Goalhanger co-founder Gary Lineker has the miraculous ability to find towering success in any field he enters.

The Best of the Rest

Its core titles are rarely out of the U.K. Top 5, and its chattiest, The Rest Is Football, debuted at No. 1. How did Britain’s foremost soccer star, Gary Lineker, quietly build a podcast empire?

By Stuart Heritage

A podcast launch shouldn’t necessarily be big news. After all, the market is so wildly overstuffed that people generally need a new podcast like they need to be pushed down a well. However, The Rest Is Money is no mere podcast. It is the newest installment in the greatest franchise since The Avengers.

Hosted by Steph McGovern and Robert Peston, a former BBC business-news presenter and ITV’s political editor, respectively, The Rest Is Money is a topical overview of the business and finance worlds. And, at the time of writing, it is already the second most popular podcast in Britain, according to Apple’s rankings.