Podcasts by List Envy
High Fidelity meets Bullseye in this funny and fascinating list-building podcast. Each week, host Mark Steadman talks to a new guest, and together they collaborate on a top-five list, with the topic chosen by the guest.
Some episodes will have you screaming into your earbuds asking “why did Mark pick that?”, while others give you a whole new world to explore. Subjects range from science and tech, to food, travel, pop culture and the human mind.
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46: Top 5 modern indie bands from 2021-05-31T23:00
Indie music blogger Kamala Adams joins Mark to discuss all things modern indie, and to define what “modern” means.
Kamala’s picks
In order of discussion:
Porrid...
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45: Top 5 albums of 2020 from 2021-05-24T23:00
Mark talks vinyl and hunts down new music to enjoy, with music podcaster Elliott Farrar.
Elliott’s picks
In order of discussion:
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Top 5 British sitcoms of the 1970s from 2021-05-05T09:24:35.250047
Writer and Internet raconteur Jon Bounds joins Mark to build a list close to his heart.
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Top 5 competitive solo beatboxers from 2021-05-05T09:24:35.245658
Prepare to have your face melted clean off as you enter a whole new world of mouth noise, with guest Tani Levitt. And remember, if you’re sitting in the plash zone, you will get spittle all over yo...
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Top 5 long-haul destinations from 2021-05-05T09:24:35.244926
Mark takes flight with speaker, author and “the entrepreneur’s godmother” Alison Edgar, to build a list of the best places it takes too long to fly to.
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Top 5 90s kids’ cartoons from 2021-05-05T09:24:35.240008
Mark and his guest Jamie Garner have snuck out of bed, crept downstairs and turned on the telly for a channel-hop through ‘90s nostalgia.
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Top 5 Christmas songs from 2021-05-05T09:24:35.236090
The Christmas season begins with Mark talking to Daz Wright of Moselele, about the best songs to ring in the festivities.
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Top 5 Cannon films from 2021-05-05T09:24:35.232475
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 theatres now.
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Top 5 types of graphics most often misread from 2021-05-05T09:24:35.228242
Mark gets political and data-visual with data visualisation expert, Alberto Cairo.
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Top 5 Bond villains from 2021-05-05T09:24:35.224100
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 to black.
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Top 5 golden-age arcade games from 2021-05-05T09:24:35.220758
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 quizzical about the American q...
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Top 5 rewards of urban walking from 2021-05-05T09:24:35.216242
Uncovering the joys of a good stretch of the legs.
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Top 5 ways to procrastinate from 2021-04-27T02:00
Mark is joined by super-talented singer-songwriter Bryony Williams. Bryony realised she could sing in her early teens, and spent most of her mid-to-late teens honing her craft. At nineteen she was ...
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44: Top 5 ways to procrastinate from 2021-04-27T00:00
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Bryony Williams
Your favourite rockstar with a watergun, once compared to a young Fiona Apple.
Top 5 positive tech developments for musicians from 2021-04-20T02:00
Mark kicks off a music mini-season with artist manager Ella Gregg, who's been supporting emerging music artists since she was a teenager.
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43: Top 5 positive tech developments for musicians from 2021-04-20T00:00
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Ella Gregg
Founder of artist management and development company 321 Artists.
Top 5 fictional librarians from 2021-03-30T02:00
Many people are intrigued by the depiction of their profession in popular fiction, and none more so than librarians, like this week's guest.
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42: Top 5 fictional librarians from 2021-03-30T00:00
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Owen Stephens
Librarian. “What else is there to say?”
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Top 5 biopics from 2021-03-23T01:00
Mark and podcaster + web developer Aaron Conway rank the best films about real people.
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Top 5 subtly life-changing non-fiction books from 2021-03-16T01:00
Journalist Eliza Lita is a self-confessed bookworm, but her early reading focused more on non-fiction work. As a result, she's picked up a wide variety of useful knowledge, and kept her curiosity a...
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40: Top 5 subtly life-changing non-fiction books from 2021-03-16T00:00
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Eliza Lita
Europe Editor for The Meridian magazine. Top writer in Books and Reading on Medium.
39: Top 5 rewards of urban walking from 2021-03-02T00:00
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Sue Burlton
Paediatric ICU nurse passionate about her career and her children.
Top 5 point-and-click adventure games from 2021-02-23T01:00
Developer of horror video games Valerie Paris joins Mark to discuss point-and-click adventure games you'll remember, and one or two you'll never forget.
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38: Top 5 point-and-click adventure games from 2021-02-23T00:00
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Valerie Paris
Creator of games, immersive media, and broken dreamthings.
Top 5 tips for working in the creative sector from 2021-02-16T01:00
How to survive in a world where your parents told you to have a fallback job, in case the dream didn't work out.
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37: Top 5 tips for working in the creative sector from 2021-02-16T00:00
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David Webb
Creative Director at WeAreBeard.
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Top 5 time-travel romance films from 2021-01-26T01:00
It's About Time to take the Time Traveller's Wife Back to the Future Lake House. Warning: Safety Not Guaranteed.
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36: Top 5 time-travel romance films from 2021-01-26T00:00
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Karl Hodge
University Course Director, and former tech journalist, currently researching VR and narrative.
Top 5 people from Birmingham from 2021-01-19T01:00
Musicians, comedians and chocolatiers make the long list of famous Brummies.
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35: Top 5 people from Birmingham from 2021-01-19T00:00
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Rusty Nails
Musician, DJ, producer, dreamer! One third of Titans of Doom.
Top 5 moments of anarchism from 2021-01-12T01:00
Liam and Mark discuss moments in modern history where people took things over together.
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34: Top 5 moments of anarchism from 2021-01-12T00:00
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Liam Barrington-Bush
Helping keep neighbourhoods undesirable. Hip-hop. Anarchism. Community is the answer.
33: Top 5 golden-age arcade games from 2021-01-05T00:00
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Nicholas Bond
Creator of the Retrogame Deconstruction Zone, focusing on early 1982.
Spooky stories: Part 2 from 2020-12-31T01:00
Tom and Cat rejoin Mark to finish listing terrifying tales.
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32: Spooky stories: Part 2 from 2020-12-31T00:00
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Catherine Turner
Cat presents Cat’s Cabinet of Curiosities with Tom Clabon, a show about conspiracy theories, cults, cryptozoolog...
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Spooky stories: Part 1 from 2020-12-22T01:00
former guests Cat and Tom join Mark to hold torches up to their faces and get scared silly.
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31: Spooky stories: Part 1 from 2020-12-22T00:00
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Catherine Turner
Cat presents Cat’s Cabinet of Curiosities with Tom Clabon, a show about conspiracy theories, cults, cryptozoolog...
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Top 5 UK garden birds from 2020-03-24T17:00:54
Mark chats with casual birder Suzy Buttress about features, song and flight.
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30: Top 5 UK garden birds from 2020-03-24T16:00
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Suzy Buttress
Birdwatcher, nature lover, and host of the Casual Birder podcast.
Top 5 films about computers from 2020-03-10T17:00:58
Mark is joined by podcaster and self-confessed computer nerd Nick Moreton, to talk about films where people talk about mainframes and UNIX systems.
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29: Top 5 films about computers from 2020-03-10T16:00
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Nick Moreton
Coder, teacher, punk, tea lover.
28: Top 5 Bond villains from 2020-03-03T16:00
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Thom Peterson
Humour, mystery and downright stupid stuff! That’s his middle name….erm…..names.
Top 5 journalism films from 2020-02-25T17:00:35
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.
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27: Top 5 journalism films from 2020-02-25T16:00
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Karin Robinson
Host of the Primarily: 2020 podcast. Former Democrats Abroad UK Vice Chair. Edelman UK Planning Director. Mum. Cat lady.
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No episode klaxon from 2020-02-20T19:00
No episode this week due to technical issues. We should be back and podcasting again in a week or so, but if you’re interested in the many and varied problems Mark’s had trying to get the laters...
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Top 5 geek things that aren’t geeky from 2020-02-11T17:00:47
Comedy writer and performer Steve Dawson gets nerdy — but not really that nerdy — and talks about the culture and stereotypes around the word “geek”.
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26: Top 5 geek things that aren’t geeky from 2020-02-11T16:00
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Steve Dawson
Writer (Walliams & Friend, Saturday Night Takeaway, Big School, Dawson Bros Funtime, Mitchell and Webb), Director (Groove ...
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25: Top 5 types of graphics most often misread from 2020-02-04T16:00
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Alberto Cairo
Knight Chair at the University of Miami. New book: “How Charts Lie” (WW Norton). Previous: “The Truthful Art” (2016). Consult...
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Top 5 ways to eat potatoes from 2020-01-28T17:00:38
Newsletter editor, event organiser and podcast wonder Arielle Nissenblatt joins Mark to discuss an often maligned tuber.
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24: Top 5 ways to eat potatoes from 2020-01-28T16:00
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Arielle Nissenblatt
Founder of the Earbuds Podcast Collective, co-creator of the Outlier Podcast Festival, a lover of license plates and ro...
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Top 5 literary heroines from 2020-01-21T17:00:01
Mark is joined by one half of the literary podcast Your Own Words, Becky Graham, to swap notes on badass women from the printed page.
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23: Top 5 literary heroines from 2020-01-21T16:00
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Becky Graham
Co-host of the podcast Your Own Words.
Top 5 under-appreciated female authors from 2020-01-14T17:00:41
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.
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22: Top 5 under-appreciated female authors from 2020-01-14T16:00
Guest
Sara-Mae Tuson
Writer of young adult novels, producer for a boutique podcast company, copywriter and editor.
21: Top 5 Cannon films from 2020-01-07T16:00
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Ben Smith
He solves the puzzles and bakes the cookies. Co-host of the EuroWhat? podcast.
Top 5 Eurovision Song Contest finals from the '00s from 2019-12-17T17:00:35
TV writer Mike McComb joins Mark to discuss the bizarre and beautiful magic of this European musical tradition.
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20: Top 5 Eurovision Song Contest finals from the '00s from 2019-12-17T16:00
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Mike Mccomb
Mike has been writing about TV online since 2008, when he started the blog WTF Little House on the Prairie? The blog was a proj...
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Top 5 rebooted Doctor Who episodes from 2019-12-10T17:00:07
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 favourite — or leas...
19: Top 5 rebooted Doctor Who episodes from 2019-12-10T16:00
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George Chachanidze
Host of the Snappy-Tech YouTube channel.
18: Top 5 Christmas songs from 2019-12-03T16:00
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Daz Wright
Every ounce of his being is focussed on discussing video games, cats and the popular music of the day. He live in Moseley in Bir...
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Top 5 things we’re leaving behind from 2019-11-26T17:00:37
Fellow podcaster Jon Hickman joins Mark to cast aside things from our adolescence that we can get by just as well without.
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17: Top 5 things we’re leaving behind from 2019-11-26T16:00
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Jon Hickman
Host of You Don’t Look Like a Runner, Thread, and Beware of the Leopard. Writer at Paradise Circus, ...
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Top 5 fruits from 2019-11-19T17:00:35
Everyone can stand to be a little bit more banana, so this week’s guest is professional clown, public speaker and banana enthusiast, Emma Stroud.
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16: Top 5 fruits from 2019-11-19T16:00
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Emma Stroud
Lover of all things fun. Like making people laugh and think. Enjoy being a clown. Plus a speaker.
Top 5 algorithms that changed the world from 2019-11-12T17:00:51
Mark gets mathematical with bayesian mathematician Sophie Carr.
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15: Top 5 algorithms that changed the world from 2019-11-12T16:00
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Dr Sophie Carr
World’s most interesting mathematician and #Queenof Statistics winner. Owner of Bays Consulting. Loves Bayesian statistics.<...
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14: Top 5 90s kids’ cartoons from 2019-11-05T16:00
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Jamie Garner
He can count, He can read and he can cook. The original triple threat.
Top 5 movie monsters from 2019-10-29T17:00:15
The show gets #spoopy as the Thrilling Adventure Hour’s Ben Blacker joins Mark to count down his top five silver-screen terrors.
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13: Top 5 movie monsters from 2019-10-29T16:00
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Ben Blacker
Writer of Hex Wives, co-creator of the Thrilling Adventure Hour, producer of the Dead Pilots podcast and host of the Writers’ P...
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Bonus episode from 2019-10-25T15:00
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Adam Juniper
An Adam of all trades, master of some: Drone pilot and author, photo/tech publisher, sardonic wit and astronaut (possibly). Listen
Top 5 gadgets from the early 21st century from 2019-10-22T17:00:57
Technology writer and drone expert Adam Juniper joins Mark to discuss machines that go bleep.
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12: Top 5 gadgets from the early 21st century from 2019-10-22T15:00
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Adam Juniper
An Adam of all trades, master of some: Drone pilot and author, photo/tech publisher, sardonic wit and astronaut (possibly). Listen
Top 5 products that moved humanity forwards from 2019-10-15T17:00:54
Mark speaks down-the-line with product designer, Simon Heap, as the two share their top five world-changing products, and gently collide over what can be construed a “product”.
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11: Top 5 products that moved humanity forwards from 2019-10-15T15:00
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Simon Heap
Director of Rugged Interactive, Cornish innovative sport design firm and maker of fitness equipment for everyone – Olympians, bi...
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10: Top 5 long-haul destinations from 2019-10-08T15:00
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Alison Edgar
Sales and marketing adviser, as seen on BBC One Breakfast. Dyslexic Amazon #1 Best Seller, award winning sales trainer and coa...
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9: Top 5 competitive solo beatboxers from 2019-10-01T15:00
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Tani Levitt
Podcast producer for 247 Sports, host of SpeshFX, goofball extraordinaire.
Top 5 latin boogaloo albums from 2019-09-24T17:00:18
This week, Mark embarks on a journey of musical discovery, with Oliver Wang, co-host of the Heat Rocks podcast. If you’re not familiar with latin boogaloo, it’s time to get acquainted.
Oli...
8: Top 5 latin boogaloo albums from 2019-09-24T15:00
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Oliver Wang
Culture writer, sociology professor, disk junkie. Author of Legions of Boom and co-host of Heat Rocks.
Top 5 bands from Birmingham from 2019-09-17T17:00:51
Musician, writer and improv comedian Tom Clabon joins Mark to fight about which of Birmingham’s bands are best, and possibly what the word “definitive” means.
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7: Top 5 bands from Birmingham from 2019-09-17T15:00
Musician, writer and improv comedian Tom Clabon joins Mark to fight about which of Birmingham’s bands are best, and possibly wh...
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Top 5 pop punk bands of the 2000s from 2019-09-10T17:00:22
Musician and podcaster Brendan Hutchins joins Mark to discuss guitar music from the early 21st century.
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6: Top 5 pop punk bands of the 2000s from 2019-09-10T15:00
Musician and podcaster Brendan Hutchins joins Mark to discuss guitar music from the early 21st century.
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5: Top 5 British sitcoms of the 1970s from 2019-09-03T15:00
Writer and Internet raconteur Jon Bounds joins Mark to build a list close to his heart.
Jon grew up on 70s sitcoms and ...
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Top 5 British foods from 2019-08-27T17:00:31
Mark talks to podcaster and “unapologetic Anglophile” Jen Tierney about the foods eaten and loved by “a nation of shopkeepers”.
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4: Top 5 British foods from 2019-08-27T15:00
Mark talks to podcaster and “unapologetic Anglophile” Jen Tierney about the foods eaten and loved by “a nation of shopkeepers”...
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Top 5 Harry Potter characters from 2019-08-20T17:00:45
Podcaster, improv comedian and Harry Potter superfan Cat Turner collaborates with Mark on a list of the best five characters in JK Rowling’s Hogwarts universe.
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3: Top 5 Harry Potter characters from 2019-08-20T15:00
This week, Mark is joined by podcaster, improv comedian and Harry Potter superfan Cat Turner, to collaborate o...
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Top 5 journeys to scientific discovery from 2019-08-13T17:00:59
Mark speaks with sleep and respiratory scientist Max Thomas, all about science!
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Top 5 childhood toys from 2019-08-13T17:00:40
Improv comedian Lucy Day joins Mark to relive their childhoods and complain about the toys they never had.
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2: Top 5 journeys to scientific discovery from 2019-08-13T15:00
In this first episode, Mark speaks with sleep and respiratory scientist Max Thomas, all about science! Specifically, the unexpe...
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1: Top 5 childhood toys from 2019-08-13T15:00
Improv comedian and self-styled “failed jogger” Lucy Day joins Mark to relive their childhoods and complain about the toys they never had.
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Introducing List Envy from 2019-08-05T23:00
What are your top 5 sandwiches? What’s the best way to rank Bond films? Which are your favourite misheard lyrics? Making lists is good, but it’s better with friends.
This is List Envy<...
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