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Edison Research Top 25 UK Podcasts – Q4 2025
Edison Research has just published their Top 25 Podcasts in the UK for Q4 2025. As ever, this chart is based on recall from 2,000 online interviews with weekly podcast listeners in the UK. As ever, I’m going to take the long view on this and show how the chart has changed over time. This…
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Alpe d’Huez
In anticipation of today’s double ascent of Alpe D’Huez, I made this T-shirt last night. I did make a Ventoux one prior to the weekend too – no photos yet though.
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Frances Ha
Frances Ha is a wonderful little film, but it’s almost completely impossible to explain. The story focuses on Frances and her friends, as we see her life as a struggling dancer in New York while she tries to earn enough to pay the rent, and her relationships with those friends. Chief among those friends is…
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Sports on TV… Again
The weekend just gone was a big one in UK sport. Picking up a broadsheet newspaper on Saturday morning left you in no doubt of that. And the first key event was the deciding Lions test in Sydney. Page after page was dedicated to Warren Gatland’s decisions over who to include and who to leave…
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Some Summer Films
I’ve not really written a great deal here about the films I’ve seen recently, and as much as anything, I think that’s because I’ve not been to too many films lately. At least in the cinema. But there are one or two that I’ve caught up with. I should start with Star Trek Into Darkness…
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Reclaiming Radio
For months now, there’s been a document kicking around in my Google Drive entitled – as this blog is – “Reclaiming Radio”. It was effectively common knowledge that Apple was working towards some kind of streaming music offering, and earlier this week, having concluded a deal with the third and final major record label, they…
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Protesters in the West End
It’s all been a bit lively in the West End of London today, with protesters occupying a nearby building in Beak Street, before being forcibly evicted by police. More protesters have been moving about the West End, all followed by large numbers of police (and a not insubstantial number of media). We had something of…
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A Disingenous Newspaper
Yesterday the free UK newspaper, Metro, managed to publish a massive great spoiler on the current series of Game of Thrones. While discussions about current TV series are the meat and drink of newspapers – think of all the articles about who will be the next Doctor Who? However Metro ran this “news story” on…
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Pitchside Advertising
I was out on Sunday evening, and didn’t watch the Brazil v England match live from Brazil, but I did watch the highlights later. Good goals from the Ox and Rooney, but I’ll leave the football alone. I want to talk about the pitchside advertising. As the match kicked off, the pitchside advertising switched from…
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Radio Downloads Added to iPlayer
The BBC has announced that from 2014, listeners will be able to download radio programmes via the various iPlayer mobile and desktop apps to catch up with offline. As with TV, there’ll be a 7 day catch-up window. In some respects, it’s really strange that it has taken this long to get. You’d imagine that…
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A Sunset Walk
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Following Up This Week’s Media Talk Podcast
An otherwise random photo to illustrate this blog I quite enjoyed this week’s Guardian Media Talk podcast, but there were a couple of things that needed highlighting or explaining a little more. The BBC has renewed its complaints with Sky about the £5m a year it pays to get on the Sky platform. There was…
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Comments Fixed… Perhaps
Just a note to say sorry to anyone who spent time commenting here and then saw their words disappear into a black hole claiming I’d be moderating. Something broke, and to be honest it’s all sticking plasters and Sellotape behind the scenes. Anyway, I think it’s working again. And I’ve put live what comments I’ve…
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