LeVar Burton Reads
art19.com
art19.com
But for those of you who don't know (I didn't until recently) encouraging/enabling people to "read" is actually LeVar Burton's main gig. He presented Reading Rainbow [1] long before his involvement in Star Trek.
Reading Rainbow itself, was somewhat recently rebooted by LeVar: https://www.readingrainbow.com/
[1] A show to encourage children to read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Rainbow
On a website related note, the art19 website is bad in one big way. Their homepage is very "investor focused" and not listener focused. If they want to sell ads, they need to get people to listen to their shows! I can't find a link to other podcasts (googling "art19 shows" finds several). I know they have more, but if they want listeners, they need to have their homepage be a directory or recommendation engine so I can find other shows. The investor pitch needs to be secondary. I'm sure the people buying ads will appreciate that as well.
It approaches the pre-roll ad problems by having prominent "skip forward" and "skip backward" 30 seconds buttons, so usually two to three quick taps will bring me back to the content. It solves the speech speed problem by offering pitch-adjusted playback speed controls (so no-one sounds like a chipmunk.)
I assume those can be found in other podcast clients on other platforms, but I'm not familiar with them.