While a large number of people who listen to K’s Purl Diving podcast are knitters (for obvious reasons), she’s attracted what she finds is a surprising number of listeners who tell her “I don’t knit and don’t have a clue about what you’re talking about most of the time — but I love the way you talk about it.”

She’s had similar comments about her Cinéfolle movie podcast too: “I don’t know most of the people (actors, directors and so on) or films you talk about, but I just love the way you talk about them!”

I think some of the reasons for this reaction is (apart from her having a nice voice) are that her podcasts don’t fit the usual mould and that she conveys enthusiasm for whatever she’s talking about.

For an example of the former, there’s an excellent knitting podcast (Cast-on by Brenda Dayne) that pretty much set the gold standard for the knitting podcast genre; there have been lots of others spring up that emulate her format but not nearly as well in most cases.

K’s podcast, on the other hand, is pretty much orthogonal to Brenda’s format; she talks around knitting (if that makes sense), about how it fits in her life, her memories triggered by knitting events, but not about what she’s knitting at the moment. Ditto for the movie podcast — it’s not movie reviews, it’s more like a personal journal about how movies fit into her life, influence her appreciation of things and so on.

Thanks for taking the time to review it!

BTW K has been reading your blog, and getting lots of ideas for new podcasts to listen to — she says “Thanks!”