We found this audio recording of the BBC reporting that the King had died and that Britain now had a new Queen.

Very sad and moving.

Diamond Jubilee: The Moment She Became Queen is a post from: Anglotopia.net

Hitchhiker’s fans rejoice! Arthur Dent is headed for the stage with the original BBC cast.

According to the BBC:

Original cast members of the TV and radio versions of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy are reuniting for a new stage production.

The show will star Simon Jones, who played lead character Arthur Dent in the TV and radio versions of Douglas Adams’s sci-fi comedy.

It will be staged as a radio recording, which will be made available for download after the tour.

The show’s first performance will be at Glasgow’s Theatre Royal on 8 June.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show – Live! will play at a host of other venues throughout June and July, ending at the Edinburgh Playhouse on 21 July.

The production has been adapted and written by its director Dirk Maggs, who was behind Hitchhiker’s 2003 revival on radio.

Source.

So the question is – how many fans will show up in their dressing gowns with a towel slung over their shoulder?

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy set for stage return is a post from: Anglotopia.net

I love British radio. I think they have a legacy of presenting narrative stories in an interesting and compelling wya tha tis second to none. Somehow, growing up as a nation with radio has affected the UK culturally and allowed it to make great radio pf all sorts.

I also think that the Brits do a swell job of presenting music programming. As a radio host and DJ I depend on a lot of UK music shows and the channels of the BBC to get the latest new music and information on stuff I know I will like. Again, the Brits do this better then anyone.

Thankfully online streaming and now Spotify has made it possible for us, over here, to hear the latest UK offerings.

With that in mind I was thrilled to discover this compelling and thorough piece by Widgett Walls for needcoffee.com on British Radio Shows You Should Be Listening To.

http://www.needcoffee.com/2011/11/16/15-british-radio-shows/

I also recommend a few titles for additional reading!

Radio Head: Up and Down the Dial of British Radio-By John Osbourne

Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age-By Adrian Johns

Life On Air: A History of Radio Four-By David Hendy

Great Article about British Radio Shows – Link Inside is a post from: Anglotopia.net

Exciting news today for audiophiles and fans of the BBC. The BBC is working on digiziting it’s entire historical radio archive so that it can be placed online in a new ‘Audiopedia.’

According to the Telegraph:

The service is being developed for launch “within the next 12 months”, said Tim Davie, director of BBC Audio and Music. “Audiopedia”, its working title, may yet become its formal name, he added.

“The BBC is working on how best to present Audiopedia at the moment but most people will probably access the new on demand content via other pieces of related content they are already listening to across the BBC website,” he explained.

The website will represent the biggest release of BBC programming on demand since the iPlayer was introduced in 2007.

As well as searching and listening to the archive, “Audiopedia” users will be able to share programmes with their friends.

The BBC is in the process of digitizing its audio and TV archives. Currently around 20 hours a week of Radio 4 archive is being added to “Audiopedia”. Davie the process was being run at a “small cost to the tax payer” and that the website will be “porous” to other broadcasters’ content.

Source.

This is awesome news! When we have more details, we will let you know!

BBC Working on Digitizing it’s Entire Radio Archive and Releasing it Online is a post from: Anglotopia.net

Here’s the final episode of Life and Fate – the BBC Radio 4 series starring David Tennant.

As the Russian tanks encircle Stalingrad, the commanders of the German 6th Army realise that the end is in sight but Hitler will not permit a surrender. Spiridonov abandons the power station to join his daughter, Vera, and her new baby on a barge frozen into the Volga. As the Germans are rounded up and the citizens of Stalingrad start to reclaim their wrecked city, the family begin to make plans for the future.

Listen now.

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Here are episodes 10 and 11 of the David Tennant starring Radio 4 Drama Life and Fate.

Krymov denounces Grekov as an enemy of the state. After a session of speeches marking the 25th anniversary of the Revolution at which he is cold-shouldered by his colleagues, he slips out to find Stepan Spiridonov at the Central Power Station. He recalls the heady days of 1917 and then attending Lenin’s funeral and compares those ideals with the days of the show-trials. Krymov is played by David Tennant.

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Krymov is arrested and sent to the KGB headquarters in the Lubyanka. Zhenya returns to Moscow to support him; she stays with Viktor and Lyuda and begins the process of daily queuing for information about Krymov: will she be allowed to deliver a parcel for him? While he undergoes interrogation and refuses to sign a confession, he wonders if it was she who betrayed him. Featuring Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant.

Listen Now

David Tennant: Life and Fate Episodes 10 and 11 – Listen Now is a post from: Anglotopia.net

Here are yesterday’s installments of the David Tennant starring Radio Drama Life and Fate.

Peter Bach, a German officer, is wounded and treated at a military field hospital. The brief respite from the fighting gives him time to contemplate his secret affair with a Russian girl, Zina, an affair that he roughly denies when confronted with it.

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Novikov, a tank commander, prepares his troops for Operation Uranus, the campaign which becomes the turning point in the Battle of Stalingrad. On his way to the front, he visits Zhenya, his lover, in Kuibyshev. He dreams of marrying her but she is still torn between him and Krymov. She tells an anecdote about Krymov and Trotsky, a slip of the tongue that leads to betrayal.

Listen Now

David Tennant: Life and Fate Episodes 8 and 9 – Listen Now is a post from: Anglotopia.net

Here are the next installments of the David Tennant starring Radio 4 Drama about life in the Soviet Union.

Episode 6 Synopsis:

Lyuda’s ex-husband, Abarchuk, is still a staunch believer in the Party even though he was arrested and sent to a Russian labour camp some years ago. He assumes his son, Tolya, is fighting for the Motherland and composes a letter to him about his beliefs; beliefs that may have been shaken by a recent encounter with his former mentor, Magar.

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Episode 7 Synopsis:

Building 6/1 is a former apartment block in Stalingrad that hides a clutch of Russian soldiers defending the frontline. Their leader is Grekov but they call him ‘The Manager’, an informality that worries party apparatchiks. Krymov, played by David Tennant, is sent to the building to investigate while the radio operator, Katya, falls in love with his nephew, Seryozha.

Listen now

David Tennant: Life and Fate Episodes 6 and 7 – Listen Now is a post from: Anglotopia.net

Here’s episode four of the David Tennant Radio 4 Drama Life and Fate.

In a forest in northern Russia, Lenya, a pilot, longs to see his pregnant girlfriend, Vera. She is stranded in Stalingrad with her father, Stepan. Her mother (another sister of Lyuda) has drowned in the Volga. She watches the planes hoping to catch sight of Lenya.

Listen now.

Here’s episode 5 of Life and Fate:

Sofya, a Jewish doctor, is taken prisoner and put on a cattle-truck going west to Poland. A German SS officer, Liss, oversees the building of the gas chambers and entertains Eichmann on an inspection tour. Liss is convinced that the Nazi and Soviet systems are more similar than their followers like to think.

Listen now.

David Tennant: Life and Fate Episode 4 and 5 – Listen Now is a post from: Anglotopia.net

The BBC has released two more episodes of the Radio 4 audio drama Life and Fate. Listen to them below.

Episode 2 – Anna’s Letter

Viktor’s mother, Anna, writes him a farewell letter. As a Jew in Berdichev, in the Ukraine now occupied by the Germans, she has been forced into a ghetto and understands what will come next. Janet Suzman plays Anna.

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Episode 3 – Krymov and Zhenya

David Tennant plays Nikolai Krymov, a commissar, posted to Stalingrad. Angered by the ordinary soldiers’ response to his political position, he volunteers for dangerous missions. He misses his estranged partner, Zhenya (Lyuda’s sister). Meanwhile, Zhenya is evacuated to Kuibyshev. Humiliated by Soviet bureaucracy and red tape, she longs to see her lover, Novikov, a tank corps commander.

Listen now

David Tennant: Listen to the Next Two Episodes of Life and Fate is a post from: Anglotopia.net

The first episode of the latest radio drama starring David Tennant is now live.

Here’s the synopsis of the first episode:

Kenneth Branagh plays Viktor, a nuclear physicist, evacuated with his family and members of his research institute eastwards from Moscow to Kazan. It’s October 1942 and other members of his family are fighting the Germans in Stalingrad; still others are in Russian labour camps or Jewish ghettos. Viktor’s wife Lyuda learns of the death of her son and her grief drives a wedge between the couple: Viktor is drawn to the kindness of Marya, the wife of his close colleague.

Listen below!

Life and Fate Episode 1

David Tennant: Life and Fate Radio Drama Episode 1 – Listen Here! is a post from: Anglotopia.net

Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant introduce the characters they play in the upcoming BBC 4 Radio Play: Life and Fate (BBC Radio 4).

Branagh and Tennant star in an eight-hour dramatisation of Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. Thirteen episodes will be broadcast from 18 to 25 September on Radio 4. This epic masterpiece, centred around the bloody battle of Stalingrad, charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil of war. Completed in 1960, the novel was deemed so dangerous by the KGB that the book itself was arrested.

In this first clip, they introduce the characters.

In this second clip they’re asked what makes radio drama special? Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant on why actors continue to come back to the medium.

David Tennant: Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant on Life and Fate – BBC Radio 4 is a post from: Anglotopia.net

The British TV Podcast with Chrissy & Ryan Show 99 has a feature on Richard Armitage (“Robin Hood,” “Spooks,” and rather improbably going to play a dwarf in “The Hobbit”). Chrissy is heading to London in November and needs tickets to shows. In the news, both “The Hour” and “Luther” get recommissioned by the BBC, three new “AbFab” specials are in production, Charlie Brooker will spoof crime shows for Sky1, and the BBC will shoot part of the 2012 Olympics in Super Hi Vision (apparently 16 times better than HD). We also make an announcement at the end of the podcast about the future of the show after next week’s Show 100.

Listen to Show 99

British TV Podcast Show #99 – Richard Armitage is a post from: Anglotopia.net

SiriusXM stirred a hornet’s nest last week when BBC Radio 1 mysteriously disappeared from their network, enraging thousands of customers who got the service just to listen to the station.

Petitions were started, Facebook support pages were started – it was beautiful to see Anglophiles mobilize so quickly to save something they loved.

Well, today comes news that SiriusXM is backpedaling and will re-instate BBC Radio 1 to their network starting Friday, August 19th.

The press releases announcing it is typical corporate speak and doesn’t say anything about the station being withdrawn or the movement to bring it back. It simply says it will start Friday – as if it was on the network for the first time.

Here’s the release:

NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced today BBC Radio 1 will be available to its listeners on SiriusXM Internet Radio beginning Friday, August 19 at 5:00 pm ET as part of a new multi-platform agreement with the BBC that brings subscribers additional concert performances from the BBCvault.

BBC Radio 1 will be time-shifted by 5 hours so Americans can enjoy the channel’s lineup as it was intended, with Chris Moyles in the morning, Scott Mills in the afternoon, and Pete Tong on Friday nights.

In addition to being available online, BBC Radio 1 programming will be broadcast on satellite radio at various times throughout the year coinciding with major events in BBC Radio 1′s programming schedule.

SiriusXM will also broadcast concerts from the extensive and wide-ranging BBC Radio  archive, many of which are not commercially available. SiriusXM listeners will hear classic performances by Led Zeppelin, U2, Lady Gaga, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Duran Duran, Queen, The Cure and other music legends. The concerts will air on various SiriusXM music channels.

“BBC Radio 1 has built a loyal and passionate following across North America. We’re delighted that we are able to continue and extend our relationship with SiriusXM, to bring BBC Radio 1 and our catalogue of classic BBC concerts to the North American audience,” said Salim Mukaddam, Head of Radio, BBC Worldwide.

“We are happy to continue our valuable relationship with the BBC and thrilled to now be able to give our listeners access to BBC Radio 1 programming on our expanding internet platform as well as deliver special concert performances to a variety of our satellite radio channels. The additional programming ranges from legendary music icons to today’s rising stars whose exclusive performances for the BBC are featured regularly,” said Scott Greenstein, President and Chief Content Officer, SiriusXM.

BBC Radio 1 is the U.K.’s music station that plays the best new music, live studio sessions, concerts and music news. The channel also features interviews with a distinctive British flair, extensive coverage of music events from around the world and exclusive live performances by some of the biggest artists on the international scene.

So, there you have it, BBC Radio 1 will return to Sirius XM on Friday. Well done, Anglophiles, well done.

UPDATE: It appears I misread that – they’re only brining it back to the Internet Player. Absurd to make people pay for something they can already get for free from the BBC website. 

Sirius XM Listens to Fans and Brings Back BBC Radio 1 is a post from: Anglotopia.net

The news spreading around fellow Anglophiles today is that Sirius XM has dropped the BBC Radio 1 feed without explanation.

Honestly, I didn’t even know they had BBC Radio 1!

According to Digital Home:

Without any notice to listeners, subscription satellite radio provider Sirius XM has dropped BBC Radio 1 from its line-up as of 12:00 AM this morning.

BBC Radio 1 is a national radio station operated out of the U.K. by the British Broadcasting Corporation which broadcasts current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

The Sirius simulcasts were time shifted five hours to allow U.S. and Canadian listeners in the Eastern Time Zone to hear Radio 1 at the same time of day as UK listeners.

The Sirius XM website makes no mention of why the station was dropped. The site simply says the BBC Radio 1 is no longer and available and directs listeners to listen for pop hits on SiriusXM Hits 1 (Ch. 2) or 20 on 20 (Ch. 3).

Source.

It’s still showing up on their channel list – they must not update it often.

The BBC World Service is still available.

Sirius XM Drops BBC Radio One is a post from: Anglotopia.net

David Tennant recently starred in a Saturday Play on BBC Radio Four called The Purple Land. And we have it here for you to listen to.

Here’s what it’s about:

Published in 1885, The Purple Land was the first novel of William Henry Hudson, author of Green Mansions. The Anglo-Argentine naturalist distinguished himself both as one of the finest craftsmen of prose in English literature and as a thinker on ecological matters far ahead of his time.

In Davies’ hands this ‘road novel’ becomes a fast paced romp in the tradition of Tom Jones, with a dash of Don Quixote for good measure.

It is an exuberant, wryly comic account of a young Englishman’s imprudent adventures, set against a background of political strife in nineteenth-century South America. Eloping with an Argentine girl, young Richard Lamb makes an implacable enemy of his teenage bride’s father. Leaving her behind, he goes ignorantly forth into the interior of the country to seek his fortune.

Whilst doing so he learns to hunt, ride, herd, love – even kill. On his way to becoming a man.

Hemingway alluded to this book in his masterpiece “The Sun Also Rises”, claiming that “The Purple Land” is ‘dangerous reading if read too late in life’.

Hopefully – it doesn’t make for dangerous listening!

Cast:
Richard ….. David Tennant
Paquita ….. Denise Gough
Marcos/Major Domo ….. Danny Webb
Toribia/Grandmother ….. Carol Macready
Isidora ….. Lizzie McInnerney
Herdsman/Allday ….. Nigel Cooke
Paquita’s father/Winchcombe ….. Richard Durden
Monica/Donna Mercedes ….. Jacey Salles
Cloud/Blanco Major ….. Nicholas Murchie
Epifanio/Chillingwoth …..Chuk Iwuji
Juez/Bartender/Blass ….. Trevor Martin
Cleta/Mother ….. Jane Slavin
Herdsman’s Daughter/Margerita …… Beth Cooke
Anita …… Grace Horbury
Herdsman’s Boy ….. Danny Concha

Listen to the play now below:

It’s 90 minutes long, so give plenty of time to enjoy!

The Purple Land

David Tennant: Listen to His Saturday Radio Play The Purple Land is a post from: Anglotopia.net

I had a chance to appear on the radio last night on BBC Radio Five Live during the Tony Livesey show talking about the Royal Wedding. It was a quick interview but it was a lot of fun.

You can listen to it yourself here:

Anglotopia Radio Five Live

It was a really fun experience and hopefully the first of many media appearances for us as we approach the Royal Wedding.

Royal Wedding: Anglotopia Makes a Radio Appearance on BBC Five Live is a post from: Anglotopia.net

[picappgallerysingle id="9675469"]It’s far too rare of a treat to see Stephen Fry’s work in America, and unless they happen to be Bones fans, most younger Americans may know him far more for his Twitter account than his excellent acting skills. So it was a wonderful treat to find out from the man himself on BBC Radio 5 Saturday that he’s been cast in Guy Ritchie’s followup to his 2009 Sherlock Holmes film.

Not only is Fry going to be in the movie, but he’s terrifically cast as Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s older brother, who appears in four of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories. Moviefone described Mycroft as “sort of a fatter, lazier version of Holmes, armed with powers of deduction that may surpass even those of his younger sibling’s, but utterly unwilling to do the legwork to put them to any practical use.” Sherlock will be played, as he was in Ritchie’s original film, by Robert Downey, Jr., with Jude Law as John Watson.

Fry, who is currently busy promoting his new book “The Fry Chronicles” and his recent UK “standup” appearances at Royal Albert Hall and elsewhere discussing topics suggested by people on Twitter, unfavorably compared Mycroft to his previous portrayal of Oscar Wilde. But it will be wonderful to see him matching his undeniable verbal jousting skills with Downey and Law as well playing a role based on a true British classic.

Sherlock Holmes 2 is currently due in theaters next Christmas. In the meantime, to capitalize on Fry’s impending big screen return in the states, it would be a great time for BBC America to actually pull Black Adder out for a proper run. Just a suggestion.

Stephen Fry cast as Mycroft in Sherlock Holmes 2 is a post from: Anglotopia.net

Now that the BBC has gotten approval for their various apps – they’re going Apple App crazy and have released a ton of great apps – so many that even I’m starting to lost track. In an effort to keep everyone informed of the best BBC iPhone and iPad apps – here’s a list of all of them with links back to the iTunes store where you can download.

BBC News iPhone App

This is by far the first app you should download – it’s the official BBC News iPhone app. It features the latest news from all around the world brought to you by the folks at the BBC. There’s a live audio news stream as well as the ability to play videos natively in the app. It has a very nice user interface and has become something I check several times a day.

Cost: Free
Click here to download:

Click here to Download the iPad Version:

BBC Radio Listener iPhone App

This great little App brings the best of British Radio right to your iPhone. Subscribe to your favorite radio shows and they’ll be automatically delivered to your iPhone. You can also browse an archive of hundreds of past shows. The app is free for the first 30 days and then there is a token monthly fee after that.

Cost: Free
Click here to download:

Good Food Healthy Recipes

The best recipes directly from the BBC Good Food Magazine. BBC Good Food – healthy recipes to use year-round. But healthy eating isn’t just for January. That’s why our healthy recipes app has over 150 ideas to help you stick to your resolve, and see you through the year. There’s something for every course – including the most important meal of the day – breakfast. We’ve also added over 35 recipes that contain less than 200 calories per portion, as well as healthy twists on classic dishes like Chicken korma and Chocolate brownies. Each recipe includes nutritional information on kcals, protein, carbs, fat, saturated fat, fibre, sugar and salt per serving. You can switch between metric and imperial measurements on all recipes. Selection of videos will help you improve basic skills with some healthy ingredients, like how to prepare fresh fish, and how to grill peppers.

Cost: $2.99
Click here to Download:

BBC Good Food Festive Recipes – Holiday Recipe iPhone App

Overwhelmed by recipes? Can’t decide what to cook? We’ll make your festive feasting super-simple this year – with our foolproof collection of over 100 triple-tested recipes to take you through Christmas and New Year. There’s something for every course, plus drinks and canapés and a diverse selection of vegetarian options. All recipes have clear instructions and a stunning photograph to help you get the best results. Our selection of videos will help you improve basic skills, like chopping an onion and making mayonnaise. There’s even a video for chocolate truffles, for that last-minute gift.

Cost: $2.99
Click here to Download:

Top Gear iPhone App – Who is the Stig?

Who is the Stig? It’s one of the great mysteries of our time. With the Who is the Stig? app for the iPhone, you get to decide. Take a picture of yourself, upload it in the app and then watch a video clip of the Stig revealed with your photo. You can ‘Stig’ yourself or other people, and share your photos on Facebook. There are 54 ‘Some say…’ quotes to keep you entertained and as many Stig reveals as you have friends… And remember: only seven people have looked the Stig straight in the eyes. They are all dead now.

Cost: $0.99
Click here to Download:

Another Top Gear Related iPhone App – The Cool Wall

And now, it’s time for the newly upgraded Cool Wall Quiz… One of the Cool Wall’s charms – and equally its most frustrating aspect – is that, as you might expect, Clarkson rarely listens to anyone else’s opinion. But now, you can try rating the cars yourself, with Top Gear’s new Cool Wall Quiz app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The Cool Wall Quiz App contains over 350 cars with our newly added features of full screen car shots, car stats and some witty quotes from topgear.com for all of the models. Choose where you would place them on the Cool Wall before finding out if Clarkson, Hammond and May agree with you. You can try as many cars as you like and then get your score.

Cost: $0.99
Click here to Download:

I Am a Dalek – Doctor Who iPhone App Game

The Daleks are one of the world’s most iconic Science Fiction creations. Created by Terry Nation, their grating voices have entertained and terrified generations of children. With this app, you can become your very own Dalek!

Cost: Free
Click here to Download:

Gavin and Stacey iPhone App

This App not only features all the classic soundbites from the Official Soundboard but ALSO 16 hilarious videos from the show. The Videoboard also includes photos taken directly from the shows, not only can you hear and see Nessa, Smithy and the gang say their famous lines but you can see them as well…

Cost: $1.99
Click here to Download:

What’s your favorite BBC iPhone App? Let us know in the comments!

Guide to BBC iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad Apps – British Apps for iOS Devices is a post from: Anglotopia.net

The face of BBC on Friday night will continue to be a very familiar one, on both sides of the pond.

Graham Norton has been tapped to take over the BBC1 time slot currently held by “Friday Night With Jonathan Ross,” which ends its run on Friday.

“In all likelihood, when [Norton's] show returns later in the year it will play in the Friday night slot,” a BBC spokesperson told The Independent.

Ross was signed to front a new chatshow on ITV late next year after a very public falling out with the BBC over a phone call made by himself and Russell Brand on Wossy’s now-former Radio 2 show. Norton will also be taking over the time slot for that show.

Since the move of “The Graham Norton Show” is not expected to happen until October, “Would I Lie To You?” will premiere its fourth series next Friday night (ed: this means that David Mitchell will be on the radio and telly at least three times a week for awhile, which makes the writer very happy, but that’s probably for another column.) “Live In The Apollo” will also fill in until Norton’s move.

Since both Norton and Ross have been a big part of BBC America’s weekend primetime programming, this still means that they will have a slot to fill.

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I’m happy to report that the fellows behind World Football Daily will be posting daily soccer (football) reports for the foreseeable future. They’ll also be providing us extensive coverage during the upcoming World Cup in South Africa. It’s going to be an exciting few months!

We took a few minutes to catch up with the hosts from www.worldfootballdaily.com, which is the only daily English language show exclusively dedicated to football anywhere in the world and is courted by players, managers, general managers and media personalities from the UK and USA, Italy, Spain, Germany, Africa and South America.

World Football Daily calls upon the very best journalists to help make the show the most thorough football experience covering football anywhere in the world. This is reflected in the numbers that the show routinely puts up in countries like Australia, Brazil, India, New Zealand, Canada, Germany and many of the big football nations throughout the world. They are also the only English daily show covering every aspect of the upcoming FIFA World Cup from South Africa, from the play on the pitch, to stories off the pitch.

World Football Daily reaches football fans worldwide that are looking for a deeper and more personal football experience on a daily basis. The show covers all on-field topics from the world’s major football leagues while finely balancing the 24/7 soap opera that is the world game as well as the business side of the game. This subscription based show has already broken new territory on delivering the finest broadcasted football product.

Steven Cohen and Kenny Hassan are both ex-pats and are extremely knowledgeable when it comes to the game of football. They both grew up with an avid love for the game. Steven was born in London, England, and after completing school he moved to the US where he joined the army. Cohen started World Soccer Daily, in 2002 with his good friend, Nick Geber. Steven was a life-long Chelsea fan for more than forty years but has since moved to the grand ole team Neutral FC for personal reasons. Kenny was born in Glasgow, Scotland where he grew up supporting the blue side, Rangers FC. Kenny moved to Germany and later to the United States where he has been living the dream for 15 years.

When did you start World Fooball Daily?

World Football Daily started in August 2009 and was the natural progression of what we had built over the previous 7 years with World Soccer Daily which started in 2002.

How do people listen to your show?

People have a couple of options: they can listen live from our own site www.worldfootballdaily.com or they can subscribe to the podcast. Once someone has signed up for a subscription they will show 3 differents assets that they might want: the complete show, the video of the show or simply just the interviews we do. They will click either Itunes or Zune and they are away. Additionally we have a mobile application coming out this week.

Tell us how you both got started in the Football World?

Steven: I started (with a guy called Nick Geber) the original World Soocer Daily, which actually started out as World Soccer Weekly in 2002. I was ata crossroads in my career and rteally wanted to find something that i really wanted to do and so moved forward with creating the first soccer radio show in US history. We built the show up over the course of 7 years and switched from network to network until we settled on Sirius XM but we left there in Augsut 2009 and formed World Football Daily as a subscription based show and the rest as they say is the present.

Kenny: I actually was a listener to the show from the very, very early days trying to listen at the most obscure hours as an Ex-Pat that had found this show that kept me connected with the game back home and it filled a massive void in my days when I wanted/needed my football fix. To have an outlet that had some serious effort, input AND comedy from both Steven and Nick, that, ultimately, was the clincher for myself, as a natural progression I stayed on listening till they got the first gig on Sirius and the first t.v. show in that awful living room set on the Fox network on a Friday evening and from there on in I constantly and I mean, constantly, emailed Steven at the radio show with my analysis of how Michael Essien was playing for Chelsea after most games, then called in, and was known as ‘ Kenny from Long Beach’. Before long, Steven asked on air for some local fans to come in and try and guest host with him when he was flying solo and that as they say, was that. I did my days when asked and soon they turned into weeks and then the partnership grew from there on in.

3 plus years later and we are as popular as ever thanks to a fantastic and loyal following mixed with the best correspondent and mgr/player/guest line-up that any show on the football landscape offers and better than any on a daily basis, one of the keys to our continued success is the fact that we are the only daily English language based broadcast available covering the beautiful game.

Do you have a favorite team?

Steven: I have decided to withhold my support for any one team but I was an avid Chelsea fan for 43 years. I am now as neutral as I could be.

Kenny: Rangers F.C.
I’m a Glasgow boy and have followed that club since the very first day I knew what football was. 40 plus years now. More silverware than any other football club in any domestic league in any country. World record holders.

How will you be covering the world cup?

Well we will watching every game and we will be experiencing the tournament in the same way that our audience experiences which is to say from here in the US. We might be changing the time of the show so that we can do a full and proper show once all the games are concluded every day ut we have not decided on that quite yet.

Do you have a favorite to win Steven and Kenny?

Steven: Spain.

Kenny: Actually, as Scotland failed miserably again to qualify I turned my attention to Chile. Strange for a Scot to be this off the wall, but they play a 3-4-3 system, the ‘W-M’ they call it which is all about attack and for me I really admire the coach Marcelo Bielsa and players like Valdivia,Sanchez,Suazo and Gonzalez…..I know they wont win it, but I really think they will entertain and add to the drama that unfolds every 4 years in our game’s greatest event. If I was forced to bet a few quid, I’ll take Argentina, I’m sure they can do it.

World Football Daily have kindly agreed to give Anglotopia a daily football report, including for the world cup. Stay tuned for further World Cup Updates!

Interview With the Guys Behind World Football Daily – Coming Soon – World Cup Updates! is a post from: Anglotopia.net

The British TV Podcast with Chrissy & Ryan Show #26 celebrates its six month anniversary this week.  We do a feature on the career of writer Steven Moffat, now the new producer on “Doctor Who,” as well as our usual segments with news about British TV, what’s running in the UK and USA this week (lots of old favorites coming back including “Have I Got News For You,” “Ashes to Ashes,” “Doctor Who” and “Jonathan Creek”), and DVD releases.

Listen to Show 26

British TV Podcast Show #26 – Steven Moffat and Doctor Who is a post from: Anglotopia.net

Even though I’m a straight dude, I’d listen to David Tennant read the phone book. This an excellent adaptation of the great work by Steinbeck. It’s quite strange hearing him speak in a American Southern Accent but entertaining nonetheless!

From the David Tennant Website:

David stars in a BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. He plays George Milton opposite Liam Brennan as Lennie Small in the story of two migrant workers in 1930s California whose dream of owning a place of their own is destroyed.

Steinbeck’s seminal novella has been adapted by writer and dramatist Donna Franceschild, who worked with David on BBC2 drama Takin’ Over the Asylum, in which he starred with Ken Stott in 1994

You can listen to it now on our embedded player below or go to the website to download it and listen to it later.

Download Of Mice And Men here

David Tennant Stars in Of Mice and Men Radio Dramatization is a post from: Anglotopia.net

This week on the British TV Podcast, guest host Howard fills in as he and Ryan examine news about British TV, what’s on this week both in the UK and USA, DVD releases, review “The End of Time Part 2,” “Day of the Triffids,” “Hamlet,” “The Turn of the Screw,” “Nevermind the Buzzocks” and take a look at the state of modern sketch comedy in Britain and why we don’t have more of it here in the US.

Listen to Show 14

British TV Podcast Show #14 – The Review Show, UK Sketch Comedies is a post from: Anglotopia.net

The BBC Reports that Rage Against the Machine has beat out all the other contenders for Christmas Number One with their song Killing in the Name.

There was a movement afoot to unseat the X Factor Winner, which is who usually wins the Christmas Number 1 race, in the last few years at least.

From the BBC:

Their success followed a Facebook campaign designed to prevent another X Factor number one.

One retailer said it was a “truly remarkable outcome – possibly the greatest chart upset ever”.

Speaking on the Radio 1 chart show, Zack de la Rocha from Rage said: “We are very, very ecstatic about being number one.”

He added it was an “incredible organic grassroots campaign”.

“It says more about the spontaneous action taken by young people throughout the UK to topple this very sterile pop monopoly,” he said.

McElderry, 18, praised the campaign, adding: “It’s been exciting to be part of a much-hyped battle and they definitely deserve congratulations.”

There was also charitable motivations behind the win – with fans and Rage Against the Machine pledging to donate the profits to the charity Shelter and Youth Music.

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