Words Fail Me Podcast 2 - Feb 2010

Back agian! The second Words Fail Me podcast has been recorded and is now available on Podbean and itunes.

Each month we read a page of the dictionary, this month randomly chosen by film critic Mark Kermode.

In the second episode we discuss film with Mark Kermode, Dave tries to sing again - this time with a cold, we mention religion several times, and we correct the errors from show 1.

Podcast available through itunes (http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/words-fail-me/id352409134) or on Podbean (http://wordsfailme.podbean.com/2010/02/24/words-fail-me-2-feb-2010/), on the Podbean Page just right click the "Audio MP3" button and "save as" to download.

Again thanks to Kat and Chris of The Shadow Orchestra for use of the music, find out more at http://www.shadoworchestra.com/and http://www.myspace.com/theshadoworchestra

Comedy star lined up to open dictionary...

The excellent comedian (or comedienne, as she refers to herself on her site) Jo Caulfield has agreed to open the dictionary for us for a future Words Fail Me podcast!

We hate to ruin the surprise but we did want to mention it while she is still on the road, as by the time our podcast is recorded Jo's Won't Shut Up UK tour will be almost over.

Jo Caulfield has been doing stand up for over 12 years now, and is best known (well, in our house anyway) for her BBC radio comedy series It's That Jo Caulfield Again. She has also appeared on TV's Mock The Week and Have I Got News For You, as well as many radio panel games and also on Radio 2.

In fact the list of her accomplishments is almost endless, and you can find plenty more about Jo on her website www.jocaulfield.com. We are honoured that she has agreed to open the dictionary for Words Fail Me!

Dictionary opening update

We have secured an exciting guest to open the dictionary for us on this months Words Fail Me podcast... BBC 5live's film critic, and BBC2 Culture Show presenter Mark Kermode!

Despite being a film critic Mark is no stranger to opening books, so hopefully he will pick a great page for us to discuss later this month, and in fact his very own book It's Only A Movie is out in paperback tomorrow.

More about Mark Kermode, his book and book tour below, thanks to everyone who downloaded episode one of the podcast, and please email your feedback to wordsfailmepodcast@gmail.com.

Mark Kermode has been named by The Screen Directory (alongside Barry Norman, Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert) as one of the 'Top Ten Film Critics of All Time' and continues to attract dedicated followers across the UK.

In It’s Only A Movie, (published to tie in with the 2010 Oscars and Bafta season) Kermode takes us on a whirlwind journey through his life in film – an irreverent and insightful guide to a mind obsessed with cinema.

What happens when you spend most of your childhood in acinema?

Can you really learn about the world by watching triple-bills ofConquest of the Planet of the Apes, Slade in Flame and Krakatoa: East of Java?

Or does it mean that movies become more real than 'real life'?

In It's Only a Movie the UK's leading film critic Mark Kermode considers all of these questions, drawing on scenes from his life that he remembers with cinematic clarity - getting shot at while interviewing Werner Herzog in the Hollywood Hills, being handbagged by Helen Mirren at the Bafta Awards ceremony, and being thrown out of the Cannes Film Festival for heckling in very bad French.

Whether reflecting on why he was punched for writing a bad review of Blue Velvet or rueing the day he spent travelling through Russia in a broken-down Lada on the trail of the low-budget horror movie Dark Waters, Mark Kermode has written a hilarious account of a life obsessed with film that will appeal to anyone who's ever wondered 'Who would play me in the film of my life?'

Also catch Mark on his tour of the UK starting in Southampton on the 6th of February and visiting many Picturehouse and Independent cinemas around the country until he concludes at the Bath Literacy Festival on the 2nd March.