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E23 (Or S2E2):The Trouble With Having Faces
Read more: E23 (Or S2E2):The Trouble With Having FacesIf Episode 22 (or S2E1) was a fairly successful foray into the world of vodcasting, then Episode 23 (or S2E2) highlighted the very real challenges of the medium. We recorded the first two video episodes back-to-back, signalling the change of episode to ourselves with a quick costume change. We recorded both episodes in the school’s…
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Episode 22 (Or Season 2, Episode 1): Why We Switched to Video (And Why It’s Probably a Mistake)
Read more: Episode 22 (Or Season 2, Episode 1): Why We Switched to Video (And Why It’s Probably a Mistake)Although that, in and of itself, doesn’t really mean a great deal, given that Season 1 only ended last week. At the time of recording the final episode of Season 1, we didn’t really know that would be the end of Season 1, any more than when we recorded this episode we had any idea…
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Episode 21: Porthcawl Nostalgia, Clarks Shoes, and Three-Time Podfade Survivors
Read more: Episode 21: Porthcawl Nostalgia, Clarks Shoes, and Three-Time Podfade SurvivorsGiven that it came immediately off the back of episode 20, which had been a relative struggle to put together, episode 21 was much easier for us. Perhaps we’d worked out all of our demons in the prior recording, because this one did flow a little more naturally. I think the ‘cold open’ focusing on…
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Episode 20: The Foolproof Plan That Wasn’t Ben-and-James-Proof
Read more: Episode 20: The Foolproof Plan That Wasn’t Ben-and-James-ProofAfter smashing out episodes 17–19 in a single recording session, Ben and I met back in my office during the first week of the summer holidays to record episodes 20–22. The plan being to get all the summer holiday episodes recorded during the beginning of the summer break in order to free up the rest…
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Episode 19: 1980s Staycations, West Country Accents, and Bad Teacher Wellbeing Advice
Read more: Episode 19: 1980s Staycations, West Country Accents, and Bad Teacher Wellbeing AdviceEpisode 19 was the third we recorded on the bounce on the last day of term. We’ve only done a ‘triple recording’ a handful of times. Normally getting two in the can is hard enough and there have been times when recording even just the one episode can feel excruciating (episode 8 springs to mind).…
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Nonsense Summer Jobs and Swansea Wave Machines: Episode 18
Read more: Nonsense Summer Jobs and Swansea Wave Machines: Episode 18We recorded episode 18 immediately off the back of episode 17, on the last day of term. Well, not immediately—we did check with the site team whether they actually wanted us to leave at this point and, while they clearly did want to see the back of us, they did graciously acknowledge that the site…
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Teachers on Holiday (And Why We Recorded Anyway): Episode 17
Read more: Teachers on Holiday (And Why We Recorded Anyway): Episode 17The end of term might have caught me out in terms of the blog side of this endeavour, but from a recording and editing perspective, we started the summer holidays with a bang. No sooner had the end of term speeches and subsequent hog roast finished (an annual tradition that is as delicious as it…
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The Tea-Making Argument, Creative Tension, and Episode 16
Read more: The Tea-Making Argument, Creative Tension, and Episode 16The end of term, as is oft the case, was a busy one and the realities of parenting (plus some much needed work on the house) have slightly derailed the start to the summer holidays. Ben and I have been productive and recorded a lot of stuff in the last couple of weeks and I…
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Episode 15: The Anatomy of a Goose (And Other Things More Popular Than Our Podcast)
Read more: Episode 15: The Anatomy of a Goose (And Other Things More Popular Than Our Podcast)Episode 15 was recorded on the same evening as episode 14 (as indeed was episode 16). I don’t think we even paused for breath between finishing one episode and starting the next. Previous times we’ve done multiple recordings on the same day, I’ve always been able to detect a theme or trend that has pervaded…
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Episode 14: Cutting It Fine (Or: Pixies, PodTraks, and the World Cup)
Read more: Episode 14: Cutting It Fine (Or: Pixies, PodTraks, and the World Cup)I cut it fine editing episode 14, and really it was only just about ready to go a few hours before it dropped. I’m not entirely sure why this happened. Obviously recording and editing podcast episodes can be difficult when also holding down a full-time job but Ben and I, cognisant that the run-in to…