ttps://runoutpodcast.com/index.php/2021/03/22/runout-58-dave-graham-goes-off/DG telling stories and being amusing. Skip the first 20 mins or so if you don't want to hear Andrew Bisharat and Chris Calous just chatting.
Sideways on BBC Sounds - covers all sorts of topics in an interesting and entertaining way without being overly sensationalist.
[quote author=TobyD link=topic=29949.msg641610#msg641610 date=1627922880If I haven't mentioned it before, The Rest is History is brilliant, and if I have, it's worth restating, especially the recent episode on the modern Olympics, which is full of great trivia and some interesting more serious historical observation.
The first "Fall of Rome" season was good too - I had never really realised the scale of the economy and it's importance to the empire's stability (bulk, subsidised movement of commodities across continents allowed urbanisation and specialisation), and how disruption to that made a lot o large settlements unsupportable (large towns in Britain etc disappeared very quickly once we became untethered). I just had a vague feeling that barabarians were to blame!
If I haven't mentioned it before, The Rest is History is brilliant, and if I have, it's worth restating, especially the recent episode on the modern Olympics, which is full of great trivia and some interesting more serious historical observation.
Quote from: TobyD on August 02, 2021, 05:48:00 pmIf I haven't mentioned it before, The Rest is History is brilliant, and if I have, it's worth restating, especially the recent episode on the modern Olympics, which is full of great trivia and some interesting more serious historical observation.I've found these slightly hit and miss, depending on the subject. However the two part-er on Hitler with his biographer Ian Kershaw was excellent.
they all write most of the match report by 60 minutes through the game as it has to be filed so quickly; it's then a total nightmare if the game changes in the last third.