulties over payment for our work”. He’s started a small mailing list for listeners to keep updated.
In the last 24 hours, Christopher Phin, a former freelancer,