June 27, 2024Chat show
Howzat? 2.8 / 6 Before we get into it, what is with the title of this show? It’s way too long and I would go as far as saying it’s annoyingly long – like there was a table of Hollywood agents who wouldn’t allow the project to go ahead without referring to absolutely every element
June 26, 2024Chat show
Howzat? 4.0 / 6 Back in 2010, when the Internet wasn’t full of fake news and skinny jeans were all the rage* podcasting was in its nascent stage. And at that time, one of the biggest comedy chat shows was The Collings and Herrin Podcast (pause for dramatic gasps). The show itself sounded
June 25, 2024Trailer
We don’t really do serious, true-crime serials on Fifth Umpire, but we just listened to this trailer in FU Towers and most of us mouthed “fucking hell”, or something to that effect, after it finished playing out. Sounds good, huh? After a mysterious drowning off ‘Mortuary Beach’, police start to question what’s really happened to
June 24, 2024Comedy
Howzat? 4.5 / 6 Josh Widdicombe and Rob Beckett did what any sensible, incredibly rich, well-known comedian would have done during a global pandemic: they started a podcast. When it launched, ‘Parenting Hell’ tapped into the rich seam of stir-crazy parents throughout the land and received plaudits for sharing the unholy burden of parenthood in
June 21, 2024Podcast Review
On this, the longest day of the year, we celebrate the summer solstice, not by dressing down to our knackers and playing the flute on a Somerset hill, but by going through some of the latest offerings from podcast-land… The Pink House with Sam Smith – “In the Family Room with Gloria Estefan” Howzat? 5.4
June 19, 2024Chat show
Howzat? 3.9 / 6 As with most tabloid headlines, you shouldn’t be fooled by this one here. The “admission” by Rooney isn’t as explosive as it may first seem. In fact, this entire podcast is like that: more posturing than a posing postman, so-to-speak. We have to start with the man-brand himself, Gary Neville, and
June 18, 2024Entertainment
Kicking Back With The Cardiffians Ironically, a series stating that it’s a series of “special” and “intimate” conversations doesn’t seem that special in the land of podcasting, where you’d be lambasted for releasing something too general and balsé. However, strap your girdles tightly to your loins, this podcast features… THE WELSH! And more specifically, it
June 17, 2024Chat show
Howzat? 4.1 / 6 Cooked up from the fires of hell (Essex) and moulded from the ambers of sludge (reality TV), Rylan has had a surprisingly successful career, albeit somewhat generic. The singer reality contestant TV presenter radio presenter podcaster is riding high on a career fuelled by the needs of media executives to appeal
June 14, 2024Cricket
What glory days these be. We have the T20 Cricket World Cup on-the-go and now, the European Championships start today too. To “celebrate”, let’s see what effort podcasters are putting out there… Football Weekly – “Euro 2024 preview: Groups E and F … including Portugal” Howzat? 4.9 / 6 The Guardian knows when it’s onto
June 13, 2024Podcast Review
Howzat? 3.9 / 6 Prelude: hearing the usually erudite Gary Lineker reading an ad for Pepsi Max at the beginning of the episode, sounding like a frightened school kid talking about what their parents do for a living in front of the whole school (“I’ll be enjoying the Euros with a Pepsi Max in hand”)