Podcasts - A Warm Cloak In A Cold Year

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Podcasts - A Warm Cloak In A Cold Year

Yesterday, we recorded a podcast reviewing the first half of 2020, and it was a sobering reminder of how quickly, and jarringly, life changed for everyone, and tennis came to an almost immediate halt in March. As the months went by, and we launched Tennis Re-Lived to fill the gap in our production plans, and indeed lives, the correspondence we started to receive from listeners all over the world acted as a small window into what was happening out there.

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The Intoxicating Power Of Podcasts

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The Intoxicating Power Of Podcasts

I remember the day I first heard the word 'podcast'. It was 2005 and the Simon Mayo Show was on BBC Radio 5 Live. Simon, one of the best broadcasters in the UK, was referring to a programme called 'Pods and Blogs' - a round-up of the new podcasts and blogs being produced around the world. I'd not heard of either word before. Blogs, I eventually worked out, involved people banging endlessly on about a subject in the written form. Pods were the same, but in downloadable audio form. I didn't expect to be interested in either. Then I discovered The Ricky Gervais Show.

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