Education
Street Catherine"s College.
Street Catherine"s College.
She is best known for her work with longtime collaborator Olly Mann with whom she presents the comedy podcast Answer Maine This! Answer Maine This! Zaltzman began the weekly comedy podcast Answer Maine This! with Mann in 2007. The duo met in 2000 studying at Street Catherine"s College, Oxford. The podcast is recorded in Zaltzman"s living room in Crystal Palace with assistance from Martin Austwick (aka "Martin the Sound Manitoba").
Zaltzman also edits the show, a process that takes around ten hours per episode.
lieutenant has been voted one of the Top 10 Comedy Podcasts in the World by The Guardian. lieutenant has received critical plaudits in numerous publications including Q (magazine), The Times, Time Out, and Radio Times.
In 2009, the two made history by being the first podcasters to be given their own national show on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live, Web 2009 with Helen and Olly. They have gone on to present several other specials for British Broadcasting Corporation 5 Live.
Due to the podcast"s success, Faber and Faber published a companion book in November 2010.
The Allusionist In January 2015, Zaltzman launched a new linguistics podcast called The Allusionist. Zaltzman is the first British broadcaster on the Radiotopia podcast network. The Guardian describes the Allusionist as "an antidote to all the whither-life-and-how-to-understand-it podcasts".
Radio Along with Mann, Zaltzman was the internet correspondent on British Broadcasting Corporation 5 Live"s Saturday Edition and on Steve Wright in the Afternoon.
She has appeared on Woman"s Hour, The News Quiz, The Richard Bacon Show, Transatlantic with Rory Bremner and Ian Collins"s shows, and was a correspondent on the 2012 Olympics for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Scotland. She has been a guest on numerous podcasts, including The Guardian"s Media Talk and Maximum Fun"s International Waters, and guest-presented a special edition of the Radio Academy"s Radio Talk.
In 2012, Zaltzman was a judge on the Sony Awards. In May 2013, Zaltzman began hosting a monthly podcast for Sound Women, an organisation which campaigns against gender discrimination in the radio industry.