Words Fail Me Podcast 26 - February 2012

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This month Dave and Neil are back in London, on the day of the BAFTA awards. Sadly our invites were not in the post, so we retreated to a noisy coffee shop in Convent Garden to record this months podcast.



Our Guest dictionary opener this month was Peter Duncan, ex-Blue Peter presenter, actor, and former Chief Scout. He chats to Dave about the Scout Movement, the importance of looking to the future, and the word 'only'.

Dave and Neil then go on to discuss Onions (this is an onion flower by the way), Haggling versus ONO, climbing steps and carefully avoiding the topic of One Night Stands.

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This was the view of the BAFTAs being set up outside the coffee shop.

Thanks to Peter Duncan, his personal website can be found at http://www.heresoneimadeearlier.com and to Talk in Colour for the music, find out where you can see them at http://www.talkincolour.com/

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Words Fail Me Podcast 25 - January 2012

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It may only been a week since the last podcast went online, but we are back already!

In the first podcast of the New Year we visited the Comedy Pub in London, for no other reason than it was raining, and it looked nice and warm and dry.

Dave sorted a brilliant first guest dictionary opener for this month, none other than the magician Paul Daniels.



The interview was recorded just before the painful incident that recently got him in the news. Dave and Paul chat about how to do magic, the Olympics, the joys of being an entertainer and he even teaches Dave a new trick!

We then go on to talk about his chosen page, and the conversation covers topics such as the length of a novel, Super Nova and the concept of Nowhere.



Thanks again to Talk in Colour for the music, and you can find out where you can see Paul Daniels on his website.

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Maybe next year...

As expected the miracle did not materialise and we were not nominated for the Sony Radio Academy Awards.

But all was not lost, as Dave and myself had an excellent time at the nominations ceremony at One Marylebone last night. A fancy venue with fancy high ceilings and fancy small nibbles on trays.

We met some really nice people as well, a guy from Insight Radio who was really interested in our podcast, a big group from BFBS, a FunKids Radio producer, a website designer for the awards itself, and the guys and girls from the Tin Can podcast, who were having as much fun as we were!

Well done to all those who were nominated, the competition was very strong and I think little podcasts like ours were never really going to get a nomination, but it won't stop us trying again next year!

Sony Radio Awards 2011

As you may of heard on the last podcast Words Fail Me has been invited (along with all other entrants) to the Nomination event in London tomorrow night. I am pleased to say that both Dave and myself will be attending the event, and look forward to meeting other podcasters and radio peoples.

The event is coincidently being held in a function suite that used to be the headquarters of the bookshop I worked for, so have been in there maybe a dozen times before - it is certainly a small world!

You can watch the event online, at http://www.radioawards.org/ from 7pm tomorrow night (Wednesday 30th March 2011), keep an eye out for the under dressed out of place looking people, that will be us!