National Geographic Launches ''Consider This'' Podcast

RADIO ONLINE | Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Consider This

National Geographic will launch its first-ever podcast, "Consider This," on June 15, featuring longform interviews with talent from all of the network's 2020 Emmy contenders. The 12-episode podcast series is hosted by journalist Stacey Wilson Hunt and will feature interviews with on-screen talent and other guests.

These guests include Dr. Amani Ballour ("The Cave"), Jeff Goldblum ("The World According to Jeff Goldblum"), Dr. Jane Goodall ("Sea of Shadows"), Bear Grylls ("Running Wild with Bear Grylls"), Marcia Gay Harden ("Barkskins"), Keegan-Michael Key ("Brain Games"), Gordon Ramsay ("Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted"), David Thewlis ("Barkskins"), Neil deGrasse Tyson ("Cosmos: Possible Worlds") and Sue Aikens ("Life Below Zero").

In order to take voters even deeper inside National Geographic productions, interviews also include behind-the-scenes stars, including showrunners and producers Ann Druyan ("Cosmos: Possible Worlds"), Sigrid Dyekjær ("The Cave"), Jon Kroll ("Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted"), Joseph Litzinger ("Life Below Zero") and Elwood Reid ("Barkskins"); composers H. Scott Salinas ("Sea of Shadows") and Colin Stetson ("Barkskins"); production designer Isabelle Guay ("Barkskins"); costume designer Anna Terrazas ("Barkskins"); director of photography Michael Cheeseman ("Life Below Zero"); and directors Brannon Braga ("Cosmos: Possible Worlds") and Richard Ladkani ("Sea of Shadows").

"We are a network that's built on incredible storytelling," said Christopher Albert, EVP of marketing strategy and global communications for National Geographic and National Geographic Documentary Films. "In this most untraditional of Emmy seasons, we wanted to find a way to bring our amazing talent from both in front of and behind the camera directly to the Emmy-voting audience - literally straight into their ears - while also keeping everyone safe and socially distant."