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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #218 Origin stories
Description: Engineering Matters is celebrating its fifth anniversary this week. Podcast founders Bernadette Ballantyne and Jon Young, along with the rest of the Engineering Matters team, tell the story of the show’s creation and rapid growth, and share a behind-the-scenes look at how some of our favourite and most popular episodes have been put together.
Engineering Matters launched at a time when few had heard of podcasts. We were soon seeing thousands of listeners for each episode. Today, every episode is downloaded by over 40,000 people, and many have achieved double those download rates. Our success has been re...