Podcast interview host audition practice interview
Guest research, open questions, active listening, sensitive follow-ups and shaping a clear conversation for podcast listeners. Practise the 6 questions casting panels ask with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- 15 minutes
- 6 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the audition
A podcast interview host audition tests how well you can prepare for a guest and create a conversation worth hearing from beginning to end. The panel looks for strong research, close listening, thoughtful follow-ups, a clear episode shape and care when a discussion reaches personal or sensitive ground.
How to prepare
- Research a practice guest across reliable sources and note what remains unclear or underexplored.
- Build an episode outline around a central question rather than a list of unrelated topics.
- Practise short follow-ups that use the guest's exact point instead of introducing your own story.
- Plan how you will explain essential context for listeners without delivering a long introduction.
- Discuss sensitive areas and boundaries with a practice guest before beginning the interview.
Common mistakes
- Reading the next prepared question instead of responding to what the guest just said.
- Using a long question that contains several possible answers.
- Turning every guest answer into a story about yourself.
- Pushing past a clear boundary because the moment seems dramatic.
- Assuming listeners understand unexplained names or specialist terms.
What to expect
A real audition interview
6 questions the way casting panels ask, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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