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46: Top 5 modern indie bands
Indie music blogger Kamala Adams joins Mark to discuss all things modern indie, and to define what “modern” means. Kamala’s picks In order of discussion: Porridge R...
45: Top 5 albums of 2020
Mark talks vinyl and hunts down new music to enjoy, with music podcaster Elliott Farrar. Elliott’s picks In order of discussion: Weird!, by Yungblud Elliott picked...
44: Top 5 ways to procrastinate
Guest Bryony Williams Your favourite rockstar with a watergun, once compared to a young Fiona Apple. @bryonywilliams | Linktree twitter.com Mark i...
43: Top 5 positive tech developments for musicians
Guest Ella Gregg Founder of artist management and development company 321 Artists. twitter.com 321 artists Mark kicks off a music mini-season with...
42: Top 5 fictional librarians
Guest Owen Stephens Librarian. “What else is there to say?” twitter.com Overdue Ideas | Ideas linking Libraries, Computing, E-learning, and anything el...
41: Top 5 biopics
Guest Aaron Conway Co-host of The Third Wheel podcast. Aaron Conway | Developer, Designer, one or the other. The Third Wheel twitter.com Wheth...
40: Top 5 subtly life-changing non-fiction books
Guest Eliza Lita Europe Editor for The Meridian magazine. Top writer in Books and Reading on Medium. Eliza Lita – Editor and freelance journalist ...
39: Top 5 rewards of urban walking
Guest Sue Burlton Paediatric ICU nurse passionate about her career and her children. twitter.com Mark is joined by nature lover and avid walker Sue Bu...
38: Top 5 point-and-click adventure games
Guest Valerie Paris Creator of games, immersive media, and broken dreamthings. twitter.com Valerie Paris - itch.io Developer of horror video games in...
37: Top 5 tips for working in the creative sector
Guest David Webb Creative Director at WeAreBeard. twitter.com WEAREBEARD - Design, branding & development Worcester Mark is joined by the Crea...
36: Top 5 time-travel romance films
Guest Karl Hodge University Course Director, and former tech journalist, currently researching VR and narrative. twitter.com Time-travel films are oft...
35: Top 5 people from Birmingham
Guest Rusty Nails Musician, DJ, producer, dreamer! One third of Titans of Doom. Rusty Nails | Free Listening on SoundCloud twitter.com This week’s...
34: Top 5 moments of anarchism
Guest Liam Barrington-Bush Helping keep neighbourhoods undesirable. Hip-hop. Anarchism. Community is the answer. twitter.com more like people »...
33: Top 5 golden-age arcade games
Guest Nicholas Bond Creator of the Retrogame Deconstruction Zone, focusing on early 1982. twitter.com Retrogame Deconstruction Zone Today Mark is ...
32: Spooky stories: Part 2
Guests Catherine Turner Cat presents Cat’s Cabinet of Curiosities with Tom Clabon, a show about conspiracy theories, cults, cryptozoology, crime and conundrums. ...
31: Spooky stories: Part 1
Guests Catherine Turner Cat presents Cat’s Cabinet of Curiosities with Tom Clabon, a show about conspiracy theories, cults, cryptozoology, crime and conundrums. ...
30: Top 5 UK garden birds
Guest Suzy Buttress Birdwatcher, nature lover, and host of the Casual Birder podcast. The Casual Birder Podcast Suzy Buttress (@suzybee_2) • Instagr...
29: Top 5 films about computers
Guest Nick Moreton Coder, teacher, punk, tea lover. You Don't Look Like A Runner Nick (@NGMoreton) on Twitter Mark is joined by podcaster and ...
28: Top 5 Bond villains
Guest Thom Peterson Humour, mystery and downright stupid stuff! That’s his middle name….erm…..names. Thom Peterson (@AmazingGuyMagic) on Twitter www.Am...
27: Top 5 journalism films
Guest Karin Robinson Host of the Primarily: 2020 podcast. Former Democrats Abroad UK Vice Chair. Edelman UK Planning Director. Mum. Cat lady. Primarily: 20...
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No episode this week due to technical issues. We should be back and podcasting again in a week or so, but if you’re interested in the many and varied problems Mark’s h...
26: Top 5 geek things that aren’t geeky
Guest Steve Dawson Writer (Walliams & Friend, Saturday Night Takeaway, Big School, Dawson Bros Funtime, Mitchell and Webb), Director (Groove Armada, FoD), Host o...
25: Top 5 types of graphics most often misread
Guest Alberto Cairo Knight Chair at the University of Miami. New book: “How Charts Lie” (WW Norton). Previous: “The Truthful Art” (2016). Consultant and freelanc...
24: Top 5 ways to eat potatoes
Guest Arielle Nissenblatt Founder of the Earbuds Podcast Collective, co-creator of the Outlier Podcast Festival, a lover of license plates and roller blading. ...
23: Top 5 literary heroines
Guest Becky Graham Co-host of the podcast Your Own Words. Your Own Words Mark is joined by one half of the literary podcast Your Own Words, voracious ...
22: Top 5 under-appreciated female authors
Guest Sara-Mae Tuson Writer of young adult novels, producer for a boutique podcast company, copywriter and editor. Fable Gazers Season 2: Heyer Today S...
21: Top 5 Cannon films
Guest Ben Smith He solves the puzzles and bakes the cookies. Co-host of the EuroWhat? podcast. Ben Smith (@BenMSmith) | Twitter Thrill to the sou...
20: Top 5 Eurovision Song Contest finals from the '00s
Guest Mike Mccomb Mike has been writing about TV online since 2008, when he started the blog WTF Little House on the Prairie? The blog was a project to practice ...
19: Top 5 rebooted Doctor Who episodes
Guest George Chachanidze Host of the Snappy-Tech YouTube channel. Fundraiser by George Chachanidze : George is smartphone-less for a year! George Chach...
18: Top 5 Christmas songs
Guest Daz Wright Every ounce of his being is focussed on discussing video games, cats and the popular music of the day. He live in Moseley in Birmingham. D...