Best Scott Docherty Podcasts (2024)

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New Trailer - Venger’s Realm: Encounters & Tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters 1:20

2+ y ago1:20

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Welcome to the Venger's Realm Podcast. Returning after a long pandemical break, the upcoming episodes will lead you through even more thrilling encounters that'll widen your players' eyes. These encounters will have come from my old brain, but more importantly, there'll be plenty of encounters from subscribers, followers, patrons, and more, and thi…

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Episode 7 - Venger’s Realm: Encounters & Tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters 25:36

4y ago25:36

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Fancy using terrain in an encounter to shock the players, and give them a challenge in battle they’d never expect? Great, then this encounter's for you! This is EPISODE 7 of my new TTRPG podcast, with an awesome Curse of Strahd Barovia encounter & tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters in tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons or Pathf…

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Episode 6 - Venger’s Realm: Encounters & Tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters 26:07

4y ago26:07

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Wanna present to the party someone who’s highly skilled and connected to the party’s goals, but who might get in its way at every turn? Looking for a way to give this NPC an awesome spin? Great, then this encounter's for you! This is EPISODE 6 of my new TTRPG podcast, with an awesome encounter & tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters in tabletop r…

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Episode 5 - Venger’s Realm: Encounters & Tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters 24:50

4y ago24:50

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Wanna give your players the fear that their characters’ every step is being watched? Looking for a way to have them accused for a crime they didn’t commit? Great, then this encounter's for you! This is EPISODE 5 of my new TTRPG podcast that's well & truly building up some proper steam, with an awesome encounter & tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Mas…

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Episode 4- Venger’s Realm: Encounters & Tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters 25:34

4y ago25:34

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Looking for an awesome encounter to transition the party anywhere from they might be to where it fancies going next? Want that transition itself to be so memorable they'll want to look it out again and again? Great, then this encounter's for you! This is EPISODE 4 of my brand new TTRPG podcast, with an awesome encounter & tips for Dungeon Masters &…

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Episode 3 - Venger’s Realm: Encounters & Tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters 22:02

4y ago22:02

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Looking for a way to create all out war from something small? Wanna place your players in the heart of a socio political game? Great, then this encounter's for you! This is EPISODE 3 of my brand new TTRPG podcast, with an awesome encounter & tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters in tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder.…

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Episode 2- Venger’s Realm: Encounters & Tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters 18:28

4y ago18:28

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Wanna put your players into the thick of a simply presented, but ultimately complex social conundrum that leaves them scratching their heads trying to work out which of two or more options they should take? Great, then this encounter's for you. Let's get going. This is EPISODE 2 of my brand new TTRPG podcast, with an awesome encounter & tips for Du…

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Episode 1 - Venger’s Realm: Encounters & Tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters 16:54

4y ago16:54

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Do you wanna break stereotypes in your game as a Dungeon Master or Game Master? Need some inspiration to surprise your players? Great. This random encounter might be just what you need! This is EPISODE 1 of my brand new TTRPG podcast, with an awesome encounter & tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters in tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & D…

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TRAILER - Venger’s Realm: Encounters & Tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters 2:44

4y ago2:44

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This is the TRAILER for a brand new TTRPG podcast, with awesome encounters & tips for Dungeon Masters & Game Masters in tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder. Rock your players’ world at the table. Dispel your fears all your prep will fall flat. Every episode flying out from the infamous Venger’s Realm tavern will lay out…

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Carol Hope - Involving young people in conflict resolution

8y ago

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In this #videoCALM interview, mediator Scott Docherty chats with Carol Hope of hopemediation.co.uk. Carol has practiced and developed mediation for decades and been instrumental in bringing peer mediation and conflict resolution skills to young people & families throughout Scotland. In the interview Carol talks about the benefits to young people of…

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Lisa Parkinson - Mediation developments from 1978 into the future

8y ago

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Lisa pioneered mediation in the UK and Europe, having set up the first mediation service here in 1978 and then the Family Mediators Association. Her work in developing mediation is pretty unparalleled, and continues particularly in the area of child-inclusive mediation and as chair of the Advisory Board of the Voices in the Middle campaign. This in…

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Sue Atkins - Parenting, communication, coaching after separation

8+ y ago

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In this interview our Scott Docherty talks with Sue Atkins, parenting expert and coach, best-selling author of Parenting Made Easy and a huge amount of similar resources, and regular on ITV's "This Morning" show as well as on Sky and BBC Radio. Sue talks passionately about parenting apart and talking to your kids after separation. Her down-to-earth…

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Bill Eddy - On conflict, mediation & new ways for families

8+ y ago

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This immensely practical interview features Bill Eddy, President of the innovative High Conflict Institute in San Diego and pioneer of simple techniques to reduce conflict in, amongst other things, separation. During the discussion Bill whips out his second brain to explain what's going on internally when we act or react in conflict, and tells us s…

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Karen Bonnell - Have you tried a parenting plan?

8+ y ago

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Our Scott Docherty talks with Karen Bonnell of Coach Mediate Consult, Seattle, author of the hugely practical and inspirational Co-Parents' and Parenting Plan Handbooks. In this interview, Karen talks about what a parenting plan is, what it can cover in your separation or divorce, the challenges that might get in the way of creating a plan, and mos…

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#audioCALM with Alan Susskind of Harper Macleod

8+ y ago

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This interview features Alan Susskind of Harper Macleod, Glasgow. Alan talks about choosing the right dispute resolution process when you separate and approach a family lawyer. He explains the various options your lawyer should lay out for you in working out what type of process might lend itself to resolving your issues, whether that may be negoti…

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#audioCALM with Charlie Irvine

8+ y ago

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In this #audioCALM interview recorded at the University of Strathclyde Law School, our Scott Docherty talks with Charlie Irvine, former chair of the Scottish Mediation Network, active and innovative mediator, and Senior Teaching Fellow at the university. Charlie talks here about conflict, about the way we approach separation issues and how our brai…

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Jane Evans - On emotional connection with kids after separation

8+ y ago

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This interview features Jane Evans (thejaneevans.com), trauma parenting expert with a background in early years care, foster care, and parenting & family support. Recently explored in her fascinating and inspirational TEDxBristol talk on Taming And Tending Your Meerkat Brain, this interview centres on the development of a child's brain, and the imp…

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Gary Direnfeld, On The Folly Of Court

8+ y ago

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This interview features Gary Direnfeld, internationally renowned social worker, keynote speaker and author of, amongst other things, the wonderful book Raising Kids Without Raising Cane. Gary talks with relaxed clarity and passion about the importance of choosing the right path in resolving your separation issues, and mentions particularly the foll…

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Meet Susan Oswald of SKO Family Law Specialists, Edinburgh

8+ y ago

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Meet Susan Oswald of SKO Family Law Specialists, Edinburgh. In this wonderfully gentle interview, Susan talks about the types of situations, and the types of people, mediation can help. She tells us that if you are recently separated, have been separated for some time, even if you've been embroiled in court with your ex partner or spouse, mediation…

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Meet Rachael Kelsey and Robert Gilmour of SKO Edinburgh

8+ y ago

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Meet Rachael Kelsey and Robert Gilmour, both accredited lawyer-mediators of SKO Family Law specialists in Edinburgh. In this 'co-mediated' chat they explore just how flexible the CALM model of mediation is. What is the CALM model? It's really just how we describe the way our lawyer-mediators uniquely approach family mediation around Scotland. The f…

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Meet Ewan Malcolm

9y ago

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Meet Ewan Malcolm, Chief Executive of Relate London North West, in this wonderful interview about online mediation recorded via Skype. If you push to one side the slightly dodgy resolution in the audio, you'll have the opportunity of listening to the thoughts of a genuine guru and pioneer of mediation in Scotland and beyond. Ewan established the Sc…

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Meet Anne Dick, of Family Law Matters, Glasgow

9y ago

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Meet Anne Dick, of Family Law Matters, Glasgow. Although she would never accept it, Anne is a true pioneer of mediation in Scotland. Some decades ago she helped introduce it to our country, whose preferred system of determining family law disputes until then had been solely adversarial. Anne became the founding convener of CALM Scotland and the ver…

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Meet Helen Hughes

9y ago

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Meet Helen Hughes, of McAuley McCarthy & Co, Solicitors, Paisley, and the current convener of CALM Scotland, in this, the very first #audioCALM interview with our accredited mediators. In this fascinating discussion, Helen talks with our Scott Docherty about what mediation actually is, how it's different from other forms of sorting out your separat…

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Meet Rosie Robertson of the Calton Heritage and Learning Centre

9y ago

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Meet Rosie Robertson, manager of the Calton Heritage and Learning Centre. In this interview, you'll hear a lot about the Calton, an area of Glasgow even some of us living in the city either have never heard of or at least think about very little. Rosie lives and works there. She talks with passion and integrity about its proud working class history…

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Meet Anne Mulhern of the Willow Tea Rooms

9y ago

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Meet Anne Mulhern, owner of the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow. Listening to Anne you might begin to understand just how influential Charles Rennie Mackintosh continues to be not only for architects, designers and artists around the world, but also for them wot aren't, in this instance a lady who moved on from redundancy, learned how to cook, and befo…

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Meet Ian Elder of the Lighthouse

9y ago

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Meet Ian Elder of the Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Design and Architecture. As Ian quotes in this fascinating interview, design is a restlessness with the status quo, and listening to his description of what he does day in day out from this breathtaking building in the centre of Glasgow, you might come to appreciate just how vital it is to Sco…

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Meet Liz Scobie of the West End Festival Glasgow

9+ y ago

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Meet Liz Scobie, chair of the West End Festival. On the exciting day the hotly anticipated 2015 festival programme was unveiled, listen to Liz as she goes through some of the highlight events happening this June, starting of course with the parade on 5th June which will be the largest of its kind in the UK you'll experience outside London. This yea…

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Meet James Dean of Platform Glasgow

9+ y ago

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Meet James Dean of Platform Glasgow. This interview is for those, even in Glasgow, whose muscle memory associates the east end of the City with nowt but crime & poverty. It's for those who've been to the Barrowlands for a gig but stepped no further into the perceived darkness beyond. It's for those who feel there's no point exploring the empty, for…

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Meet Alan Govan of the Mugstock Festival

9+ y ago

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Meet Alan Govan of the Mugstock Festival of Music and Merriment. In this enthralling interview, listen to Alan talk passionately about how to put on a not-for-profit, but totally ambitious community festival from scratch. He took a long-standing dream moulded only a little by sheer punnery, and transformed it into a crowdfunded sensation that's goi…

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Joe Smillie of the Glad Cafe

9+ y ago

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Meet Joe Smillie, venue manager and director of the Glad Cafe in the southside of Glasgow. In this conversation, Joe talks about the cafe's beginnings, and its growth from a humble bar to the beating heart of something absolutely magical taking root in the local community. Learn about the Glad Foundation, Glad Rag Mag, Glad Academy, Glad Rags Thrif…

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Crawford Smith of the Southside Fringe

9+ y ago

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In the very first interview for Glasgow Conversations, meet Crawford Smith, the co-founder of the Southside Fringe festival in Glasgow. Hear him talk passionately about the humble origins of the Fringe which he started with Corinna Currie and which has now transformed into an amazing few weeks on the festival calendar every May, operating now from …

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The Twelfth - "Potatoes"

10+ y ago

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The Twelfth: "Potatoes". Coming only 18 months following our last venture into cyberspace, Faither and I bring you our promised episode about football. Well, except it's actually about food. Stealing excerpts from Maw Broon's nutritious cookbook we make stomachs either rumble or turn with talk of pieces and dripping, finnan haddie, rabbit stew, sto…

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Untitled

12y ago

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The Eleventh: "Speedway". In our new show recorded surprisingly soon after the last one (we must have been confused and thought another year had passed), Faither sets forth on another aimless trek along the dusty annals of his withering memory. This time it's about entertainment in ol' Glesca, including going to the Shawfield Dogs and Speedway, rol…

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The Tenth: "Rabbits"

12y ago

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The Tenth: "Rabbits". In this, the tenth instalment of our regular fortnightly podcast, Faither yaps about holidays in and around Glasgow. So as you can imagine, this involves stories about hunting for small change on the beach, skinning rabbits at scout camp, and, of course, saving up all year to afford a taxi ride to the train station. Nowt like …

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The Ninth: "Muscular"

13y ago

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The Ninth: "Muscular". This one was supposed to be all about Glasgow's unfortunate tag as the "No Mean City", but as expected, we digress into the usual nonsense including the Burns Howf and the Muscular Arms, Maggie Bell and Stone the Crows, playing "jorries" and working out what "gird wi a cleet" means. Charlie gets corrected once again by our ev…

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The Twenty Sixth: "Ressurection"

13+ y ago

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The Twenty Sixth: "Resurrection". After a short break of one year, we're back. This time around there's no songs, no jingles, no social networking, all of it put to one side to make way for even more of our "unique" brand of "comedy" banter. After a year of heavy research we've enough material at the very least to celebrate St. Andrew and his prett…

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The Eighth: "Dizzy"

13+ y ago

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The Eighth: "Dizzy". In an embarrassing family meltdown of an episode, Faither takes us through his drunken exploits at the Majestic, the Locarno and various other haunts from ol' Glesca in the 50s and 60s, including what happened when the dance halls closed and everyone staggered into midnight mass. This one was supposed to be all about music thou…

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The Seventh: "Beatstalkers"

14y ago

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The Seventh: "Beatstalkers". So after six episodes bursting with many droning tales of lacklustre 'lore in ye olde Glesca, Faither finally gets into his stride. This one marks the start of no doubt twenty shows about his life in music. We start off here yapping about Radio Luxembourg and the pirates of Caroline; we dance around the old Eglington Pl…

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The Sixth: "C'moangetaff"

14y ago

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The Sixth: "C'moangetaff". Out of the depths of silence and the choppy seas of disinterest, comes our new instalment of rambling Glasgow folklore, proving that after a truly unearned Summer break, we're finally back to work. And this one's all about ra graftin: going to the steamie and making up the coal fire in the morning, putting on your first p…

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The Fifth: "Peas"

14y ago

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The Fifth: "Peas". It's been a while, so to treat you all for waiting so patiently, this time around we've made sure to talk about the usual nonsense. There's a wealth of useless memories about eating mushy peas at the Barras, playing 'stage coaches' in a coalbunker, the magnificent toys you used to get for handing over rags in the street, why the …

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The Fourth: "Fleapit"

14+ y ago

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The Fourth: "Fleapit". Once again we run out of time yapping on about the street games of old in Glasgow. Maybe it's because we diverge into wandering tales of camping in Benderloch and faither's early romantic liasons (ahem...), but at least we manage to cram in some stuff like playing 'P or a K' and 'Red Car' in the street, the local boxing club …

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The Third: "Sugarolly"

14+ y ago

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The Third: "Sugarolly". This time around it's all about the street games in old Glesca. We hear all about the wee toerags wreaking havoc with the tenement folk tying their doors together with rope, catching hudgies at the BRS depot in Lister Street, being chased by Limpy Dan from the Kennedy Street playground, making what sounds to have been a very…

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The Second: "Coal"

14+ y ago

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The Second: "Coal". This one's all about Christmas and Hogmanay in Glasgow back in the day, and I think you'll soon come to the understanding via Charlie's fading memories about the festive period, that when he was growing up in the City, the real celebration was at the Bells rather than around the Christmas dinner table. He really tries his best t…

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The First: "Rambling"

14+ y ago

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The First: "Rambling". In this, the first episode of the new Glasgow Generations podcast, you'll hear Scott Docherty talk Glasgow with his dad, Charlie Docherty. You'll hear lots of rambling bits and pieces about the Townhead area Charlie was brought up in, some of the bombs that either exploded or didn't explode in the City during WWII, a little a…

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The Twenty Fifth: "Bushmonkey"

14+ y ago

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The Twenty Fifth: "Bushmonkey". 'This is it', as they famously say. After an honest fortnight's break comes our Quarter of a Century Episode, and to celebrate we take you painstakingly through a 12-part quiz (well, 12-ish anyway) on how our pointless little show has changed the world since it was yanked screaming from a womb barren, oh so barren of…

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The Twenty Fourth: "Rats"

15y ago

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The Twenty Fourth: "Rats". As we wind down our first full day in cyberspace (OK, so that's sweeping to one side the fact that most of our shows last less than an hour, so really, even though this is the 24th episode, there's not been 24 hours worth of material, certainly not comedy material anyway, and also the fact that for each of these 24 episod…

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The Twenty Third: "Eurotripped"

15y ago

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The Twenty Third: "Eurotripped". We're back refreshed from a non-earned break, that is, a break that wasn't earned, and to drill home the point we've come up with our first show for a while lasting more than an hour. Yup, that's one full hour of pure, unadulterated comedy. You'll find it packed to the nines with Alan's important lessons from his tr…

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The Twenty Second: "Rosie"

15y ago

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The Twenty Second: "Rosie". With the greatest of thanks to Audacity, that most wizard of editing tools, and to Our Rosie, the winner of our last competition to whom this show is now dedicated (and who's definitely better than a convicted murderer), comes a brandly spanktuous new episode of this most tragic of podcasts. We wonder this time at the bo…

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The Twenty First: "Moonings"

15y ago

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The Twenty First: "Mooning". Sorry about the late show due to the Springsteen and subsequent swine flu, but you can rest assured that this one was worth the wait. In our longest show for a while, we lament the passing of a national hero, review the new Frank Bruno Movie, the audio-described Transformers: Revenge of the Falling Earth Movie, the Herm…

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The Twentieth: "Lionel"

15y ago

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The Twentieth: "Lionel". To be honest, it was supposed to be called "Michael", but you'll soon see why that wouldn't have been entirely appropriate. In our first landmark show we cycle furiously through our place in the history of iTunes, our thoughts on Wacko Jacko, Farrah Fawcett and Not Dead Goldbloom, and come to rest in Wimbledon & the coronat…

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