Shift Run Stop
83 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsShift Run Stop is a free comedy podcast full to the brim with games, geeks and special guests.
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Episode 33: Thom and Myk from Thomyk Podcast
July 01, 2010 20:20 - 27.8 MBGeeky fun beyond your, er, quite wild dreams this week as we chat with the utterly delightful Thom and Myk from the Thomyk podcast about comics, Lego, D&D, dice, and of course podcasting. Snack seer Dave Green divines the most unexpected drinks of the summer, including at least one that's so unexpected, it's not even a [...]
Episode 32: Dan Hon and the Vintage Computer Festival at Bletchley
June 24, 2010 18:24 - 38.3 MBIf you like games you probably already know about games wizard Dan Hon, and even if you don't know him you're bound to have come across his work. Together with his brother Adrian, Dan co-founded Six to Start, the award-winning games company behind teen ARG Smokescreen and involved with loads of [...]
Episode 31: Aeroplanes vs Predators
June 17, 2010 18:34 - 29.4 MBYour hosts catch up after a couple of weeks away from SRS Towers, in this chat-packed reunion episode. Learn how Roo coped with a physical illness at the risk of inducing a mental one by binge-eating a sci-fi box-set with his eye-mouth. Meanwhile, Leila finds a way of combining her new walkie talkies with her [...]
Episode 30: MJ Hibbett
June 10, 2010 19:00 - 31.7 MBA summery episode this week, as a guitar-wielding Mark "MJ" Hibbett swings by to serenade us in the sunshine, and we snack on Southwold's finest seaside fare. Mark is responsible for the world's first internet hit, the gloriously nostalgic vintage computing paean Hey Hey 16K ("What does that get you today?") plus loads of other brilliant [...]
Episode 29: Information Pioneers launch
June 03, 2010 19:04 - 32 MBA rough and ready little episode this week, as our Roo - the edit smarts - has been off on a well-earned holiday (though Roofans relax: his past self does grace this episode - before he left we discussed Red Dead Redemption). And while he was drinking in the Spanish sunshine, Leila and Dave were drinking [...]
Episode 28: Kathy Clugston
May 27, 2010 19:17 - 34.5 MBMellifluous-voiced Kathy reads the news on Radio 4, stars in Scott Mills' 'Posh Radio 4 Lady' segment, plays the 'uke', writes books, loves Twitter, and still finds time to tell you to turn around when possible on your Tom Tom. We had a great chat and she even played a few requests for us. It was [...]
Episode 27: Games Special
May 20, 2010 19:38 - 28.8 MBGames games and more games. And breakfast cereal. In this week's episode we meet two heroes of British gaming at Game Camp, play some video game legends trump cards, eat a wide and frankly terrifying range of breakfast cereals and talk about iPhone games. Keep your datasette peeled for the secret 'datablast' at the [...]
Episode 26: Professor Jon Butterworth
May 13, 2010 19:34 - 40 MBOur guest this week has been keeping a watchful eye on the Large Hadron Collider since it booted up again in March, but luckily he's very well-qualified. In fact, Jon is a Professor of Physics at UCL and via the ATLAS experiment, pushes the boundaries of so-called science over at CERN on a regular [...]
Episode 25: James Wallis
May 06, 2010 19:04 - 36.8 MBThis week we catch up with games publisher James Wallis in the suitably recreational environs of a sunny London park. James is an ambassador for storytelling - his company Magnum Opus Press recently published The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Learn about that, the geography of World of Warcraft, and how to win a World [...]
Episode 24: Isy Suttie
April 29, 2010 18:19 - 36.5 MBWriter-performer Isy Suttie drops in this week. Isy is a hit with geeks everywhere thanks to her role as Peep Show's winsome I.T. worker 'Dobby', but her talents reach far and wide. We discuss her performing career and her personal passions, which include The Office and The Wicker Man - and she plays the piano [...]
Episode 23: Catherine O’Flynn and Peter Fletcher
April 22, 2010 19:58 - 35.3 MBMeet Catherine O'Flynn and Peter Fletcher. Cath's first novel, What Was Lost was set in a shopping centre much like the one where we did this interview. Husband Peter has been documenting his sneezes, and spills the beans (and elastic bands) on what it was like working as a postie. What with magma dragons and [...]
Episode 22: Naomi Alderman
April 15, 2010 18:54 - 37.3 MBAuthor Naomi Alderman drops in this week. You might recognise her name from her award-winning work Disobedience and a new but already highly-acclaimed novel The Lessons, currently 'Book at Bedtime' on Radio 4. But not just that! She's a gee-eek. She really is. She was the lead writer on Perplex City, she's a high-flying games journalist [...]
Episode 21: Lewis Dartnell
April 08, 2010 20:12 - 29 MB"I look for aliens" is how high-flying young astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell describes his work, and we hear the wheres and hows of that search in this week's episode. During the fascinating chat Lewis explains how aliens might resemble anything from bacteria to "sky whales", Roo has a question about methane, and Leila jumps at the [...]
Episode 20: Shazia Mirza
April 01, 2010 18:26 - 28.7 MBComedian and columnist Shazia Mirza drops in for a chat this week and we have a great time hearing about her former life as science teacher, her experience of playing the Edinburgh Festival, and what her parents think about what she does... Dave's similarly-voiced brother Simon joins us too, fresh from the Games Developer's Conference in [...]
Episode 19: Paul Kerensa
March 25, 2010 18:17 - 26.7 MBIt's 25 years of Back to the Future! To celebrate, we're joined by the geeky and innovative stand-up comic, Paul Kerensa, whose 2005 Edinburgh show "Back to the Futon" involved a real-life DeLorean and a Gray's Sports Almanacful of in-jokes. Since then Paul's been focused on collecting and comparing every moment in time from every [...]
Episode 18: Andy Riley
March 18, 2010 18:41 - 34.1 MBOur guest this week is comedy writer and cartoonist Andy Riley, the twisted mind behind the Bunny Suicides books and the Observer's comic strip Roasted, as well as loads of great TV and radio comedy. While we were chatting, Andy drew some amazing cassette cards for us (watch a video of him drawing them and a [...]
Episode 17: Sydney Padua
March 11, 2010 19:41 - 30.7 MBWe chatted with artist Sydney Padua this week. Sydney's animated creations appear in loads of blockbuster movies, but she's a star of the small screen too - you might have seen her extremely funny web comic Babbage and Lovelace doing the rounds lately. With Ada Lovelace Day coming up very soon, Sydney tells us about [...]
Episode 16: Zeb Soanes
March 04, 2010 18:00 - 29.9 MBYou might recognise Zeb's voice from Radio 4 news, continuity announcements and the iconic Shipping Forecast. He's also very funny and, unexpectedly, looks like he should be in a boyband. We also hear about Roo's hobbity holiday in the New Forest and Leila's trip to Decode Lab at the V&A. Dave comes back from India loaded [...]
Episode 15: Phil Gyford
February 25, 2010 18:00 - 32.4 MBPepys blogger, Pretend Office worker and former Aardman animator Phil Gyford was kind enough to not only bring himself to Shift Run Stop towers, but also his Mega Drive. We natter with the Internet's Dave Green about the BAFTA Film Awards (which Roo also went to) and dorkbotlondon (which Leila also went to). Leila meets a previous [...]
Episode 14: Duncan Gough
February 18, 2010 18:00 - 32.6 MBWhat if you could play a game of Friends? Or The Wire? What would that be like? We saw Duncan at Playful 09 and were instantly hooked by his idea that dramatic storytelling and video games could merge in a new interactive concept called "Fictive Worlds". Duncan also shares his experience of developing the first [...]
Episode 13: James Larsson
February 11, 2010 18:31 - 29.5 MBWe love a bit of tech abuse on this podcast, so it's a real pleasure to bring you James Larsson, mad scientist extraordinaire. James hit the headlines on the BBC news site with his most recent project, Boot Fetish Pong, but old-skool listeners might remember seeing his prawn sandwich BBC micro clock back when Dave [...]
Episode 12: Dr Aleks Krotoski
February 04, 2010 21:00 - 26 MBThis week we are lucky enough to be joined by technology broadcaster Aleks Krotoski, known for her work at the Guardian (particularly the Tech Weekly podcast) and most recently for her new four-part prime time BBC Two series, Virtual Revolution. Aleks tells us about some of the leading lights she spoke to on this innovative [...]
Episode 11: Chris Cleave
January 28, 2010 20:57 - 37.3 MBIn this week's fun-packed edition of Shift Run Stop we hear the sounds of ponies, meet real life author, Guardian columnist and dad Chris Cleave, learn about the San Francisco weather system from our foreign correspondent Anna Pickard, get a topical confectionery newsflash from our snacks expert Dave Green and more besides! Something for everyone, [...]
Episode 10: Nick Pope “The Real Fox Mulder”
January 21, 2010 10:28 - 39.3 MBThis week we chat to Nick Pope, the former head of the MOD's UFO project (recently released into the public domain). Nick is a well-respected broadcaster who speaks on all aspects of the unexplained, so it was very nice of him to put up with our incessant questions about the Government's contingency plans for alien [...]
Episode 9: Sarah Angliss and Paul B Davis
January 14, 2010 19:00 - 46.8 MBThis week we were really honoured to talk to two fantastically clever artists who make use of technology in their work. Artist/performer Sarah Angliss has been researching the Uncanny Valley, and we hear about some of the eerie musical experiences she has created, for the Adam Curtis "It Felt Like A Kiss" piece and elsewhere. [...]
Episode 8: Ariane Sherine, Samuel Preston and Alex Preston
January 07, 2010 20:11 - 55.3 MBThis week's episode was tremendous fun. Journalist and comedy writer Ariane Sherine tells us about her new book which features original pieces by everyone from Richard Dawkins to Josie Long. Ariane's now-familiar slogan "There is probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life" was first displayed on London buses in 2008, after thousands [...]
Episode 7: New Year’s Special – Adam Curtis and Avery Edison
December 31, 2009 12:00 - 71.8 MBSo farewell then, 2009. We've had a great time over the last few months and are thrilled to be ending the year with what must be our most thought-provoking episode to date. Film maker Adam Curtis joins us to talk about his latest project, 'It Felt Like a Kiss' and has some brilliant theories on [...]
Episode 6: Christmas Special – Maggie Philbin, LJ Rich, Daniel Maier and Robots
December 24, 2009 12:00 - 57.1 MBWe have an unprecedented number of guests for you in the mystery Christmas package with airholes that is this special festive episode of Shift Run Stop. Maggie Philbin and Click presenter LJ Rich join us to talk about tea, t-shirts and the days of three-channel TV, while comedy writer-performer Daniel Maier regales us with showbiz [...]
Episode 5: Russell Davies
December 10, 2009 22:21 - 34.6 MBThis week we are joined by Russell Davies (the author and organiser of the Interesting conferences) and discover that he was once in a band. We also hear from Karen (wife and nightly documenter of the infamous Sleep Talkin' Man) and eat some festive snacks with Dave Green. Links: Russell Davies (blog public twitter) Egg Bacon Chips and Beans Russell's [...]
Episode 4: Helen and Olly
November 26, 2009 21:18 - 27.1 MBThis week we meet the popular internet and TV stars Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann and ask them about their Answer Me This podcast, Robert Brook and Dave Green taste more South African Snacks with us, Leila, Dave and Tom discuss a film (warning: there might be spoilers, though only if you can work out [...]
Episode 3: David Quantick
November 12, 2009 19:39 - 34.2 MBIn episode three we meet that royalty of the comedy and music worlds, lovely David Quantick and ask him about Doctor Who, Morrissey and making the world's first internet sitcom. We hang out at Playful 2009 and talk to James Bridle about his noughts and crosses calculating matchboxes. We chat to internet personality Robert Brook, [...]
Episode 2: David Schneider
October 29, 2009 21:26 - 44.2 MBWe get to know comedy legend David Schneider, play a game of Scribblenauts and taste some more seasonal snacks with Dave Green. David Schneider on Twitter, IMDb and Wikipedia Scribblenauts snackspot.org.uk - Dave's snack blog
Episode 1: Adam Tandy
October 29, 2009 21:23 - 51.1 MBIn this episode: we chat with Adam Tandy (producer of The Thick Of It and In the Loop), Leila sees How It Is at the Turbine Hall in Tate Modern, we try some really dreadful games and Dave Green introduces us to some of his favourite seasonal snacks. Links: Adam Tandy on Twitter and IMDb The Thick Of [...]