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Welcome to the first full episode 2025.  This week Jim melts a microwave, Darren watches Nosferatu and suspects the lord of darkness could easily take Dracula in a punch up, while Lee continues to be haunted by Paul McCartney and he becomes outraged at Ant & Dec. Then after some feedback its on to this weeks film Don't Worry Darling.  Media Discussed This Week Nosferatu - Theatrical Release Tales from the Loop - Amazon Prime Conclave - Apple TV / Theatrical Release / Amazon Prime Ant & Dec's Limitless Win - iTV / iTVX

Introducing a special guest Ant Dec! Ant is the proud creator of 2 meme pages and gives us the background on his journey in the social media world. Go give him and his pages a follow: @Realantdec @Manasquangossip @Hobokengossip --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/uncorkandunwined/support

Sara has tonsillitis - she's on antibiotics and complete vocal rest. She had a fever dream where she was drawn towards the light, but spotted her late grandmother on the other side and fled.So, it's a truncated episode this week (a semisode?): An interview we'd already recorded before she was struck down. And what an interview! It's Andy Milligan, writer of The Sopranos of shiny-floor entertainment TV - Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.Send Firecrotch a get-well-soon email: fuckoff@firecrotchandnormcore.comBuy her a Lucozade: https://www.patreon.com/THEYLIKETOWATCHEdited by Annabel Port, who is in rude health. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

October 22-28, 1994 This week Ken welcomes esteemed writer on all things TV, Emma Fraser to the show. Ken and Emma discuss Fraser vs. "Fraiser", the glory of UK insults, being English, people not believing where you are from, how London is now the UK, Norwich being Alan Partridge central, 1994 being the youth sweet spot, ER, The X-Files, My So-Called Life, ghosts at Christmas time, Supernatural episodes of otherwise non-supernatural TV series, how Ken often accidentally dresses like Nicky Driscoll, the filthy cover of this issue, the UK having more magazines for fewer channels, The Christmas Radio Times, Ken's love of Time Out London, loving Halloween, The Far Side animated series, Ken's dislike of Friends, TV Guide's bad review of Friends, Ant & Dec, Noah Wiley, Ghostwatch, Sightings, how quickly trends blew up in the 90s,  Fox Encounters The Hidden Truth, Without Warning, The Americans, Ken's 90s substitute Teacher becoming an actor and being murdered on The Americans, middle of the road talk shows, Dick Cavett, Mark Lamarr, The Word, drunken people on TV,  Ken's love of Shooting Stars, Ken being constantly called Mark Lamarr when he lived in the UK, Oliver Reed, the UK's strange subversive children's style shows that weren't for children, Car 54, Where Are You?, MTV's Rock n Jock, Red Shoe Diaries, things not being even good bad, SNL, how Witches werewolves and vampires being real, how Marilyn Monroe was killed due to her knowledge of UFOs, when Jackie Gleason saw dead aliens for real, gentle murder, Murder She Wrote, animal shelters Halloween Specials, The Hidden, The George Carlin Show, Fresh Prince, Murphy Brown, Evening Shade, Carol Burnett, Cynthia Gibb, Fact based TV movies, how marrying somebody is the worst thing you can do to them, John Stamos, the business genius of Jason Priestly, The Sandwich Police, visiting the My So-Called Life shooting locations, Ken not thinking Seinfeld holds up, crying and being shocked over and over again due to watching ER, a spoilers free world, Family Matters, the repetition of Dwayne Barry, Step by Step, women at war, Saturday Night Dead, and extending M.A.N.T.I.S noted drama. 

Visuals: https://getbehindthebillboard.com/episode-55-jo-mooreEpisode #55 has a bit of everything.Mostly it has the charming, humble and uber talented Jo Moore, ECD at House 337, discussing her OOH work.In particular we chatted about the domestic violence campaign for Women's Aid that ran during last year's World Cup.“He's coming home” was a chilling reminder of the domestic abuse suffered by women during major tournaments. The poster (and film which is equally brilliant) gained huge publicity and awareness on virtually no budget.It led us to a wider debate on how small but important clients like Women's Aid can get their message across with great creative work.This in turn led us to discuss the spoof fashion campaign ‘Not model's own' for the same client, highlighting the issue of Coercive Control, executed with tact and skill - gaining column inches galore and huge awareness.Next was something completely different: Ant & Dec. And Kraftwerk.Surreal, hilarious, with a lot of red.And then we heard how Jo met Anthony Burrell and got him designing the wonderfully graphic campaign for The Corinthia Hotel.Amidst all this, after about 10 minutes, Dan had to leave the room for a phone call. Jo and Hugh carried on chatting…and chatting…and chatting…Dan never returned until the final credits.We thought he was on an important business call, but it was more important than that - it was a family emergency, which thankfully was resolved.Quite a morning. Quite the episode!Thank you Jo for coming in and taking us behind your billboards. As well as inside your VW van and outdoor swimming. A woman of many parts who barely batted an eyelid as half the Behind the Billboard team left the building ;-)And well done Dan for keeping a cool head in a difficult moment. All in a day's work for my mate Dan. 

After the shocking results from the weekends' Premier League Super Sunday game, the boys recap what went wrong for United, and what went so right for Liverpool. A run down on the other games, including Arsenals' dramatic fightback against Bournemouth to remain top of the league. The European round up is still here, covering La Liga, Bundesliga, a portion of Ligue 1 and Serie A, where high flying Napoli tasted a rare defeat. A special mention to Jose Mourinho for his classic touchline antics. If you needed anymore reasons to tune in to this weeks' episode, listen to the boys' comparisons on who they think they're similar to...#DropThePod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been two years since Ant & Dec brought us on a journey to Australia as we watch celebs eating bugs, grubs and everything in between. 'I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here' has travelled back around the world to the Aussie bush and we caught all the goss from the launch episode in Pamela's Telly.

I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here returned to our screens last night, and on Gift Grub this morning we heard from the hosts, Ant & Dec. Leo Varadkar also stopped by to give his thoughts on Matt Hancock's inclusion in the series, and what he really thinks of politicians tidying up to celebrities.

What does comedy have to do with cyber risk? More than you might think. My guest on this episode Ian Murphy specialises in both, using comedy to produce content that makes people more aware of cyber security risks.Ian is the founder of CyberOff, which in his words “breathes life into cyber security training”. He does that using incredibly compelling content that relies heavily on comedy.During our discussion, we explore how Ian went from being a semi-professional football player via the British Ministry of Defence and then onto CyberOff. On the way, he provides insights about growing up in Liverpool and some very frank views about what's wrong with way many organisations approach cyber risk. What Ian has to say is just as relevant to other contexts like ethics and compliance. To find our more about Ian's work visit https://www.cyberoff.co.uk/To find Ian's content on social media, visit:Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/cyber0ffLinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianmurphy/Twitter — https://twitter.com/CyberOffUKDuring our discussion, we talk about:UK TV quiz show Red or Black -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_or_Black%3FYou can watch some of Ian's appearance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34oA76GbaykTV presenters Ant & Dec who hosted Red or Black - https://www.antanddec.com/Simon Sinek on Leadership - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSUJwmPQEygScouse, the dish that gives Liverpudlians their nickname - https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/speke-hall-garden-and-estate/recipes/scouseA series of sketches called The Scousers by comedian Harry Enfield (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Enfield) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ScousersYou can watch an example of a sketch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaccLMuLa7oAnfield, the home of Ian's football club Liverpool FC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnfieldThe City of Liverpool - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiverpoolSome of Ians' videos:- Password requirements - https://twitter.com/CyberOffUK/status/1529739693784547328?s=20&t=23ts84mnHDzBrkYAXvC-mA- Daniel Radcliffe rap - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ianmurphy_cybersecurity-securityawareness-cyber-activity-6967774282244345856-NJ6i?- Spice Girls theme - https://twitter.com/CyberOffUK/status/1529031999272411138?s=20&t=xrGia5NvbcEqxzJcAiLeaQ- Professor Brian Cox theme - https://twitter.com/CyberOffUK/status/1527207648172589057?s=20&t=xrGia5NvbcEqxzJcAiLeaQ- Rick Ashley theme - https://twitter.com/CyberOffUK/status/1522174477655814145?s=20&t=xrGia5NvbcEqxzJcAiLeaQ

I won't lie, this was like having Ant & Dec on the show BUT whilst at Global Birdfair it was great to sit down & talk with 2 people that have featured on the show before & to simply have a good chin wag about nature. Whilst having 2 people on that are under the category of "THE YOUTH", I wanted to grab the chance to ask Indy & George what it feels like to deal with the climate crisis at an age where they may well directly be impacted by it. If you'd like to keep up to date with Indy & George, you can follow then on social media @GreeneIndy / @GreenFGeorge To follow us on social media visit @intothewildpod for Twitter & @intothewildpodcast for Instagram. You can also find Ryan on @mrryanjdalton Love the show or simply enjoyed this episode? You can buy us a coffee to say ta at https://ko-fi.com/intothewildpod MERCH: intothewildpodcast.teemill.com Into The Wild is your weekly wildlife, nature & conservation podcast, bringing you chat from professionals about a huge variety of wild topics. This episode is sponsored by Leica Sport Optics.

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Trevor Feelgood Talks to Ant and Dec At West Wood One UK Studios find Trevor on Facebook - @TheTrevorFeelGood Twitter - @trevorfeelgood Instagram - @trevorfeelgood Tiktok - @trevorfeelgood YouTube - @trevorfeelgood --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/smallscreen90s/support

This time Behind the Scenes goes international, chatting with top TV executive Sean Kneale in Sydney, Australia. Former LWT Producer Sean reflects on his years working in the UK with most of Britain's high-profile performers before travelling the world to oversee the production of the biggest television franchises on the planet. The Masked Singer. The X Factor. And Mongolia's Got Talent? You bet it has! Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Theme music composed by John Orchard and arranged by Ian English Support the podcast by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/BEHINDTHESCENESWITHCOLINEDMONDS Facebook: colin.edmonds.73 Instagram: colinedmondsssm Twitter:@ColinEdmondsSSM Website: https://www.steamsmokeandmirrors.com/ Buy Steam, Smoke and Mirrors Available at Caffeine Nights Available at Amazon Available on Audible Buy The Lazarus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 2 Available at Caffeine Nights Available at Amazon Available on Audible Buy The Nostradamus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 3 Available at Caffeine Nights Available at Amazon

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, MD of Rubber Cheese.Download our free ebook The Ultimate Guide to Doubling Your Visitor NumbersIf you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcastIf you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this episode.Competition ends April 29th 2022. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hingley-58471524/https://www.tate.org.uk/https://twitter.com/David_Hingley David Hingley has over 20 years experience leading large teams in delivering customer and visitor experience.A lifelong lover of history (honestly there used to be a badge for that in cubs and that's where it all started), David followed a history degree by joining the graduate trainee scheme at Sainsbury's before moving on to a number of roles in Marks and Spencer, ending up running a department store when they were still fashionable. Having been told during a career development conversation that a future desire to ‘run a castle' was a daydream not a career plan - David was able to combine his passion for history with transferrable retail skills in the role of Head of Operations at Hampton Court Palace for Historic Royal Palaces. During this time he worked on projects such as the 2012 Olympic cycling time trial, the 2014 Poppies installation at the Tower of London, and the Magic Garden. He is currently Head of Visitor Experience at Tate Modern and Tate Britain which, thanks to Covid, has involved a lot more discussion about one-way routes, Perspex screens and face-coverings than the initial application process suggested.As well as Tate, David's a Trustee at Painshill Park, an average runner and a keen reader and walker.He believes that ‘people make places' and it's the shared enjoyment of unique sites by the volunteers and staff who care for them, and the visitors that make their memories there, that ensure they continue to thrive. Transcription:Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip The Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. Each episode, I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. In today's episode, I speak with David Hingley, Head of Visitor Experience at Tate. We discuss the visitor experience restructure at Tate, why people make places and how visitor experience makes crazy ideas happen. If you like what you hear, subscribe on iTunes, Spotify and all the usual channels by searching Skip The Queue. Kelly Molson: David, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today. It's lovely to see you.David Hingley: Great to see you. Thanks for having me on.Kelly Molson: Well as ever, we are going straight to icebreaker questions. I would like to know if you could live anywhere in the world for a year, where would it be?David Hingley: At the moment, I think I would like to live... This will be popular with some people I know... in Iceland. It's because we went years ago on a whale watching trip to Iceland in the coast, and it was fantastic. Ever since, I've wanted to go back, it is just completely different to anywhere else I've been on, I think, on the planet. A week wasn't enough.Kelly Molson: Totally agree with you. We went... Oh, 2017, maybe around then. Absolutely spectacular. Like you say, so different to anywhere that we'd ever experienced before. Bonkers, bonkers snow and weather and just everything is icy, but magic. Absolutely magic.David Hingley: Yeah and the belief in that magic as well. It's the whole mythology and stuff that's going on there, but also I loved... At the end of it all, we were in the back of beyond for a lot of the trip, obviously, but we're in Reykjavík. I think it was 20 degrees, and everyone was complaining how hot it was. We went to this little coffee shop. It was all as if you were in the busiest part of London, but there were honestly maybe three, four people there. It was, "You're in the big city now. This is how we roll." I just love that.Kelly Molson: While we're on this subject, did you eat the fermented shark?David Hingley: Yes, not much. Not very much at all.Kelly Molson: So bad. Yeah, so bad.David Hingley: We had a tour guide who was very keen that we did, and we did the very British polite thing, but it was not good.Kelly Molson: Was not for me, David, either. Okay. Would you rather be a super hero, and what would be your superhero talent, or the world's best chef?David Hingley: I feel like my family would say that if I was the world's best chef, that would be a super talent, compared with where we are at the moment. I'm not really sure about being a superhero. I think I'd rather be a chef. There's a lot rests on you as a superhero. I'm not sure. Especially after the last few years, I'm not sure I could deal with it. I think to be a chef and have people come and enjoy the food, that'd be great. I'm not sure how my signature dish of Toad in the Hole followed by like a kind of version of school dinners, chocolate concrete and custard would go down, but I'm sure I could deconstruct it.Kelly Molson: The Toad in a Hole sounds okay. The rest that came afterwards, let's just park that, shall we? Okay. I don't ask enough people this, and I should, but often it's like asking what your favourite child is. But what is your favourite attraction?David Hingley: Oh, that is...Kelly Molson: It's a hard one, isn't it?David Hingley: I think a lot of it's down to what your mood is at the time. It's predictable. I would probably go for Hampton Court. I know I've worked there, but I do... The reason I say that is even though I kind of know how it's done, I still love going back and visiting it. I can properly enjoy it as a visitor now because I was a visitor before, then I worked there. Now, I'm a visitor again. It's still got something about it because there's so many different facets to it with the gardens or the kind of... It's family friendly. It's got all the history. So yeah, that would be my favourite attraction.Kelly Molson: That's good. That's good that you can step away from it, having worked there because I think sometimes that might ruin it a little bit for you. It's good that it still got the magic. Great answer. Thank you very much. All right. It's time for your unpopular opinion. What have you prepared for us?David Hingley: I feel quite strongly that Ant & Dec's early work was their superior period. As much as I know the nation loves Ant & Dec, I think you look back on Let's Get Ready To Rumble, I think... The fact that when they revisited that it went... Everyone was so pleased. For me, that shows the quality was there from the start. I think growing up Grange Hill might have done Just Say No To Drugs, which was very laudable, but Ant & Dec were in Biker Grove. We got that warning about the dangers of paintball. For anyone in my generation that had to go on a lot of management away days, where people thought it'd be fun if we did stuff like paintball, I think that kind of early warning was important. And, yeah, Wonky Donkey, I mean, you're never going to beat that.Kelly Molson: Oh my God. Wonky donkey is the best.David Hingley: Yeah.Kelly Molson: I mean, there's nothing like an aggressive Dec, is there? Nothing. It's glorious.David Hingley: Saturday morning with a bit of a hangover watching them basically losing it with kids, who are trying to answer a very simple question. I mean, I don't know why they don't bring that back on Saturday Takeaway or something like that. I just think it would... I do think it's a superior period. I mean, I like what they do now, but I think they've lost some of the edge. Got to be honest.Kelly Molson: I agree with you, David. I am completely on the same page with you. Ant & Dec were... They're like my little heroes that I grew up with. I actually saw them perform Let's Get Ready To Rumble live once at an under 18s gig in Romford.David Hingley: Wow.Kelly Molson: I don't know why that was important, but yeah, it was a great, great moment. Really great moment. Thank you. Let's see what our listeners feel. Please tweet me. Let me know how you feel about Ant & Dec's earlier work and whether they should bring back Wonky Donkey obviously. Right, David, let's get onto the serious stuff. I'd like to know a little bit about your background. You alluded to the fact that you've worked in other attractions as well. So tell us about your background and where you're at too now.David Hingley: My background's kind of fairly mixed and quite a lot of different things. Years ago... My daughter reminds me years ago. Years ago, I did a degree in history. Absolutely loved it. My parents always said, "You know what'll happen with that? You'll end up working in a shop," because nobody knows what to do with a degree in history. So I proved them right and went and worked in shops. I worked for Sainsbury's on the graduate training scheme. I thought I'd do it for 12 months, just get some great knowledge, and then I'll move on.David Hingley: I did that for seven years, did different jobs there, night shift managers, fruit and veg managers, that kind of stuff because I just like working with the people. Then I went work for M&S when running department stores was still a thing. God, I spent seven years with M&S. I was a food hall manager because that's what they do with anyone who's come from supermarkets. I worked in some really interesting shops. I worked in the Kings Road, which is quite a fancy place, obviously. Ken High Street, where we used to have flamingos on the roof because the roof gardens were above us, so that was quite cool. Then Marble Arch and Oxford Street.David Hingley: But all the time I was thinking I'd really like to do something that I felt more at home with. I was reading my history books on my breaks. Then Hampton Court advertised for a head of visitor services, I think it was. I thought, "I'll give that a go." I stuck my CV in and yeah, I was successful. I got the job, which feels like a real cheat, because I know how hard people work and. I feel like I had loads of transferable skills, and the organisation took a bit of a flyer on me.David Hingley: I know that's true because on the first morning when I started, I was having a coffee with the director, and he's very... You can imagine, all the rooms at Hampton Court are very grand. It was quite a grand room. He just said, "It's amazing who comes out top of these recruitment processes, isn't it?"Kelly Molson: "Oh, thanks."David Hingley: ... which I think was well meant. Then I got to work at Hampton Court. It was head of visitor services and it became head of operations. As those roles always change names. Then we had the Olympics, the Jubilee. We had the Magic Garden opened, which was massive for Hampton Court. The kids' garden opened. I was involved with the Tower of London when they did the poppies in the moat as well.Kelly Molson: Oh, amazing.David Hingley: Remember the delivery of every one of those because that was part of the team I was involved in, delivering them for like a year afterwards. Then I did a bit of time at Landmark Trust, where I was the Chief Operating Officer. They've got about 200 historic buildings all over the country, rescue them. If they're not big enough to be a tourist attraction, you can get the keys to a castle and stay there for a weekend, which is amazing, but they don't like you popping in to see how their holidays going, those visitors, so you miss all the... I missed all the kind of visitor interaction.David Hingley: Then the Tate role came up, which is Tate Britain and Tate Modern and working with the teams, looking after the day-to-day visitor experience. I've been doing that for a couple of years, although sometimes feels like it is longer given the last year and a bit.Kelly Molson: Imagine. Yeah, I could imagine.David Hingley: That's really potted history of how I ended up where I am.Kelly Molson: So it's Tate and Tate... Sorry, Tate Modern and Tate Britain.David Hingley: Yes.Kelly Molson: What does a typical day for you look like then? Are you rushing from one to the other and working out what the hell's going on?David Hingley: Not as much as it used to be, thanks to Zoom. Used to spend quite a bit of time on the boat going between the two sites. Anyone who works at Tate would tell you, it's quite nice if you've got to go from Tate Modern to Tate Britain from me. You can get the boat because you feel like a tourist for that 25 minutes. I know this sounds like every glossy catalog, but there isn't a typical day. Whilst my teams are making sure the doors are open, all the exhibitions are staffed and we're all looking ready to go and everything, my job is kind of 50% thinking about what's going on at the moment. I often say I have to think about the worst day out anyone can have and then stop that happening. In the last year with COVID, how do you open sites with COVID and make sure they're still fun?David Hingley: Then the other 50%'s kind of looking at what's coming next. Typical days can be in the mornings, I could be in meetings about exhibitions that are going to open up at Tate Britain or Tate Modern in next kind of two years, 12 months or just around the corner. Then there's all the stuff around looking after the team, one to ones with colleagues, look after the senior teams at each site, planning what we're going to do to kind of train everybody up on whatever's coming next, all of the business continuity planning stuff, making sure that we're operating safely, thinking about risk assessments, kind of all the-Kelly Molson: All the fun stuff.David Hingley: All the fun stuff, yeah. I say if it's kind of tricky, tedious or terrifying, it's probably going to fall into the operations teams part. Not in a bad way because we like doing all that stuff, but yeah, a mix of project planning, thinking about how we work with the programming teams and bring that to life and then looking after our own teams day to day and making sure they've got what they need to get through a day and operate smoothly.Kelly Molson: I can only imagine how reactive that has needed to be over the past 18 months and potentially the next few months to come.David Hingley: Yeah. Constantly. I think the trick is kind of finding the spot as well between being reactive and trying to be proactive, which has been even harder in the last year because many of us don't know what's going to happen until the evening before, do we?Kelly Molson: No. No. Then you found out from Bernard in his updates rather than the government.David Hingley: Yeah. Bernard and his flowers and his updates.Kelly Molson: Yeah, yeah. Famous flowers. We've been emailing backwards and forth and talking about different topics for the podcast. One of the things that you mentioned that I think is really interesting is about the visitor experience restructure that you were looking at at Tate. You said it actually accelerated a not-change program. Talk us through what you mean by that because I'd love to understand, one, how that came about and, two, what it kind of looks like.David Hingley: Yeah. Kind of fortunate, unfortunate, I took the job about two and a half years ago. So I didn't have that long really before COVID to get my head around the two sites, Tate, the way things worked, but when I started, the role was very much... It was a slight rejigging of roles as happens in organisations. Was talking to obviously the team that recruited me about what it was they wanted from the role. It was about moving from, if you like, a more traditional visitor service, visitor operations to engagement.David Hingley: Engagement was a big word that was used a lot. I don't think any of us were quite sure exactly what that meant. It was quite terrifying for some of the team not because they can't do it, but because the word was used a lot. The team were like, "Well, we do engage with people. We talk to people all the time," or, "We were taken on as gallery assistants back in the day when engagement would mean telling someone to back off if they got too close to a painting because it was our job to protect the stuff."David Hingley: It was always going to be about looking at how we could change the way that we worked as a team because Tate obviously used to millions of visitors, operated very smoothly. I mean, you go in and do your kind of casing the joint before you go for the interview. You can see there's kind of a well oiled machine, but one of the things is that it can be quite hot and cold as you go around the building. You can have brilliant individual interactions and then they've asked buildings... There's other areas where you don't meet anyone.Kelly Molson: Right.David Hingley: How can you help a thinly spread team to embody the place and have confidence and get it right for all kinds of visitors? From a visitor to Tate Modern's wandered in off the South Bank just to have a look around because they're curious, to someone who's come to Tate Britain on a mission to see a particular painting because that's what they want to see. That's their day out.David Hingley: I call it a bit of a not change program because it deliberately didn't do a change program. I think as soon as you start saying like, "I'm the new person. I'm here to do a change program," it terrifies people quite often. Everybody knows that if somebody new turns up when there's a new structure, that there is going to be change. So rather than labeling it in that way, what I did and what my team did and what we agreed to do was to work collectively on what that needed to look like because many of the visitor assistants, they knew what they wanted to do differently.David Hingley: It was a case of doing a lot of... I don't know. It sounds kind of slightly old hat, but focus groups, discussion groups with those teams to just tease out of them what great service looked like, what got in the way of delivering it, how they would like things to be different and then being able to almost play that back to the teams and use that to shape the changes that we were going to make. You can write a lot of that down in advance on the back of an envelope, if you like, because you genuinely know what people feel makes a good experience or you can generally guess what the barriers are going to be.David Hingley: But it's about making sure you've uncovered that all as a team. We really took... Tate, fortunately for me, had just had some new values that they've been working on, again, as an organisation around being kind, rigorous, open and bold. What we were able to do was we were able to say... Well, I was able to say, "I'm not sure how a painting or a piece of art is kind, but I know how a person can do that if I come in as a visitor and I'm looking a bit lost or my kids desperately need the toilet and I need to find it first.David Hingley: We took on thinking about how we, as people, embody Tate's values and really pulling it all back to that, which on the one hand, can sound a bit corporate, but actually I think it was really important that we... What we wanted to do was build a common language and a way of talking, so we could sort of hold ourselves to account and work out whether we'd had a good day or not.Kelly Molson: It's interesting because when you talk about it like that, from the aspect of our values, it feels very much that the visitor experience is... It's almost about giving... It's giving people the allowance to do what they need to do at that time. We had Liz Power on from Water And Steam a few weeks ago. That was one of the things that she spoke about in her team is that she empowers them to make the right decision about a circumstance. That might be somebody gets to give a free ticket away to somebody for them and their family. That, to me, sounds very similar to what you're talking about.David Hingley: Yeah. I think it is about that. It can be really hard, particularly in big institutions where you've got people, let's be honest, standing in certain spaces and galleries... I mean, that's part of the insurance and the fire evacuation, right? That's what's led to a person being stood there, first and foremost. You've got to do that and it's really important, but then how can you enable that person still to kind of bring themselves... A lot of my team, they're highly skilled. A lot of them are artists. This is another job that they do. It's how you can enable them to bring that to an institution and yet still kind of have a feel of like, "Okay, this is Tate. This is what Tate feels like."Kelly Molson: Yeah. How difficult was this to do because I guess, did this start just before the pandemic?David Hingley: We started just before the pandemic with all my kind of like... Having talked to everybody, we kind of set the direction. There was this brilliant five-year plan because we all [inaudible 00:17:39]. "And this is what we're going to do in year one."Kelly Molson: Then it got ripped into tiny little pieces.David Hingley: Absolutely. It was hard. Most of the core team were furloughed because we weren't open. So I think what we did, those of us who were still in, was we kind of already pitched where we were going to the team. Then we were able to... In one sense, alongside planning how to reopen, we were allowed to do a lot of work on what kind of material we needed, training materials, what kind of... Just going back on basic stuff like we have a handbook for people. Just getting that all tidied up. It kind of really captured the role.David Hingley: Then we were already thinking about what change to the job role we would want to make because the key change, I think, in terms of the restructures actually have been keen to make sure people understand the skills involved in being a gallery assistant, for example. We call it visitor engagement assistant now. We do laugh and say that all of our jobs have gained an extra letter. The visitor engagement managers are now visitor engagement and operations managers because that shows the breadth of their job. We have redone everybody's job descriptions based on the fact that as time's gone on, people have taken on a lot more of the kind of security aspects. The duty management aspects become bigger.David Hingley: People are more demanding. We deal with more incidents than we used to in the past. For the visitor assistants, there were seven things on their job description, which I think somebody thought was kind of, "Let's keep it nice and simple and have some basic stuff on there," but actually it meant a lot of the time, the team were... The team themselves said they felt they were defined by what they weren't. We were able to take some of those ideas and suggestions that they had and incorporate them into a job description and have that ready for when they returned. Then when we returned and we were back in the galleries, then we'd be in again, doing same process. We went through what the proposed changes were, what that would mean and getting people to buy into it and agree to it.Kelly Molson: Do you think that that was harder to do because of the pandemic, trying to get people motivated to make those changes?David Hingley: Physically harder to do? Everything's been hard, I think, from a mental health point of view for people in terms of the backwards and forward of the pandemic, but I think some of the changes that potentially people would've seen as major actually in the scheme of all our lives and what's happened in the last year and a bit, people were... They're almost like, "Oh gosh, is this all you want me to do?"Kelly Molson: "Phew."David Hingley: I also think one thing that's helped a lot is during the period when we've been in and out... At the moment, we've got people working from home, largely if they can office based. Most of my team, we're in most of the time... So my team have to be in all the time. You can only do your job face to face.Kelly Molson: Yeah.David Hingley: But it really showed how... It sounds daft because it's obvious, but it really showed how important those teams are and the weight that they take on. We found that because there's been a, "What's the latest legislation? How does it work... And you go to the operational teams because they're dealing with it all the time. The teams get much more listened to than we perhaps did in the past because it's been really necessary and really important. I think the organisation as a whole never intended not to listen to those teams, but I think it's just kind of fine tuned the need to hear what's said and what the experience is on the ground.Kelly Molson: Yeah. It's really interesting. How have you been able to test the impact of the program? You've been open for pockets of time, obviously clearly open at the moment. Let's hope that that continues. How have you been able to test it with the general public?David Hingley: Yeah. There's a few things that we've done. We've started doing a mystery visitor. I mean, that's not groundbreaking. Loads of people do it, but I think it's good to have kind of a snapshot. We started to do that before we ran some of our training. We worked with a company called the Whole Story on our customer engagement style, if you like. We ran sessions on that before we reopened last time from the last lockdown. We were able to benchmark where we were before and where we are now. We've seen positive movements. We're in a good place, we're in a better place.Kelly Molson: Great.David Hingley: Especially around consistency. The feedback we get from... Visitors because we've had booked tickets, which we haven't had before for the free collection. So there are issues with that, but one of the positives is we ask people for feedback afterwards and we get really good rates of response. Those responses have been... We saw them become more positive over time.David Hingley: I think part of that is because we've got better with our COVID measures and some of that, but also positive comments about staff and what they're doing. I think there's another element of reopening after the first lockdown, certainly, we did have visitors in tears because they were seeing staff again that they hadn't seen for ages. It just been spaces. I think that probably gave some of the team confidence to realise that they do play a significant part in people's lives, even if those people don't spend a lot of time interacting, don't know them by name. Some of them, they do, but that's kind of reaffirmed the importance. We've seen more positive comments definitely, and I think that is testament to how hard the team have all worked as well actually because it's been a tough time generally.Kelly Molson: Yeah. What an amazing reaction though. Isn't that just lovely? I mean, that really showcases how important people are.David Hingley: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.Kelly Molson: What tips would you give other organisations attractions that are thinking about going through this process?David Hingley: Again, it's tried and tested, but definitely over communicating all the time. I mean, I'm not going to say... Obviously there've been times when some of the stuff we've been doing has not been so popular with some of the team, and I kind of understand that. I think it was important to hear that and to be honest about what I could change and what I couldn't change. I do think there's a point around when it didn't go well. I could think of at least one occasion where I stuffed up when I just went out to everybody and went, "Do you know what? I stuffed up. There was an email you shouldn't have received... It wasn't a particularly batting, but... You shouldn't have received that email timing wise." I wanted to make sure that I communicated things differently, but I did the classic thing and sent it to the wrong people.David Hingley: I just went straight out and to everybody, "I stuffed up," and a lot of the team came back and said, "We really respect that." Then we just quickly arranged meetings afterwards. I think we did listen, and we made changes to the proposals in some areas. So if I take this idea of more engagement, I know some of the team have worked with us for over 20 years, and they're fantastic, and we don't want to lose them. But what we're asking them to do is very different from what they signed up for. I think we would... I used to joke.. I still do that... that some people were worried that engagement meant kind of almost juggling in front of their favourite painting.David Hingley: It doesn't. If you've been there for 20 years and you've seen Tate Britain evolve or Tate Modern from when it opened, those people have got great stories to tell. What we've got, for example, in one of the job descriptions is there's almost kind of three options where it's like if you want to be someone who knows the history of the building and shares it with people, build that up and do that. That's your interaction, but that'll be what you work on. If you want to give a talk in front of people, great, you can work on that. We need people like that. It's part of our recruitment process now. We'd recruit people who wanted to do that.David Hingley: But if you're someone who joined us before then, and that's not your thing, but you've got years and years of research, as some of my team do, then you can, by all means, provide that content for somebody else to deliver the talk for you. So trying to just, I suppose... Again, it's an element of being realistic and working with the team you've got because none of us are great at everything. So long as we've got all the bases covered and everybody's kind of pulling their weight, that's what we're trying to create.Kelly Molson: Yeah. It's playing to everybody's strengths using, everybody's talents in the best possible way and not by making anyone feel excluded because they're not comfortable standing up in front of an audience and delivering or that's just not their bag, but they have got the knowledge.David Hingley: Yeah.Kelly Molson: And someone else can do that for them as well. I really love that idea of being able to collaborate with people to share your experiences. Fantastic. Is this leading anywhere? I feel like this change program could be rolled out elsewhere, couldn't it?David Hingley: Yeah. Well, I really have been talking to colleagues. I really feel that we're in a tough time. We're all going to be struggling in different ways and in different contexts with things like budgets. It's always hard to get people off the floor to do training. It's something that we've struggled with for a long time. One of the things I'm keen to do is to work with other institutions and say this is the range of training programs we're running for front of house teams at Tate. What are you doing? Where's there some crossover. If we've got a room and we can get five people in it... And you've got a couple of people that want to come along and see what that's like, well, why don't we start to pair up? I don't think there's enough.David Hingley: I know different organisations have done it at different times, but I think if you want to change the way we look at front of house teams, it's quite hard. You can be starting your career. You might start as a visitor engagement assistant at Tate, and it might not be where you want to be long term, but often people can get stuck there and think, "Well, how do I get to the next place? It's hard when you're in that role as well to network, et cetera." If we can open up opportunities for someone to go and do a few shifts at a different site, for example, and I can kind of backfill and swap it around between us... Because we know our teams have got very similar skills, then I feel like that's something that we could really be doing more of. Organisations like Tate, we've got an opportunity to help to do that.Kelly Molson: Love that. It's building on what we've seen in the sector throughout the whole of the pandemic, isn't it? That kind of collaboration that's really come through and it's been there. It has been there to a certain extent, but it's been so much deeper whilst the pandemic has been going on, everybody helping each other. Something that you said about the networking thing when people are in those kind of entry-level roles, that's something that we spoke out with Rachel and Carlton quite a long time ago, actually right towards the beginning of the pandemic about the Visitor Experience Forum.Kelly Molson: That was the reason that that organisation was kind of set up to be able to give that platform to some of those audiences as well. I can definitely see the benefits of what you are suggesting. The organisations working together for the greater good. I think that's a fantastic idea. That comes back to something else that you talked about as well when we were emailing. I love that segue so well in there, but you said you'd like people to understand that visitor engagement is a career choice.David Hingley: Yeah.Kelly Molson: Your quote was "People make places, visitor engagement make crazy ideas happen."David Hingley: Yeah.Kelly Molson: I love this. I love this. Where's this come from?David Hingley: People make places, and my team now roll their eyes and repeat. Everybody repeats it, which is great actually because that's... But it comes from years ago when I worked at M&S actually. It's where it kind of triggered the idea. I don't think they used the phrase, but we went to... They used to do big conferences back in the day and get the store managers along. They showed this big black and white film. It was our latest store that was about to open. It was all black and white. It all looked beautiful, but it was all black and white.David Hingley: Then they put the people in, which was the staff and the customers, and they turned it all to colour. It was like a goosebump moment, which it's supposed to be, but it did stick with me. Then when I started working in the heritage sector... It's not a criticism, but I think it is genuinely surprising to me how many areas of the organisation just don't... Because they don't interact with people in the same way, they're not out there seeing what the visitors are doing. Sometimes I bet that's a blessing for them. Sometimes I think they're really missing out, but we've all got our jobs to do.David Hingley: I think there was a real... When I get emails... When we get emails in, and it's emails now rather than letters. It's never like, "I came... Well, very rarely is it, "I came to Tate and the art was amazing," because like that's a given. You come to Tate, you expect the... You might not like it, might not be to your taste, but you know it's a certain standard or the buildings were amazing. You expect the buildings to be amazing. Hampton Court, same thing. It's a palace. It's going to look good.David Hingley: But people write in and say, "I met Frank" or, "I met James, and he told me why he loved this painting," or a story about this room. Or he opened a hidden door and showed my child what was through there. That's what sticks with people. It's the thing that you don't immediately come up on your Google search or isn't in the guidebook, those are the kind of moments where memories get made. Bernard always says staff, not stuff. I think it's a version of that really. It's like the stuff's important, but the people make the interaction, and they're what you come back for.David Hingley: That's that element. It is definitely a career. I know lots of people join front of house teams, and they want to get on and work in other areas of heritage, culture attractions. That's absolutely fine, but I think we need to be quite honest about where we can get people. We managed to get to a point when I was at Hampton Court, where at the end of a summer season quite a lot of our staff would get stolen by interpretation or membership or other teams because they knew they were good with people. That's great, but there's only a limited number of opportunities.David Hingley: I used to say to people you can't hang around in the Great Hall at Hampton Court and hope that Lucy Worsley's going to pluck you for obscurity and make you curator because that isn't how it works. It's about people using their in to kind of look at where they want to go and to understand what they might need to do to get other roles rather than... It's just a bit disingenuous to lead people thinking if they work really hard front of house, that they're definitely going to get a different role.David Hingley: But then I would also encourage people to stay front of house, stay in the teams that I get to work in because I look at the meetings in other people's diaries. I say I don't have a typical day. I don't know many other people that get to go along and talk about future acquisitions for Tate in terms of paintings, go along to what's the next project that's coming up, hear about what a curator's working on next, then be in a meeting about membership. The variety, you get to stick your oar in everywhere when you work in visitor experience. That's cool.David Hingley: We used to have museum studies group come every year to Hampton Court. I always used to think if I can convert just one of those 35 people who are all hoping to become curators or similar to operations, then that's like a win. That's where the crazy ideas happen thing comes in. You can dispute whether the ideas are crazy, but I've been in meetings where somebody says, "We're going to plant 888,246 poppies in the Tower of London moat and then sell them around the world," and everyone's gone, "Really?" Or, "We're going to have a pie that opens up every day and the kids are going to jump out of it in front of Elizabeth the first. The kid that's going to go in the pie is going to be one of the visitor's kids."David Hingley: "Oh right, okay. That's safeguarding risk assessment." "We built a dragon that gave out steam in the kid's garden." There's all kinds of issues there you've got to think about. I think operations teams can be seen as people that say no quite a lot, and sometimes there's good reasons, but actually the job is more yes if or how do we do that? I think it's a really creative job and people don't see it like that.Kelly Molson: That needs to go on your job ads, doesn't it? "Come and work with the team that puts children into pies."David Hingley: Yeah.Kelly Molson: Maybe not. Maybe not so much like that, but that's part and parcel of it, isn't it? I spoke to Kate Nicholls from UK hospitality about the real challenge that we've got at the moment with recruitment in that sector. I think it's about making the best of it. It's about finding those hooks that make it an interesting place to be and to explain the career path. Actually a lot of front of house, they might only be thinking one way. They might be relatively narrow minded in the sense of that's the way that they see their career going, where it's about showcasing all of these brilliant things that they could go on and do, but making it fun and making it interesting. some of the things that you've just described, I wouldn't have even put in the operations hat?David Hingley: Yeah. I think this is it because operations are so different at different places as well. You kind of have operations experience, business services, engagement, and they're all so different. Some people doing my job are looking after all of the maintenance as well. I've done the job where I've looked after security. At the moment, I work with security. I don't have to look after them. So often it is configured around what it isn't. It's really clear what a curatorial job is, for example. I'm not picking on it. It just is really clear. If you ask most members of the public who works in a museum, the first thing they'll say is a curator understandably.Kelly Molson: Yeah.David Hingley: But they don't really appreciate all the different jobs that surround that. I think that's a problem because then people think it's not the place for them.Kelly Molson: Yeah.David Hingley: If you want a more diverse workforce, it's about saying, "Well, these are the opportunities we've got. This is the stuff we do."Kelly Molson: Yeah, absolutely. Brilliant. David, thank you. I've really enjoyed this talk. We always end the podcast with a book recommendation from our guests. Something that they love or something that's helped shape their career in some way. It can be anything. What have you got for us today?David Hingley: I had a real think about this. It's tricky. I always recommend any book by John Falk. Got one here at the moment. He's just got one out called the Value Of Museums. You've probably come across him. I'm sure quite a lot of people will have come across him. I think he writes brilliantly about not just museums, but about all the kind of baggage that we all bring on our visit. I think he really, in his writing, gets that when somebody rocks up, we do a lot of work on things like personas all of us, but you can be in a different persona depending on who you come with. My experience when I used to take my daughter when she was small round somewhere would be that I'd see the whole exhibition at a million miles an hour, maybe read one label because then we're off to get a brownie and a cup of tea.David Hingley: But if I went on my day off on my own, could be there for two hours. It could be a completely different visit. I think he really gets that in his writing. I think he really kind of sums up the operational side of it. Then I've got a slightly off the wall one, which is Dylan Thomas. The Dylan Thomas Omnibus has his broadcasting about... He just used to do weekly broadcasts. I pulled one out because he's got a bit about the Festival of Britain Exhibition in 1951.Kelly Molson: Right.David Hingley: He's just totally gets what visitors are like. I didn't know whether I could read you just a paragraph of it.Kelly Molson: Please do.David Hingley: Pitch people if you work in visitor attractions, look it up. He talks about visitor flow basically. This is the exhibition in 1951. It says, "Most people who wish, at the beginning anyway, to make sense of the exhibition follow the course indicated in the official guidebook, a series of conflicting arrows, which lead many visitors who cannot understand these things splash dash into the Thames. And work their way dutifully right through the land of Britain, the glaciers of 20,000 years ago, the inferno of blown desert sand, which is now Birmingham, out at last to the Pavilion of Health, where perhaps they stop for an envious moment at the sign that says euthanasia." It just goes on. It talks about levitating doors and basically how people prefer the cafe to the rest of the site. It's like four or five pages, but I would recommend looking it up. I can't find it anywhere else.Kelly Molson: Oh, that's brilliant. Yeah, he really did get it, didn't he?David Hingley: Wasted as a poet.Kelly Molson: David, thank you so much. Listen as ever, if you'd like to win a copy of David's books... Are there two books there? Two books?David Hingley: Yeah. I've got two books. Yeah.Kelly Molson: There's two. If you'd like to win a copy of David's books, as ever, go over to our Twitter account and retweet this episode announcement with the words "I want David's books", then you will be in for a chance of winning them. David, thank you for coming on. What's next? Is it all rolled out now, everything's working?David Hingley: Now is the fun bit I hope. We keep talking about 2022. Let's hope with where we are at the moment with the virus, but now is the bit where we can really concentrate on the team. We've got the team all in place. We've kind of got them the job roles that they kind of deserve and hopefully the recognition. Now should be the bit where we can really develop the people. Our aim is we know it's been a success, we've said if everybody wants to steal our staff, but nobody wants to leave. That's kind of the challenge. By the end of the year, the next year, that's where I want to be.Kelly Molson: All right. Well, come on at the end of next year and tell me how that worked out. I hope all your staff are still with you, but they're being poached like crazy.David Hingley: Yeah. Fingers crossed.Kelly Molson: Thanks ever so much, David.David Hingley: Thanks very much.Kelly Molson: Thanks for listening to Skip The Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five-star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip The Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from the episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast.

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This week Natalie chats with property expert and 'A Place in The Sun' presenter Scarlette Douglas all about swapping the bright lights of the stage for jet setting across the globe. Discussing her experience of lockdown, her top tips on how best to holiday and how women shouldn't be afraid of investing in property, Scarlette provides expert insight whilst revealing her own struggles with life. She also talks how the early knock backs in her career as a West End performer propelled her to start investing in property in her early 20's and how she landed the job of her dreams with encouragement from presenting legends Ant & Dec. Listen now for this fun and honest chat that will give you some helpful advice on what travel could look like in 2021.

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In this episode, we welcome the excellent Nick Coleman into RBP's snug virtual cupboard. Barney, Mark & Jasper quiz Nick about his distinctively personal music writing for the NME, Time Out and the Indie on Sunday, with especial reference to his 1986 interview with jazz-soul siren Anita Baker. This leads seamlessly to discussion of his terrific 2017 tome Voices: How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life, as well as to the harrowing experience of hearing loss that inspired 2012's The Train in the Night.In this episode, it was impossible to ignore the death of monstrous megalomaniac and murderer Phil Spector. After hearing a chilling audio clip of him speaking to Roy Carr in 1975, Nick and his hosts attempt to separate the man from the visionary architect of the "Wall Of Sound". (Now a certified psychotherapist, Nick compares Spector's narcissistic personality disorder to that of Donald Trump, who finally vacated the White House the day before this recording.) We also bid farewell to Ed "Duke Bootee" Fletcher, whose lyric for 'The Message' made rap superstars of Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and played a huge part in the birth of "conscious hip hop".Somewhat less megalomaniacal than Spector is Miles Copeland III, whose rapid-fire voice we hear in audio clips from 1989. The man who seemed fated to follow in his dad's C.I.A. footsteps tells John Tobler how bankruptcy made him switch from Wishbone Ash to Wayne County – and how he launched I.R.S. Records as a home for R.E.M., the Go-Go's and Fine Young Cannibals.Finally, Mark talks us through his highlights among the 100+ new arrivals in the RBP library, including Dan Nooger reviewing our previous podcast guest John Simon live at Max's Kansas City in 1972; Mary Harron explaining U.K. punk to her U.S. readers in 1977; and Deanne Stillman reporting on America's enduring heavy-metal subculture in 1991. Jasper concludes matters with passing remarks on avant-jazz enigma Albert Ayler and the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest, staged in the tiny Irish town of Millstreet…Many thanks to special guest Nick Coleman; The Train in the Night and Voices are published by Penguin.The Rock's Backpages podcast is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network.Pieces discussed: Donald Fagen, Anita Baker, How to be Keef, Phil Spector audio, Phil Spector, Phil Spectorer, Phil Spectorest, Miles Copeland audio, Herb Alpert, U.K. punk, Blondie, Heavy Metal Mania, Bob Dylan, John Simon, Al Green, CDs vs LPs, Harold Budd, Midlake, Marc Zermati, Ant & Dec, Albert Ayler and the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest.

In this episode, we welcome the excellent Nick Coleman into RBP's snug virtual cupboard. Barney, Mark & Jasper quiz Nick about his distinctively personal music writing for the NME, Time Out and the Indie on Sunday, with especial reference to his 1986 interview with jazz-soul siren Anita Baker. This leads seamlessly to discussion of his terrific 2017 tome Voices: How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life, as well as to the harrowing experience of hearing loss that inspired 2012's The Train in the Night.In this episode, it was impossible to ignore the death of monstrous megalomaniac and murderer Phil Spector. After hearing a chilling audio clip of him speaking to Roy Carr in 1975, Nick and his hosts attempt to separate the man from the visionary architect of the "Wall Of Sound". (Now a certified psychotherapist, Nick compares Spector's narcissistic personality disorder to that of Donald Trump, who finally vacated the White House the day before this recording.) We also bid farewell to Ed "Duke Bootee" Fletcher, whose lyric for 'The Message' made rap superstars of Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and played a huge part in the birth of "conscious hip hop".Somewhat less megalomaniacal than Spector is Miles Copeland III, whose rapid-fire voice we hear in audio clips from 1989. The man who seemed fated to follow in his dad's C.I.A. footsteps tells John Tobler how bankruptcy made him switch from Wishbone Ash to Wayne County – and how he launched I.R.S. Records as a home for R.E.M., the Go-Go's and Fine Young Cannibals.Finally, Mark talks us through his highlights among the 100+ new arrivals in the RBP library, including Dan Nooger reviewing our previous podcast guest John Simon live at Max's Kansas City in 1972; Mary Harron explaining U.K. punk to her U.S. readers in 1977; and Deanne Stillman reporting on America's enduring heavy-metal subculture in 1991. Jasper concludes matters with passing remarks on avant-jazz enigma Albert Ayler and the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest, staged in the tiny Irish town of Millstreet…Many thanks to special guest Nick Coleman; The Train in the Night and Voices are published by Penguin.The Rock's Backpages podcast is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network.Pieces discussed: Donald Fagen, Anita Baker, How to be Keef, Phil Spector audio, Phil Spector, Phil Spectorer, Phil Spectorest, Miles Copeland audio, Herb Alpert, U.K. punk, Blondie, Heavy Metal Mania, Bob Dylan, John Simon, Al Green, CDs vs LPs, Harold Budd, Midlake, Marc Zermati, Ant & Dec, Albert Ayler and the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest.

It's been an unusual day for the brothers and they are slightly rattled but battle on to bring you another episode. We hear which out of Ant & Dec is Dans favourite and what happened in his dream about them. We stand with Sainsburys with their Christmas advert against racists. We continue to think Laurence Fox is a prick and won't stop saying it. The brothers mourn the death of Diego Maradona, probably the greatest footballer of all time and we have more of the odd things Dans wife says. Given recent events Dan really stretches the limits with this weeks quiz and we are rolling over the Where is your happy place? question. This weeks recommendations :MC Twist and the Def Squad : I Like It LoudSlick Rick : Mona LisaTippi McGarry : Busy FolkDa Vinci's Notebook : The Gates Get in touch with us about absolutely anything here :Email : betherewithbelson@gmail.comTwitter : @therewithbelsonInstagram : @betherewithbelson

Gracie has her wish granted to meet Ant & Dec by Rays of Sunshine. She is also an aspiring presenter, YouTuber and interviewer. Whilst on her wish she interviewed Ant & Dec and has also presented for Kids Bafta, where she presented an award with Stacey Solomon.

This week we're bitchin about Ant & Dec. Hosted by renowned bitches Tilly Steele and Helen Monks. Music by Dave Cribb. Artwork by Luke W Robson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is Adam still back to front? Has Bob still got the covids? And just how good is their Ant & Dec impression? Join Adam Croft and Robert Daws in the latest episode for all this and more. They discuss Theresa Talbot’s new podcast, Adam has ten facts about one of the original four ‘queens of crime’ Dame Ngaio (you’ll never guess what type of shrub she’s named after), Bob recommends a couple of TV shows and we hear about Adam’s Indian magazine reading habits. Viewers on Patreon will also get to see Adam playing with his funky new graphics (we really should rename it Ooh Matreon), while Bob realises he hasn’t name-dropped in a few episodes and attempts to make up for it. ~ Moriarty ~   RECOMMENDATIONS Westwind by Ian Rankin  https://www.kobo.com/ebook/westwind-1 May's book of the month: Anna Burgin Gripping British Mystery Thriller Series by David Bradwell https://www.kobo.com/ebook/anna-burgin-gripping-british-mystery-thriller-series-books-1-3   Don't forget your exclusive Partners in Crime discounts through Kobo. Get 90% off your first purchase using the code CRIME at checkout. And you can also get 40% off all books using the code PARTNERS when you shop using this link: bit.ly/PartnersKobo If you’d like to support Partners in Crime and get early access to every episode — on video — plus lots of other goodies, head over to patreon.com/partnersincrimepodcast   CONTACT US Email: hello@partnersincrime.online Facebook: facebook.com/groups/crimefictionpodcast/ Twitter: twitter.com/crimeficpodcast Instagram: instagram.com/crimefictionpodcast/ Website: partnersincrime.online Patreon: patreon.com/partnersincrimepodcast

What would Nicola advise is the best way to create an online business now and in 2020? She noticed herself giving advice to a new client which was completely different to what she would have suggested only a year ago but which reverts satisfyingly to first principles.   In The Show Judith describes her latest feline companion and three week houses it in the New Forest, and Nicola’s enjoyed some delicious food at a new restaurant in Brighton.   What’s Fuelled Their Fire? For Nicola it is Russell Brunson’s Expert Secrets book and for Judith it is a smattering of new PWYW (Pay What You Wish) clients and returning annual clients in each of her coaching groups for a second and fourth year respectively.   Focus Of The Week What would Nicola advise is the best way to create an online business now and in 2020? She noticed herself giving advice to a new client which was completely different to what she would have suggested only a year ago but which reverts satisfyingly to first principles. She describes it as both too easy and too difficult and throws down a 30-day challenge to the newbie who looks like she is responding positively. LISTEN HERE TO OWN IT #250 | Starting Online in 2020   Words Of The Week Nicola chooses Food and Judith picks Bungalow.   Project Updates Judith is thinking about creating resources for those who, like her, would love to buy a sexy bungalow with helpful accouterments to make life easier as we age. And Nicola updates the listener with developments at StoupaLife.com. She’s also thinking of entering a piece of screenplay writing to the BBC Writers Room drama workshop.   Who Or What’s Impressed Judith loved Ant & Dec chasing down their DNA on ITV, and Nicola reminds the Own It! audience about Steve Bartlett’s podcast called Diary of a CEO in which he tells the story of going public in a reverse takeover in Germany and making 270 million after ten years addicted to his business, Social Change; from homeless to multi-millionaire in a decade. *** Join our free Facebook Group for Own It! the Podcast and talk back to us about what you hear in the show. Support our podcast on Patreon with a few monthly dollars to help defray our costs – thank you!   Thanks for listening! To share your thoughts: Leave a rating and review via your podcast app Ask a question in our Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/OwnItThePodcast/  To help the show: Subscribe via Radio Public, iTunes, Stitcher, YouTube, TuneIn, Libsyn Please share on Twitter, Facebook or whatever social media platform you love to use and tag us if you can - we love to read your comments! Website: https://OwnItThePodcast.com

Baby Spice Emma Bunton may not have released much music but she was busy having babies, designing childrens clothing, nappy and products as well as hosting popular reality programmes in the UK and US. All whilst maintaining a steady radio presenting career on Heart FM.   It’s an exciting start to this era for Baby – because she has a baby. Her first, Beau, born in 2007.   2009 – Emma starts her stint on Heart FM. She covers a couple of shifts and is rewarded with her on Saturday drive time slot. She pre-records because Baby has better places to be than a stuffy studio on a Saturday evening.   2010 – She joins the judging panel of Dancing On Ice. She did 2 series. It was a little controversial at the time. People wondered, with no ice skating background, what she could possibly provide as a judge. But she was praised for locking horns with chief judge Jason Gardiner and not being afraid to make unpopular comments. She said it helped her shed her Baby Spice tag…. Because she became Sassy Spice. Here are some of her best put downs: She sure has. On the third show she told GMTV's Dr Hilary Jones: "I literally couldn't breathe through the whole dance and when you lifted her I felt physically sick, I was so nervous for you both. "I just didn't enjoy it and I'm glad you were smiling because I wasn't." The next week she said of Emily Atack's performance: "I just thought it looked messy, unsteady. I felt like you were being dragged around. You are improving but very little." Then, in show seven, she told Sharron Davies: "It's a little bit like déjà vu for me, with a different outfit each week." 2011 – Baby Tate. To celebrate she launched her own baby range with reputable fashion retailer, Argos. Much bigger than the capsule Geri knocked out with Next….. this was a 99 piece collection. Her eldest Beau was modelling the collection – following in his Mamas footsteps, because one of her first jobs was a child model in the argos catalogue. I bet she was a proper cherubic little model. All blonde ringlets and chubby cheeks. 2011 – She really commits to Heart FM. Covers maternity leave for Harriet Scott on Breakfast, hosting alongside her old sparring partner – Jamie Theakston. Breakfast is a big shift. It’s a high profile position, a lot of responsibility and hardwork. Its all early mornings and beaming smiles. But Baby does a good job; she ends up taking over the spot permanently and doing it for 5 years. Until 2018. 2012 – She did the previously mentioned Mel C duet, I know him so well….. Which I think is just lovely of them to work together. The video is beautiful, if a little boring, of them just hugging. Interview quotes they described the song as “having the spirit of spice”. 2013  was a big year for Emma Bunton – not only did she win Foxy Bingo Celebrity Mother of the Year award she had a new tv show. “Your face sounds familiar” – it’s a bit Stars in their eyes. 6 celebrities portray famous singers, chosen at random, to win £10,000 for their chosen charity. They’re trained by Yvie Burnett – who is the second best vocal coach in the world. After Carrie from Fame Academy. Its all very Saturday night cringe – filing the spots between X Factor and Ant&Dec. 2014 - Jade Jones appears on “Big Reunion”. Baby named as ‘Lead Singer’ of the group. Link for the image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S4opaSrTHI 2017 – She appeared on the judging panel of new American reality show, BoyBand, which sought to find the new big BoyBand. She appeared alongside Nick Carter, Timbaland. Hosted by Rita Ora.             Best bit was towards the end they did a judges medley, with the contestants. Emma completes a flawless rendition of Say You’ll Be There. Of course she does. If only Rita were so lucky. She tries to join Timbaland for “Way I Are” and it is car crash.             They create the band “In Real Life”….. who have released 6 singles since in the past 18 months. One charting. It’s a start.  2018 – She becomes the host of American version of Great British Bake Off. Guardian had a great tagline: Contesants will have to dust it, make it, proof it, bake it – show her how good they are   We find her back recording, Studio Spice. More than a decade after her previous effort. Signed a deal with BMG records – who tend to focus on publishing rights and legacy artists. She is a songwriter with a legacy…. What a home.   Does mean her time is short. She has to say goodbye to Heart Breakfast. 5 year stint, successfully so. Award winning stint. Including “Radio presenter of the year” and “digital radio programme” at the TRIC awards. But they do give her a Sunday night slot (bet that is a pre-record). She knows how to keep a foot in the door (must be easy to work with if they keep you on that long).   Which makes room for her to finally get married! After 8 years of being engaged.

This week my guest is Raven Smith who, as well as having one of the best names dot dot dot EVER is also the funniest man on Instagram (it's true, don't @ me). Smith is a columnist for British Vogue, a guest lecturer at Central Saint Martins and is currently working on his first book: Raven Smith’s Trivial Pursuits, a guide to modern life which covers everything from Ikea meatballs to Ant & Dec and which promises to be just as funny and irreverent as the man himself. We talk about Smith's self-professed 'failure to be straight' at school and what it was like growing up the mixed race only child of a single mother in an English seaside town (he was REALLY TALL too). We also discuss his failure to graduate, the absence of his father in his life, and Smith's failure at marriage, even though he's not divorced. As Smith put it to me in an email before we recorded the interview: 'Marriage is a concoction of failures (and successes). I relentlessly fuck it up.' I think there's something rather beautiful and profound contained within that. Hopefully you'll think so too! And don't worry - there's also plenty of laughs, from Smith's absurd competitiveness in yoga class to his terrible DIY skills which mean there's currently no door on his toilet.   How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Chris Sharp and sponsored by 4th Estate Books   The book of the podcast, How To Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong by Elizabeth Day is available to pre-order here.   You can read Raven Smith's 'The Week in Review' Vogue columns here. Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits will be published by 4th Estate in 2020.    Social Media: Elizabeth Day @elizabday Raven Smith @raven_smith Chris Sharp @chrissharpaudio 4th Estate Books @4thEstateBooks      

Today's guest, joining us today on the Join Up Dots podcast interview, is a chap who knows how to scale a business.   From the UK, but running away from sheep, sheep and more sheep. Yes, he is originally from New Zealand but now calls the home of warm beer, ultimate football failure, and Ant & Dec his home. He is a Business Scaling Strategist and accomplished leader with SME, mid-sized and FTSE 250 company experience. His career track record is dominated by leading and scaling 7, 8 & 9-figure rapid growth companies. His roles have included CEO of a 25 million enterprise providing services to central and local government and MD of a 240 million business unit responsible for leading a team of over 1000 people operating in 135 sites in 23 cities. One of his greatest successes included being part of leadership team that grew a real estate business 2000%, from SME to FTSE 250 company, in 8 years. These days you will find him on “Summit SCALE™: The Seven to Eight-Figure Business Growth Model” a blended learning program that equips seven-figure entrepreneurs with an eight-figure scale model to speed the growth of their business, ultimately for control and choice over exit. His work has spanned different industries including, among others, healthcare, energy, arts & entertainment, government services, professional services, real estate, housing, and manufacturing. So how long did he hold back from saying onto the world “Hey guys you are already doing really well……im the guy to make it go really well” And did he always want to be an entrepreneur, or did circumstances more than desire lead to him making the leap? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr. Shane Spiers Show Highlights Shane talks openly about his dislike and struggle to find new clients and the cold calling which is 96% of businesses ever make it to a million and beyond and the reasons that keep then from breaking through that ceiling. Why as a leader you have to set the structure of the business as quickly as possible to stand any chance of making it a success. Why 90 day goal setting is such a big part of Shanes business, and he reasons that it should be part of yours too. And lastly…….. How Shane pushed past through the “holding back mindset” that can derail dreams and future ventures like a pro

Tim and Rob try to escape from under the thumb this week but Tim has to get his son to sleep in the first part so Rob nearly does a one man show with the help of our live listeners; we talk camping and sleepovers as well as Tims difficult week whilst Rob has nightmares and night sweats and talks Ant & Dec.  We are pleased to welcome this weeks guest Rob Wade from Emotionally 14 and The Crazy Train Podcast, we discover that we're all big fans of Michael Jackson but which album is best, 'Thriller' or 'Bad'? What do we think of todays chart music and Bon Jovi finally get inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.   This weeks 'Beat The Intro' quiz has been made by one of our amazing listeners 'Henno' and then we review Paul Verhoven's Robocop from 1987.  Please excuse the technical difficulties we seemed to have this week, bloody microphones. 

Michael, Michelle & Anthony return to recap the sixth episode of Hunted US' first season. In this episode: Michelle is on the receiving end of a fan favourite joke. Are Production listening to us? We discuss Ant & Dec. How will the Finale actually work next week? We make a bet. Some more rules get revealed. We talk a little bit about Survivor. What was the worst night of Michelle's life? Michael has a brain wave about Australian Hunted. Where do the captured teams go? The editors backpedal. Michelle hates American terms. Where do you buy beer in Sweden? We explain our friends' nicknames. Anthony explains doxxing. How will Lee & Hilmar actually get away with the Craigslist stunt? A surprising team meets a gang. Should you ever contact someone after fifteen years? We have a sponsor! We call out some creative editing. Someone earns themselves a brand new award. Anthony shows his nerdiness. We get to the bottom of the mystery number from Lee's notebook. Michael talks about Fall Out Boy. We watch the video screens. Soul Control get a mention. We lament the loss of a favourite team. Griff slightly biffs it. And we look forward to the finale.

Flat 29 are back with their first podcast in 2016 (we know, it took a while!) In this episode we discuss jousting cats, whatever happened to firewire and plot the demise of Ant & Dec. Plus we talk over the jingles! Say waaaa? SO unprofessional.

New TV Shows for Fall 2015 Few things in life are as highly anticipated as television premier season every Fall. The Super Bowl maybe? A wedding or the birth of a child perhaps? But most of them pale in comparison to the awesomeness that is premier season. All of your favorite shows coming back for another year, and a ton of new shows to potentially add to the DVR. One of them might just become your new favorite show. Media Life Magazine has a great post with all the Fall Premiere Dates by date, time, and Network.   ABC   Blood & Oil Premieres: Sunday, Sep. 27 at 9:00 PM Don Johnson won't be getting Blood & Oil all over his Miami Vice linen clothes in this dirty series about a modern-day oil boom in North Dakota. Johnson plays an oil tycoon who's the antagonist to ambitious young couple Billy (Chace Crawford) and Cody (Rebecca Rittenhouse), who do everything they can to break off a little piece of that oil pie for themselves. Will everything of theirs — including their marriage — stand up to the challenge?   Dr. Ken Premieres: Friday, Oct. 2 at 8:30 PM Community's Ken Jeong, who was once a real-life doctor, can now say he plays a doctor on TV. Jeong stars as the titular character, a great physician who lacks bedside manner and a husband and father of two who drives everyone up the wall. The multi-camera comedy should be a good fit on Friday nights, where it will be paired with Last Man Standing. Suzy Namamura, Tisha-Campbell Martin, Dave Foley, Jonathan Slavin and Albert Tsai also star.   The Muppets Premieres: Tuesday, Sep. 22 at 8:00 PM Everyone's favorite (or at least top 10) puppets are coming back to television, but this time, they have even more sass. This new version of The Muppets is presented as a modern-day documentary catching us up with Kermit, Miss Piggy and everyone else as they go on with their professional (running a late-night show) and personal (puppet romance!) lives. ABC is pitching this as a more adult version of The Muppets that's still good for kids of all ages. The Big Bang Theory's Bill Prady will run the show.   Quantico Premieres: Sunday, Sep. 27 at 10:00 PM Let's just call this one How to Get Away with Terrorism, because this twisty ensemble thriller has a lot in common with ABC's big hit from last fall. A new incredibly attractive (obvs) class of FBI recruits at Quantico all joined the FBI for different reasons, which will be shown to the audience via flashbacks. But the real interesting part? One of the recruits — we don't know who — is responsible for the biggest domestic terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. Let the twists begin! Priyanka Chopra, Jake McLaughlin, Johanna Braddy and Graham Rogers star.   Wicked City Premieres: Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 10:00 PM Anthologies, period pieces and murder dramas are all the rage, and ABC smashed 'em all together in Wicked City. Set in 1980s Los Angeles, the first season is all about a detective (Jeremy Sisto) chasing down coupled-up serial killers (Ed Westwick, Erika Christensen) who prey on young women. Enjoyment tip: Try not to think about how half the cast wasn't even born when the series takes place. CBS   Angel From Hell Premieres: Thursday, Nov. 5 at 9:30 PM Jane Lynch stars as a guardian angel. Or does she star as a crazy person who thinks she's a guardian angel? That's what Maggie Lawson's character — a straight-laced dermatologist — will have to figure out in this oddball buddy comedy. But you'll have to figure out when to laugh — this is a rare single-camera comedy on CBS.   Code Black Premieres: Wednesday, Sep. 30 at 10:00 PM Marcia Gay Harden stars in this medical drama about an emergency room in Los Angeles that's overcrowded, understaffed and under-equipped. But the doctors get it done, because this is a television show! Based on Ryan McGarry's award-winning documentary of the same name, Code Black also stars Luis Guzman, Raza Jeffrey, Benjamin Hollingsworth and Bonnie Somerville.   Life in Pieces Premieres: Monday, Sep. 21 at 8:30 PM A fantastic cast highlights this multi-generational family comedy that's told from the point of view of every family member. Babies will be born, kids will go to college and sitcom situations will go down at funerals. Dianne Wiest, James Brolin, Colin Hanks, Zoe Lister-Jones, Angelique Cabral, Thomas Sadoski, Betsy Brandt and Dan Bakkedahl star.   Limitless Premieres: Tuesday, Sep. 22 at 10:00 PM You thought the movie was OK, now see the television show based on the OK movie! This thriller stars Greek's Jake McDorman as a man who takes a drug that gives him access to 100 percent of his brain, meaning he's gifted physically and intellectually. Naturally, that makes him the perfect person to solve crime! Jennifer Carpenter, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Hill Harper co-star. Bradley Cooper, the star of the original 2011 film and executive producer of the series, will recur and reprise his character.   Supergirl Premieres: Monday, Oct. 26 at 8:30 PM Add CBS to the list of networks riding on the cape of the superhero phenomenon, as Melissa Benoist suits up as Superman's cousin in this light hearted drama. Come for bubbly heroine Kara saving National City from disaster, stay for the Devil Wears Prada work environment with Kara's nightmare boss Cat (Calista Flockhart) and wardrobe changes. Mehcad Brooks, David Harewood, and Chyler Leigh also star. FOX   Grandfathered Premieres: Tuesday, Sep. 29 at 8:00 PM It's time to finally take down your Teen Beat John Stamos poster from your bedroom wall because Stamos is a grandfather! At least he is in this new single-camera comedy, in which Stamos plays a playboy restaurateur who finds out that he not only has a son, but his son also has a daughter. Old-man-changing-diapers hilarity ensues! Rounding out the cast are Josh Peck, Paget Brewster and Christina Milian.   The Grinder Premieres: Tuesday, Sep. 29 at 8:30 PM Rob Lowe can't stay off TV for too long! He headlines this comedy about an actor on a popular legal TV drama who returns to his small-town home to work in his family's real-life law practice with his brother (Fred Savage), despite only knowing law from the scripts of TV. What could go wrong? Umm, lots. But maybe that small town will teach him a thing about humility. Hey, this writes itself.   Minority Report Premieres: Monday, Sep. 21 at 9:00 PM Set 15 years after the Tom Cruise film of the same name, Minority Report follows a pre-cog — psychics who have the ability to predict the future — named Dash who uses his ability to stop crimes with the help of a detective. But Dash must do all he can to keep his abilities secret as there are people out there who want to detain pre-cogs and do all sorts of bad things to them, like poke their brain or open them up to see what makes them tick. Stark Sands stars as Dash, with Meagan Good on board to play his partner.   Rosewood Premieres: Wednesday, Sep. 23 at 8:00 PM The latest brilliant medical mind on television who has a problem is Morris Chestnut, who plays the titular Rosewood. And his problem? He's endlessly optimistic and loves life. Annoying! But his real problem appears to be legitimate medical issues, which leads him to live every moment like it's his last. (YOLO!) As Miami's top pathologist, he'll help a skeptical cop (Jaina Lee Ortiz) solve the murders that the Miami PD can't.   Scream Queens Premieres: Tuesday, Sep. 22 at 8:00 PM The latest idea to crawl out of Ryan Murphy's brain is an anthology comedy-horror series that's one of the hottest tickets of the year. Season 1 will be set in the ripest of horror settings — a snooty sorority — when the school's new dean demands that all potential sisters must be accepted in the pledging process. Oh, and a serial killer is on the loose murdering at least one character in each episode. Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele, Nasim Pedrad, Oliver Hudson, Keke Palmer and Ariana Grande highlight the impressive cast. NBC   Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris Premieres: Tuesday, Sep. 15 at 10:00 PM If there was ever a person suited to bring back the variety show, it's Neil Patrick Harris. The Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor is a singer, dancer, magician and just generally a doer of funny things. Based on the popular British series Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Best Time Ever features appearances by stars, stunts, comedy skits, incredible performances, mini game shows, audience giveaways and hidden camera pranks. If you can think of it, it'll probably pop up on this hour-long series.   Blindspot Premieres: Monday, Sep. 21 at 10:00 PM You know that recurring dream where you wake up naked in Times Square? Well, that really happens to Thor's Jaimie Alexander in this new drama from Arrow and The Flash executive producer Greg Berlanti. Alexander's character takes the nightmare to a whole new level, though, when she discovers her body is covered in intricate tattoos and she has no memory of how she got there or who inked her up like a gas station bathroom. Strike Back's Sullivan Stapleton appears as the FBI agent who follows the clues from her tattoos to reveal a larger conspiracy, the truth about her identity and hopefully, if he's lucky, who to call for a good time.   Chicago Med Premieres: Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 10:00 PM The newest spin-off in Dick Wolf's popular Chicago franchise, Chicago Med stars Oliver Platt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Laurie Holden, Nick Gehlfuss and Yaya Dacosta. It follows the day-to-day activities of one of Chicago's busiest and probably most dramatic hospitals, if we've learned anything from medical dramas. The series will draw inspiration from topical events as the doctors, nurses and cafeteria staff forge relationships in, out and probably around the emergency room. And yes, you can expect to see Chicago's hunkiest firefighters and top-notch lawmen swing through its doors on a semi-regular basis. Heroes Reborn Premieres: Thursday, Sep. 24 at 8:00 PM A reboot of NBC's Heroes, this new series is exactly like the old one only with less Milo Ventimiglia and more Zachary Levi. And although Peter Petrelli won't be back, some other familiar faces will make appearances, including Jack Coleman as H.R.G., Greg Grunberg as Matt Parkman and Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura, among others. But what is this new chapter in the Heroes story about? Following a terrorist attack in Odessa, Texas, that left the city decimated, those ordinary folks with extraordinary abilities are blamed. Most have gone into hiding or are on the run, but something tells us they won't stay hidden for for long, because otherwise WTF is the point of this show?   The Player Premieres: Thursday, Sep. 24 at 10:00 PM Philip Winchester stars opposite Wesley freakin' Snipes in this new Las Vegas-set action series about a former military operative and current security expert who's drawn into a high-stakes game in which a bunch of wealthy jerks bet on his ability to stop crimes before they happen. You can probably think of it as Strike Back: Las Vegas but with fewer explosions, more Snipes and some truly ridiculous, convoluted scenarios.   Truth Be Told Premieres: Friday, Oct. 16 at 8:30 PM Formerly known as People Are Talking, this new hangout comedy is about two couples who over-analyze and obsess about everything as if they're the heir apparent to Dawson Leery. Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Franklin & Bash) stars as Mitch, a college professor (LOL) who's married to Vanessa Lachey's (Dads) Tracy. Meanwhile, Tone Bell (Bad Judge) and Bresha Webb (Hung) portray their BFFs and neighbors, Russell and Angie. You can probably expect a lot of talking that doesn't really say much. CW   Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Premieres: Monday, Oct. 19 at 8:00 PM The CW's only new series this fall, this new comedy with musical elements hails from Rebecca Bloom who stars in the hour-long series as Rebecca Bunch, a determined (and possibly crazy) young woman who gives up her partnership at a law firm in Manhattan to move to West Covina, Calif., in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness with an ex-boyfriend. Remember when we said she might be crazy? AMC   Fear the Walking Dead Premieres: Sunday, Aug. 23 at 9:00 PM Don't call it a prequel! It's a companion series. Set during the time Rick Grimes was in a coma, the L.A.-set Fear the Walking Dead will show what happened when the zombie outbreak first began. But don't expect the same harrowing tales of survival from its wildly successful cousin; this drama will focus on a family unit and the problems it has with an outbreak backdrop. Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, and Frank Dillane star.   Research compiled with the help of TV Guide.   A look back at the new TV shows for Fall 2014   How many survived? Of the shows we looked at for Fall premieres last year, not that many. This doesn't include shows we didn't talk about, or other late premiere shows like mid-season or summer replacement series.   ABC (2/6)   Black-ish - renewed Cristela - canceled Forever - canceled How to Get Away With Murder - renewed Manhattan Love Story - canceled Selfie - canceled CBS (3/5)   Madam Secretary - renewed The McCarthys - canceled NCIS: New Orleans - renewed Scorpion - renewed Stalker - canceled NBC (1/6)   A to Z - canceled Bad Judge - canceled Constantine - canceled Marry Me - canceled The Mysteries of Laura - renewed State of Affairs - canceled FOX (1/5)   Gotham - renewed Gracepoint - canceled Mulaney - canceled Red Band Society - canceled Utopia - canceled CW (2/2)   The Flash - renewed Jane The Virgin - renewed  

In this week's show it's the take-over of the stand-ins. Stand-in Danny, Dennis is joined by stand-in Nicola - Kerri French. Dennis was Run Directing at Ashford parkrun whilst Kerri was waxing lyrical about inaugurals at Northala Fields. They are joined by Craigie-Lee Patterson who was at Peckham Rye parkrun's inaugural event and the Ant & Dec of parkrunworld bring us tales from Carlisle parkrun. There's parkrun picks galore and twitter been making Dennis sing again.