“Mind The Gap” podcast for Underground 160th anniversary
Dec 27, 2023 16:51:58 GMT
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Post by timbo on Dec 27, 2023 16:51:58 GMT
Hi folks.
I was asked a while back to host some short podcast episodes to mark the end of the year of “tube 160”. Given there were three major themes to the year (architecture, innovation, connections) we made three episodes about those aspects of the Underground. A fourth sort of wrote itself as a Xmas specifically as various things occurred during production. The exec producer is the brilliant Adrian Hieatt, whose voice many of you are familiar with.
Every guest was chosen because they had a specific angle on their love of the Underground. We’d wanted to have more, but time, logistics and budget were against us - and with luck, there’ll be other reasons to return to this format with other people (staff, customers, enthusiasts) having their chance to have their voices heard. It’s always been important to me that anything I work on enables others to be heard, and puts the subject and its fellow enthusiasts collectively in a positive light. You’ll hear in these the voices of some backroom staff, some from Acton Works, and some unusual angles in stories of those who love the tube. There’s something on the CLIP with Paul Marchant and Mr Geoff Marshall represents some of us who have been brought together by the Underground.
As ever with this sort of thing (Being a mass audience product with a 30 min limit and little time to produce, I’m sure there will be some purists who will note we had to simplify things, and when one is recording in a live tube environment perhaps you say things that make sense in your head but you later think - I wish I’d said it differently! Case in point being ep 4 where I liken the loco we’ve just ridden on (a GWR loco) to the first passenger train locos used on the Met (GWR locos) not as “designed by people from the same company” but as “similar”. I think we all know what I mean, and that’s good enough for a mass audience special recorded with no script! There will be of course some of you who dislike it; as with anything I work on in the public sphere I welcome constructive feedback if it can be built on usefully.
I hope it shines a light on some different stories with different voices - I’m so pleased TfL has opened up a new channel. Perhaps the next set of episodes, if they pursue it in this world of ever-decreasing budgets, might look at something very different.
All can be listened to and downloaded at your leisure here. link.chtbl.com/TfLMindTheGap
I was asked a while back to host some short podcast episodes to mark the end of the year of “tube 160”. Given there were three major themes to the year (architecture, innovation, connections) we made three episodes about those aspects of the Underground. A fourth sort of wrote itself as a Xmas specifically as various things occurred during production. The exec producer is the brilliant Adrian Hieatt, whose voice many of you are familiar with.
Every guest was chosen because they had a specific angle on their love of the Underground. We’d wanted to have more, but time, logistics and budget were against us - and with luck, there’ll be other reasons to return to this format with other people (staff, customers, enthusiasts) having their chance to have their voices heard. It’s always been important to me that anything I work on enables others to be heard, and puts the subject and its fellow enthusiasts collectively in a positive light. You’ll hear in these the voices of some backroom staff, some from Acton Works, and some unusual angles in stories of those who love the tube. There’s something on the CLIP with Paul Marchant and Mr Geoff Marshall represents some of us who have been brought together by the Underground.
As ever with this sort of thing (Being a mass audience product with a 30 min limit and little time to produce, I’m sure there will be some purists who will note we had to simplify things, and when one is recording in a live tube environment perhaps you say things that make sense in your head but you later think - I wish I’d said it differently! Case in point being ep 4 where I liken the loco we’ve just ridden on (a GWR loco) to the first passenger train locos used on the Met (GWR locos) not as “designed by people from the same company” but as “similar”. I think we all know what I mean, and that’s good enough for a mass audience special recorded with no script! There will be of course some of you who dislike it; as with anything I work on in the public sphere I welcome constructive feedback if it can be built on usefully.
I hope it shines a light on some different stories with different voices - I’m so pleased TfL has opened up a new channel. Perhaps the next set of episodes, if they pursue it in this world of ever-decreasing budgets, might look at something very different.
All can be listened to and downloaded at your leisure here. link.chtbl.com/TfLMindTheGap
