Latest Great britain Podcast Episodes
Hiding in City Centre: The Cheapside Hoard
Yesterday's London Times - May 03, 2024 16:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings“Is it worth anything to you, guv’nor?” It’s boots on the street in city centre as we pinball through time … from the 1600s, to 1912, to current day. We’ll think and wonder about how unknown treasures might exist even in the heart of an urban area. Along the way we’ll … park ourselves in Che...
The King Is Back and So Are We
Royally Obsessed - May 02, 2024 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsAfter a week off, we're baaaack! And so is the King, who stepped out for his first royal engagement in nearly three months—fittingly, to a cancer center. We're discussing what's next for Charles, plus Prince Harry's upcoming trips to London and Africa, a couple of royal cousin birthdays...
#112 The Commonwealth Games Scotland On Standby
Anything but Footy - April 28, 2024 23:00 - 24 minutesThe Commonwealth Games are "dying out a little bit unfortunately"- the view of proud Scottish world champion Beth Potter - who competed in Glasgow in 2014 in athletics and won Team Scotland’s first medal in the triathlon in the sunshine in Sutton Park in Birmingham in 2022. But since that superb ...
#111 Paris 2024 3 Months To Go!
Anything but Footy - April 25, 2024 23:00 - 39 minutesThe countdown continues to Paris 2024 - and we're en-route! We'll probably use satnav and gps to get us to our destination this summer, so it's right that the Olympic movement has said it wants to be front and centre and leading the way in ensuring AI benefits sport and isn't detrimental. We've b...
Alice Dearing in her own words
Anything but Footy - April 24, 2024 23:00 - 23 minutesThe Team GB history maker is stepping away from competitive swimming. 27 year old Alice Dearing became the first black woman to swim for TeamGB at an Olympic Games. She also set up the Black Swimming Association to diversify her sport and keep encouraging everyone to learn to swim - a basic life ...
Listen Now: The Price of Paradise
British Scandal - April 21, 2024 23:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWhen ex-Bunny girl Jayne Gaskin spots the desert island of her dreams for sale online, she decides to risk it all. Trading in their English village home, Jayne and her family relocate to their own private paradise, just off the coast of Nicaragua. And a reality TV crew follows them to f...
#71 Great British Bosses - Leslie Rance
Anything but Footy - April 21, 2024 23:00 - 24 minutesIt's back in the Olympics in 4 years time and we're pretty good at it! But the return is still so fresh, we don't really know how it'll all work! Also getting their head around it is British Lacrosse, the national co-ordinating body for men and women's elite lacrosse in the UK. And as a brand new...
Let Them Eat Jam!
Royally Obsessed - April 18, 2024 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsA trip to the pub with Carole, a jam mailer, back to work for William, plus the Obamas, Ted Lasso and James Middleton: This week is a grab bag of fun royal news. There's also another mega Diana auction happening soon + more Sussex Netflix shows on the horizon. Grab a scone (or some rosé...
Hitler's Angel | Bright Young Fascist | 1
British Scandal - April 16, 2024 23:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIt’s 1932, and aristocratic beauty Diana Guinness is the belle of high society London. But her world - and her marriage - are turned upside down when she meets alluring politician, Oswald Mosley. Together they become a very dangerous double act. And Diana is forced to choose between fri...
#110 Paris 2024 100 days to go!
Anything but Footy - April 16, 2024 23:00 - 36 minutesThe flame is burning, the biggest British team so far has been named by Team GB, and it’s 100 days to go! Just your average week during Olympic year, as John and Michael round up all the latest Paris 2024 news! We’re joined by some of the 33 British swimmers confirmed by Team GB - hear from our r...
#70 Great British Bosses - Jack Buckner, Hugh Brasher & Paul Foster
Anything but Footy - April 15, 2024 15:30 - 18 minutesUK Athletics has officially teamed up with the London Marathon and Great Run Company to create a new major events company, and deliver world class athletics events. UKA CEO Jack Buckner has told us it'll help fix some of the financial issues of the organisation. 'Athletic Ventures' will deliver...
Andrew's Near-Accident + Our Scoop Review
Royally Obsessed - April 11, 2024 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsWelcome back! In this week's episode, we have a full review of ‘Scoop,’ the Netflix movie about Prince Andrew's Newsnight interview, plus how he nearly ran over a dog this week. Also, how Sophie and Edward are carrying the torch for the King, Rachel's upcoming trip to London, a flashbac...
Noel and Liam | Radio legend Steve Lamacq on the most chaotic interview of his career | 4
British Scandal - April 09, 2024 23:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn 1997, Steve Lamacq thought he was interviewing Noel Gallagher live on Radio 1. So he was delighted when Liam turned up too. He knew the brothers could be unpredictable, but he didn’t know that this interview would go down in Oasis history. Their alcohol-fulled, expletive-filled argum...
#109 Paris 2024 Aquatics GB Olympic & Paralympic trials
Anything but Footy - April 07, 2024 22:50 - 38 minutesAquatics GB swimming championships were dubbed the first fully integrated Olympic and Paralympic trials for Paris this summer - and what a show from the British swimmers! Adam Peaty Matt Richards Duncan Scott Freya Colbert Abbie Wood Kathleen Dawson Anna Hopkin Alice Tai and Stephen Clegg are ju...
#69 Great British Bosses - Joel Lavery
Anything but Footy - April 05, 2024 08:57 - 21 minutesIt's dubbed the biggest global networking event in sport and it's in right here in the UK in Birmingham - the home of the last, and what could be the very last, Commonwealth Games in 2022. The week-long Sport Accord World Sport and Business Summit is supported by the International Olympic Committ...
King Charles Risen
Royally Obsessed - April 04, 2024 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsHappy Easter! This week, it's back to royal business-as-usual with the royals attending Easter services at St. George's Chapel...or is it? There's also the new Netflix movie 'Scoop' about Prince Andrew's infamous interview, a King Charles x Burberry collab, Meghan's sweet storytime, an ...
Listen Now: Scamfluencers
British Scandal - April 04, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsTo anyone who grew up in the 2000s, Martha Stewart is probably more famous for going to jail than for her pumpkin pie. But there’s so much more to her story. And her saga lets us crack into the value of women’s work, the shifting nature of celebrity over the 2000s, and the most American...
Noel and Liam | Look Back in Anger | 3
British Scandal - April 02, 2024 23:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWhen Noel tells a journalist he’s leaving Oasis, Liam feels like he’s losing control. If the band is going down, he wants to be the one to call time on it. But in reality neither brother has control over the future of Oasis. Because their bandmates have had enough of the feuding. They w...
Aquatics GB more than just a new name
Anything but Footy - March 28, 2024 12:06 - 19 minutesOne of the most successful Olympic and Paralympic sports in this country is changing its name to better reflect what the organisation does. British Swimming is now Aquatics GB, with the five disciplines of swimming, diving, para-swimming, artistic swimming and water polo. The organisation is also...
Easter, Kate and Our 200th Episode (!) + Special Guest Elizabeth Holmes
Royally Obsessed - March 28, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsWhere do we go from here? This week, the ladies sit down with bestselling author and journalist Elizabeth Holmes, whom they’ve shared quite a few royal moments with, to unpack Princess Catherine’s statement from last week and reflect on the monarchy’s future as it undergoes one of the i...
Noel and Liam | The Battle of Britpop | 2
British Scandal - March 27, 2024 00:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIt’s 1995 and Noel and Liam have a new enemy. But this time it’s not each other. The brothers have put aside their differences to face Britpop band, Blur, in the UK’s most intense chart battle for thirty years. The country is holding its breath as the groups prepare to release singles o...
Bonus Episode: Kate's Cancer Announcement
Royally Obsessed - March 22, 2024 21:25 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsRoRos, we wanted to record an update regarding the Princess of Wales's recent announcement that she has cancer and is undergoing preventative chemotherapy. We, like we're sure so many of you, were devastated and utterly heartbroken to hear this news, especially in light of the rampant s...
It's Kate to See You! + Special Guest Charles Spencer
Royally Obsessed - March 21, 2024 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsThis week, we're beyond honored and privileged to welcome Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer and Princess Diana's brother, to the pod to discuss his new book, ‘A Very Private School: A Memoir.’ Also this week: Catherine, caught on camera! American Riviera Orchard has arrived—and we'v...
Noel and Liam | Rock 'n' Roll Star | 1
British Scandal - March 20, 2024 00:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsMatt Forde is back! He joins Alice Levine to delve into one of the rockiest relationships in music history. The story of two brothers who went from sharing a bedroom at their mum’s house to becoming one of the world’s most successful bands. But their feud was almost as famous as their t...
#108 Paris 2024 Great Gymnastics & Goodbyes
Anything but Footy - March 19, 2024 11:33 - 42 minutesIt could've been a new and old type podcast, but we're 'en-route to Paris 2024' so it feels only right to cerebrate the great gymnastics in Liverpool and say a great goodbye to a legend! 20 yo Ondine Achampong is the new women's all round champion and three time gold medalist after a brilliant Br...
Princess Panic & Palace Faux Pas + Special Guest Ellie Hall
Royally Obsessed - March 14, 2024 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsWe're back—and so is the chaos that is the royal news of late. To help us untangle everything re: Kate Middleton, conspiracy theories, the Palace PR machine and more, we turned to royal journalist Ellie Hall, whose recent reporting for Harvard's Neiman Lab (link below) offers a comprehe...
How to kill a shark to stay alive - Knox-Johnston on what it took to win the Golden Globe | 4
British Scandal - March 13, 2024 00:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsSir Robin Knox-Johnston was the only sailor to finish the Golden Globe Race. When he returned home after ten months at sea, he donated his winnings to the Crowhurst family. Sir Robin takes Alice inside his epic voyage, from the reality of fixing his boat in shark-infested waters, to fac...
#107 Paris 2024 Thumbs Up For Games
Anything but Footy - March 12, 2024 15:46 - 34 minutesEn-route to Paris 2024 and no doubt there's a few bumps in the road to come, but a big thumbs up from the International Olympic Committee this week for the Paris 2024 organisers. Parisians maybe yet to be persuaded but the Games will be a huge success. We hear about 2 more British boxers who'll b...
Delight and Surprise: Super Fans of the London Underground
Yesterday's London Times - March 08, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsProviding up to 5 million passenger journeys a day, the London Underground is integral to the city's infrastructure. It's impossible to imagine how the city would function without it. But why would something built for purpose become a source of admiration and entertainment? A Transport for Lon...
Making Live Sport Matter
Anything but Footy - March 06, 2024 14:43 - 21 minutesPlans have been revealed to start the process of trying to bring the Tour de France back, as well as the World Athletics Championships, to this country. The announcement of 70 global events in 32 sports inc 18 World Championships was made at the London Stadium in Stratford by UK Sport - the Gover...
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