A picture in today’s Times shows a tangle of cables as David Baddiel and Frank Skinner recorded their first World Cup podcast (a separate website incidentally). I wish that amidst all the kit, someone had spent a little time normalising the audio. The level of the first recording is really low. With the volume at the maximum and listening on headphones, it’s only just audible.
The first edition very much sounds like it was recorded on a Sunday morning. Very laid back and relaxed.
But I think that The Guardian’s one with Football Italia’s very own James Richardson has it. It takes a more serious line – not completely serious, just more serious than Baddiel and Skinner.