Award-winning U.K.-based independent podcast company Message Heard has signed an audio partnership with The Kyiv Independent, Ukraine’s biggest independent English-language media outlet.

Message Heard has received three nominations at the 2022 British Podcast Awards

Each podcast will feature a key interview with an expert external guest followed by discussion by parliamentarians. Select committees reflect the make-up of the House of Commons, resulting in a cross-party balance of members and the opportunity to hear voices from across the political spectrum.

“Behind the Sun is an excellent and informative new podcast series presented by Nadia Al-Bukai and brought to you by Message Heard. Having left Syria with her family six years ago, this series Nadia retells the modern history of the country and tells us stories about Syria’s notorious detention centres.”

Untold Killing tells the little-known story of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the heart of Europe through the voices of survivors.

Nadia and her family fled Syria six years ago, but she wants to tell the stories of those who went “behind the sun” – or disappeared without a trace.

Read about the latest season of CONFLICTED in the Daily Mail.

Read about Untold Killing S2 in The Sunday Times.

With testimony from reporter Ed Vulliamy, it is a harrowing and cautionary account of human cruelty.

The long-awaited third season starts with the continuation of their bonus episode on Afghanistan.

This hugely insightful, engaging podcast about the Middle East returns after a two-year hiatus to reopen its discussion on Afghanistan.

Read about the protagonist of our upcoming podcast, Finding Natasha, in the Daily Mail and You Mag.

Jake Warren, founder of Message Heard, was featured in a profile of the UK podcasting scene in The New York Times along side other key players in the UK scene.

You can read the whole profile here.

Our signing with Curtis Brown Group was announced by Deadline this week.

As the first podcast company to be represented by the talent agency, we're so exited about this partnership.

Curtis Brown represent the best of the best, and bring incredible expertise from their pioneering Original Audio and Podcasts devision. Read more about it on Deadline here.

Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast was included in The Guardian's 20 best podcasts of 2020.

Coming in at number 9, they said “Its hosts have a serious love for 2000s pop culture and, having grown up with the boundaries between supposedly high and low culture coming down, know how to expertly shift between funny and profound.”.

Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast was added to “The Best Podcasts You Can Listen To In 2020”, a running list of the publication’s must-listen shows.

Twenty Twenty was featured in the Great British Podcast’s newsletter and on their website.

Podcast Radio Hour with Amanda Litherland aired a clip of Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast on the BBC 4 show.

Twenty Twenty was included as one of Stylist’s ‘3 new podcasts to keep your ears happy this October’.