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Your favourite people at VG247.com chat about the best games ever - with a twist. This is a game show where our regular panellists have to pitch their pick for the best game in a very specific category, such as "the best game where you get to eat pie", or "the best game with the worst cars". Our host Jim Trinca then has to pick his favourite, and then has to spend the rest of the week having annoyed two of his colleagues. Usually Connor. It's good, you should listen to it.
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Leadership Recipes

François Moscovici

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From vegans to horse meat lovers, from “can’t boil an egg” to accomplished cooks, from epicureans to those always in a hurry, I interview leaders from all walks of life about their favourite recipe, how it became so and what it means to them in the context of their role. I then show how to cook it properly, without stress.
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Santa Claus is telling us what he’s doing in the lead-up to December 25th and is chatting about all the things he likes most about his favourite time of year. (Hint: Mince pies.) We're also hearing what's happening in the world of Fun Kids, the UK's children's radio station, including bits from their brand new pantomime.
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Tourist Podcast

Vic Elizabeth Turnbull

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Comedians are your tour guides in this alternative travel podcast. Forget Lonely Planet, join your favourite comedians and well-known faces on trips to best-kept secrets, backstreet dives and some unlikely destinations. Produced & Presented by Vic Elizabeth Turnbull with MICmedia.co.uk
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OurLincoln

Marc Rhodes

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OurLincoln brings you interviews with Lincoln’s entreprenuers and professionals as they share their career journey, their vision for Lincoln’s future and why they love living and working our city. Hosted by Lincoln based owner of MR7 Marketing, Marc Rhodes and recorded in The Tank Room at The White Hart Hotel, OurLincoln shares varied and inspirational stories from friends and colleagues around the city. We'll also hear about what they enjoy outside of work, their favourite places, restauran ...
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Have you ever wondered how to build a wood fired (pizza) oven? Perhaps you already have one in your back yard, but you need some tips and tricks to supercharge your cooking? Fire after all is a tricky beast. Interested in the history behind these ancient oven designs and outdoor cooking in general? The Wood Fired Oven podcast is a show where I discuss the food, history and techniques of cooking in a brick oven. I chat with some amazing folks that blow me away with their outdoor cooking, as I ...
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Interesting, inspiring, original conversations with women we love* about people, politics, fashion, food and more. *(and men, and non-binary people) We’re positive and honest online allies, providing content specifically made by us, for listeners like you. ~ Stay in the loop, join The Pool ~ Sign up to receive our daily email of exclusive stories and get access to our scrapbook, to save and record your favourite items http://bit.ly/signupthepool
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Gaming is one of the world's biggest past times and has been the staple of many lives from the days of the old classics to generation 9 of the current consoles. There have been great games, not so great games and games that never made it. We are Dusty2Broken and we grew up on games from those on old dusty Cartridges, to those on broken discs and now downloads. So join us now as we take a look and talk about all our favourite games old and new. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify ...
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A women’s rugby podcast! Not exclusive to women, or about women’s rugby, but a fresh female take. England World Cup winner Nolli Waterman, and rugby broadcaster Laura-Jane Jones will be talking you through both the women’s and men’s games, and taking you on their adventures in the sport. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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You wait years and years for something to finally be over, and once that day comes, you’re left not with a sense of joy, but with a deep-set anxiety about what comes after. Bereft. Unable to enjoy the simple joy of being free, because you’ve been around the block a bit, and you know how these things go. Sigh. But enough about finishing Morrowind. R…
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Most games age like milk in the hot sun. But some are so bold, so brilliant, that they transcend their contemporary era, remaining relevant and highly playable for years or even decades following their release. But which of these has most aged like a fine bottle of fermented grapes, mashed between someone's manky toes? To find out you'll simply hav…
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There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247.com paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free. Still inspired by last week's topic, we thought we'd flip it on its h…
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Many great games have suffered from poor marketing. Sometimes they’re advertised to entirely the wrong demographic. Other times, they’re partnered with uncool or problematic brands. A lot of the time they’re just hard to explain, and need to be experienced to properly understand, so unless you can get a significant number of people to try a demo yo…
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It won't have escaped your notice, dear viewer or listener, that the last episode - our incredible two-part 100th episode special quickfire edition - featured six contestants instead of the usual three. It may have escaped your notice, however, that 50% of them were not actually VG247 staff. This has caused certain ripples at VG247 Towers. Realisin…
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To recap: for the 100th episode we decided to come up with 100 episode topics and blow them all on one huge quiz round, with individual buzzers and everything. Inviting some favourite guests to return (Owen, Richie, and Burns) with the promise that, yes, however many points you score in this mammoth episode will be added to your overall total for t…
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One-hundred episodes. 100 weeks of The Best Games Ever podcast. I can scarcely believe it. On a personal note, it's been wonderful to host this stupid, daft, funny, sometimes even informative show about games past and present, with its mad politics and meta-games, running gags, plot twists, special guests, and so on. Tom asked me to host it on a fr…
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Ahead of our big 100th Episode Quickfire Special Featuring Steve Burns, which is going to irrevocably change the scoreboard forever, Tom and I decided to do another one of our Best Games Ever Podcast audits, where we review everyone's picks in the last few months, reveal who ranks best in overall wins and win percentages, and maybe... just maybe...…
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Today’s guest is not just a social business leader, he is also a policy wonk, a tech entrepreneur, and a crossbench (non political) Peer. Born and bred in Wakefield, Victor dropped out of school and worked as a road sweeper before branching into council housing management and getting his first CEO role aged 24. He ran increasingly complex social en…
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Realistic water and wetness were seen for years as a litmus test for photorealistic graphics, but by the PS3 generation, developers had it nailed: water shaders had become so sophisticated that Nathan Drake would emerge from a full dousing of seawater and slowly dry off, with his clothes soaked, and skin glistening. It was a mesmerising effect: it’…
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Whatever your attitude to guns in real life (for the record, they’re awful and civilians shouldn’t have them), it’s hard not to become a sort of virtual gun nut when you’re a gaming enthusiast because, inevitably, our primary interaction with game worlds is shooting bullets into them. Even games which emphatically are not shooters often feature gun…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of the Wood Fired Oven podcast, join me as I embark on an early evening walk through Rome, weaving through bustling streets en route to the legendary Bonci Pizzarium. Founded by Gabriele Bonci, this pizzeria is celebrated for revolutionizing Rome’s pizza scene with its unique "pizza al taglio" or pizza by the…
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Hello and welcome to episode 97 of the Best Games Ever Podcast. As is traditional, let us give you some information about the show. This week we are looking for our contestants to think of the best game in which you fight a bear. Let's see if anyone decides to subvert the topic in ways that cause mutiny within the ranks. As ever, host Jim Trinca mu…
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You can’t say anything these days! Is what silly people say, a lot. You can actually say whatever you like. You can say, for example, and with confidence, that there are certain things you could get away with in gaming thirty years ago that simply wouldn’t fly now. Like… racing games with only one track. Platformers with a length of 20mins if you’r…
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Today’s guest has spent her entire career dealing with leaders before becoming one herself. She joined Europe’s largest Executive Search firm straight from university, fell in love with the industry and never left. After 20 years at Egon Zehnder, where she ran the Research teams in London and India, she founded her own firm and now focuses on ident…
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Inspired by the (frankly excellent) Fallout TV show, this week on VG247's Best Games Ever podcast I've tasked my colleagues with finding the best game where a family member ditches you. With the prerequisite understanding that none of them are allowed to pick Fallout 3, the quintessential "dad's buggered off" simulator. As it turns out, being forsa…
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Inspired by the recent free drop of current viral sensation Content Warning – a co-op survival “shooter” about making spooky FauxTube videos with three of your mates – this week’s Best Games Ever podcast is all about freebies that we’d happily pay for. It’s a happy coincidence that this topic coincides with the launch of our extended podcast: a pai…
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The Best Games Ever podcast is a game show where three totally normal and socially acceptable panellists have to find the best game in a peculiar category such as "Best game with a breakfast buffet", or "Best game with loads of vandalism". They have to pitch their pick to our host, Jim, who uses his power to decide the winner. But there's a lot of …
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Big Western style open-world RPGs from beloved Japanese studios who tend to be known for other things (inhale) are like buses: there's none for ages, and then two come along at once! See also: Clinton-era disaster movies about Earth getting clobbered by an asteroid. See also: Clinton-era disaster movies about America getting clobbered by volcanoes.…
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Send us a Text Message. In this season three premiere, I celebrate Italy's ancient and revered baking traditions by journeying from the historic Colosseum in Rome to the culinary haven of Caiazzo, specifically to dine at the acclaimed Pepe in Grani. This episode is a tribute to the spirit of Italy's ancestral bakers, whose legacy vibrates through t…
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It’s clear from Helldivers 2’s marketing that the game is directly inspired by Blair-era Dutch arthouse anti-war movie Starship Troopers. It’s also clear from playing it that Warhammer 40,000 and the future war bits of Terminator have made their mark on the project, and with its sprawling, player led, strictly PVE campaign engendering a keen sense …
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It's been long and arduous road to something resembling a worthy adaptation of Frank "dirty" Herbert's sand-based epic Dune, but with the recent release of Denis Villeneuve's Dune 2, we can safely call that one done. I just hope we get enough sequels for the films to start covering such nonsense as half-worm emperors and chair dogs. Aside from the …
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On International Women’s Day we are delighted to welcome our first woman leader on the programme: Helen Steers, senior Partner at Pantheon, a global private equity firm based in London. Trained as an engineer, Helen fell into the world of finance via a detour in Canada. We discuss her career as a leader in private equity and how she decided early o…
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If you're anything like me, nothing makes you lose interest in a game quicker than the words "always online". Or "free-to-play". Or "connected experience", or whatever other marketing terms they've come up with for "live service grindfest that sucks". Sometimes they don't even tell you upfront that it's a GAAS title, leaving it up to the prospectiv…
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Physical game releases have been in danger of disappearing for a long time, what with Steam all but killing the PC optical drive, a cheaper discless PS5, and the rumoured incoming Xbox Series refresh which will do away with bluray even on the premium model. They're not likely to die off entirely: there will always be holdouts in the die-hard enthus…
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The Best Games Ever podcast is a game show where three regular panellists have to find the best game in a weirdly specific category such as "Best game with a named horse", or "Best game with a terrible British accent". They have to pitch their pick to our host, Jim, who then decides the winner. But there's a lot of office politics, backstabbing, an…
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Sometimes it's just really baffling why certain games are popular. And you wonder to yourself if it's just because you're broken in some way. What malfunction or defect from birth would lead someone to, say, think Horizon Zero Dawn is a load of cobblers? We're here to reassure you that it's fine, actually, to just not get Mass Effect. To look on in…
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What's the best game that has no business being brought up on a podcast that's all about the Best Games Ever? If you can get your head around that, you're already way ahead of our regular panel. Some of the worst games ever made are also the most interesting. Take Night Trap, for example: it's arguably one of the most important games in the history…
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Honestly, we've got no idea what episode this is. Jim thinks this is Season 2, which is news to everyone else, but it's also sort of episode 84. This week we pick the games that we just can't stop going back to. The games that, despite knowing we have newer titles to work through, we play at every opportunity. Do you have one? Oh, and we introduce …
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For our third episode we travel from the near West (Dorset) and to South Asia (Sri Lanka). Paul Oliver has left the big corporate life as well as the dreaming spires of Oxford to help make health and care for old people better. He sees food as an integral part of social bonding and a dignified later life. Nothing destined Paul to appreciating and c…
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So much STUFF game out in 2023 - we had Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, a new Baldur's Gate, a Skyrim sequel which introduced such innovations to the series as: Guns and Boring. Starfield, I'm talking about. And you knew that, but I have to spell it out in the body text because a certain tech giant has taken wordplay, nuance, and creativity out onto t…
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The festive cheer is palpable with only two sleeps left till Christmas! Santa and the elves are in high spirits, singing Christmas songs and attempting to recall the lyrics of 'The Twelve Days of Christmas. Can you remember them all? Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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Well, for the six of you who kept asking, Merry Christmas. For this festive episode on VG247’s Best Games Ever Show, Tom and Jim are reunited with friends and former colleagues Simon Miller and Steve Burns. Since they all parted ways from their infamous stint at VideoGamer.com, Simon has gone on to become a professional wrestler, in-demand presente…
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That there are only four sleeps left till Christmas, marking the annual Mince Pie Bake Off at the North Pole! While Santa is too preoccupied with Christmas preparations to participate this year, he's excited to be the judge, indulging in tasting the scrumptious mince pies baked by everyone... Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus Se…
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Santa's updating listeners on the elves' preparation for Christmas Eve by monitoring weather forecasts to optimise the reindeer's flight path and ensure a comfortable journey for both the reindeer and Santa himself! Everything is falling into place smoothly, thanks to the tireless efforts of the hardworking elves... Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https:/…
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Mrs Claus is going over the plan for Christmas Eve. It's very important to follow it to the letter because if we don't, we can get behind schedule and the worst case scenario would be that Santa doesn't make it every country in the world! Thankfully that has never happened and nor will it ever thanks to Mrs Claus' organisation. Join Fun Kids Podcas…
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We have a lot of guests on the VG247 podcast because we know a lot of Games Media Personalities and most of them are too polite and/or socially inept to say "no" when we ask them to be on our podcast. In the last year we've had such Talented Greats as Mike Channel from Outside Xbox And Things and James Batchelor who has written some books. But whic…
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Santa reports from his sleigh, detailing its modern upgrades: a music system for carols, heated seats, and a digital photo album of Mrs. Claus! The sleigh runs primarily on solar power and wind, showcasing the elves' innovative strides toward eco-friendliness... Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for p…
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The incessant nature of catchy songs is on Santa's mind today! He's compiling a Christmas playlist for the sleigh ride on Christmas Eve, including classics like "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree," and "All I Want for Christmas." Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidsliv…
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In this episode of the Santa Daily, Santa's countdown continues with only 9 sleeps left until Christmas. We're all excited! Santa's sharing a heartwarming message about the true essence of gifts, emphasising the importance of kind words, loving gestures, genuine smiles, and helping hands in making the world a better place. Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: …
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In the run-up to the holiday season I thought it would be appropriate to have a spiritual leader... Jim has one of the most interesting jobs at the LSE: formally he is the Chaplain, but he is also the director of the all-religions Faith Centre as well as a professor in the department of International Relations. Recently, his time has been consumed …
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Santa's sharing his enthusiasm for his new high-tech red suit, specially designed by the elves to regulate temperature in varying climates! No matter where you live, he will visit you on Christmas Eve, even those without chimneys, using his magic key! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info…
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What's your favourite Christmas film? In today's episode, Santa shares this weekend's Christmas movie selection... Elf and Home Alone emerge as the final choices for the film lineup, satisfying Santa and his companions' preferences. Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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We're flying all over the world in today's episode of The Santa Daily! Joyeux Noel. Feliz Navidad. Papa Noel or Pierre Noel. Kris Kringle. Father Christmas – as well as Santa. We're finding out how the big day's celebrated all over the planet. Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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It's Sugarplum and Sparkle's annual How to Wrap Christmas Presents workshop – and what a fabulous job they did of it too, even if Snowball did go walks for a bit... We're also hearing the very first episode of the Fun Kids Pantomime this year – Out Whittingtoned! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for …
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