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E23 (Or S2E2):The Trouble With Having Faces
If 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…
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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…
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Episode 21: Porthcawl Nostalgia, Clarks Shoes, and Three-Time Podfade Survivors
Given 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…
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Episode 20: The Foolproof Plan That Wasn’t Ben-and-James-Proof
After 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…
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Episode 19: 1980s Staycations, West Country Accents, and Bad Teacher Wellbeing Advice
Episode 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…
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Nonsense Summer Jobs and Swansea Wave Machines: Episode 18
We 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…
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Teachers on Holiday (And Why We Recorded Anyway): Episode 17
The 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…
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The Tea-Making Argument, Creative Tension, and Episode 16
The 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…
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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…
