Broadcaster Cherry Healey is the woman to go to for podcast advice.

Perhaps best-known for her BBC Three documentaries on women’s issues, Healey also launched the Letters To My Fanny and The Hotbed podcasts. She’s also been a regular guest on hit podcast series, including Woman’s Hour and Scrummy Mummies. Thanks to her inquisitive nature, warm personality and ability to chat pretty much anyone under the table, podcasting seems a natural fit for the presenter.

But when she first started out, the world of podcasts wasn’t what it is today.

“I would just pop along to where [the guests] were or invite them to my house and we’d sit on my carpet and I’d feed them crisps and chat,” she tells Stylist.

Cherry Healey has some spot-on advice for anyone who wants to start a podcast