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How to get on Ask Penguin

Hosted by Penguin Books UK.

Should you pitch it?

Guest activity
Often has guests
80% of recent episode titles look like interviews
Episode length
50 min
Median of recent episodes. That is the commitment you would be asking for.
Publishing
Occasional
268 episodes · last 2026-09-30
Language
English
The feed says "en" without a region, so the country is unknown.
Where it's from
United Kingdom
A .uk contact address or website.
Reach
78
Percentile among shows you could realistically get on. Not a download count.
Check whether they charge. Some shows sell guest slots rather than booking them, and rates in some fields run to thousands. Nothing in a podcast feed reliably says so, so we do not claim either way. Ask before you write the pitch.
Worth a pitch. This show publishes its own contact, sits outside the national chart, is independently published, and its recent episodes show it books guests.

How this show compares to other culture & arts podcasts

Most episodes here are interviews, well above the Culture & Arts norm, so the format is already built around having someone on.

Measured against every culture & arts podcast in the directory that has published in the last year.

This show Category average
Episodes featuring a guest 80% 15%
Episodes in the last 90 days 2 11
Typical episode length 50 min 46 min
Episodes published in total 268 156
Reach percentile 78 50

Reach is a percentile among shows you could realistically get booked on, built from chart history, longevity, activity and cadence. It is not a download figure. Nobody outside a show can see those.

What the show says about itself

What should I read next? Ask Penguin is the podcast where your quirkiest, trickiest, and most urgent book questions get answered. Hosted by Rhianna Dhillon, we bring bestselling authors and Penguin insiders to explore some of your favourite books and discover new ones that you are yet to read. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recent episodes

Straight from the feed. The quickest way to judge whether your angle fits.

  1. How do you adapt East of Eden for screen?
  2. How can I help someone fall in love with reading? with Nadia Shireen and Jonathan Douglas
  3. Which books help us reconnect with nature? with Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
  4. What's wrong with reading to look smart? with Abir Mukherjee
  5. Which debut novels should you be reading in 2026?
  6. Which books emotionally wrecked you? With Dawn French
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Common questions

Does Ask Penguin accept guests?

Often has guests. This show interviews people regularly. This is our reading of the show's recent episode titles, not a statement from the show itself.

How do I contact Ask Penguin?

Yes. Ask Penguin publishes a contact address in its own RSS feed, and it is the show's own inbox rather than a shared network desk. We hold it and release it to people on a plan. We never invent an address and never send a pitch on your behalf.

How often does Ask Penguin publish?

It publishes irregularly. There are 268 episodes in the feed. Episodes run about 50 minutes.

Is Ask Penguin still active?

Yes. It has published within the last 90 days.