Mark Steadman
My mum thinks I’m an internet thought leader. I haven’t had the heart to tell her I just have a microphone and some good intentions.
Appears in 59 Episodes
Top 5 point-and-click adventure games
Developer of horror video games including Butterfly Collector, Valerie Paris joins Mark to discuss point-and-click adventure games you’ll remember, and one or two you’...
Top 5 tips for working in the creative sector
Mark is joined by the Creative Director at Worcester-based design, branding and development agency WeAreBeard, Dave Webb, to share his top tips for working in the kind...
Top 5 time-travel romance films
Time-travel films are often about fixing the big things, so says this week’s guest, Karl Hodge, but time-travel romance films address the small things that keep us awa...
Top 5 people from Birmingham
This week’s guest is musician, DJ and producer Kevin Kerr, and on the list is top people from Birmingham in the UK, or as we have them, Brummies.Follow @RustyNailsBeat...
Top 5 moments of anarchism
This week’s guest is Liam Barrington-Bush, a Bristol-based activist who helps organisations think more like people, and has loads of real-world experience of how peopl...
Top 5 golden-age arcade games
Today Mark is talking the golden age of arcade games, which ran from 1979 til around 1983. Mark and Nick start with their own childhood arcade memories, and Mark gets ...
Spooky stories: Part 2
Mark is joined once more by Cat Turner and Tom Clabon to swap spooky stories. If you haven’t already checked out part one, you can do so now.
Spooky stories: Part 1
List Envy is back in the new year with a new slate of guests and lists. To get us back into the spirit, Mark called up previous guests Cat Turner and Tom Clabon to swa...
Top 5 UK garden birds
Mark chats with casual birder Suzy Buttress about features, song and flight.Suzy has specific criteria she uses to judge the quality of birds (which makes her a List E...
Top 5 films about computers
Mark is joined by podcaster and self-confessed computer nerd Nick Moreton, to talk about films where people talk about mainframes and UNIX systems.There are quite a fe...
Top 5 Bond villains
We look down the barrel of a gun, at a besuited comedy magician called Thom Peterson. He enters centre-frame, aims his gun and fires. Red washes over the screen. Fade ...
Top 5 journalism films
Mark gets to the truth, with political podcaster Karin Robinson, as they share their lists of films about the people who keep the presses running.Karin hosts the Prima...
Top 5 geek things that aren’t geeky
Comedy writer and performer Steve Dawson gets nerdy — but not really that nerdy — and talks about the culture and stereotypes around the word “geek”. But also there’s ...
Top 5 types of graphics most often misread
Mark gets political and data-visual with data visualisation expert, Alberto Cairo.Alberto has a journalism degree and worked as a graphic designer for many years. He n...
Top 5 ways to eat potatoes
Newsletter editor, event organiser and podcast wonder Arielle Nissenblatt joins Mark to discuss an often maligned tuber.Arielle grew up almost exclusively on potatoes,...
Top 5 literary heroines
Mark is joined by one half of the literary podcast Your Own Words, voracious reader and Danish furniture fan, Becky Graham, to swap notes on badass women from the prin...
Top 5 under-appreciated female authors
Writer and podcaster Sara-Mae Tuson kicks off a double-bill of brilliant women in literature. This week, Mark and Sara-Mae discuss under-appreciated female authors.Sar...
Top 5 Cannon films
Thrill to the sounds of podcaster and movie-lover Ben Smith, sharing his top five shlockbusters with Mark Steadman. You won’t believe your ears! List Envy, in select t...
Top 5 Eurovision Song Contest finals from the '00s
TV writer Mike McComb joins Mark to discuss the bizarre and beautiful magic of this European musical tradition. Enjoy this episode, and don’t forget to have a drink on...
Top 5 rebooted Doctor Who episodes
Mark gets wobbly-wobbly and timey-wimey with tech YouTuber George Chachanidze.The pair started by discussing their favourite incarnations of the Doctor, and then their...