Trypod - Click
Every
few days I’m posting about a podcast that I listen to and that I’d recommend
you trying out.
Click used to be called Digital Planet and then got rebranded to
fit in with the BBC’s television show about technology. That’s great but they
are two very different programmes. Aside from them being on different mediums,
Click on the telly is about the latest hardware and software, while Click on
the radio is much more about how technology (what many people still call
‘digital technology’) affects society and the individual. Basically, Click on
the radio is as much about people as it is about fun, shiny things that bleep
and break down when you try to show your friends what they do. I love Click on
the radio because of this deeper approach but also because, like many of these
featured podcasts, it builds on the chemistry between its two main hosts.
Gareth Mitchell is a geeky engineer with boundless enthusiasm and a disarmingly
charming approach to interviewing his guests (although he’s not shy of asking
tricky questions when necessary). Bill Thompson is the older, more considered
‘studio expert’ who provides a wonderful foil to Gareth. Either one of them on
their own would be fine, but together they give the feeling of being sat
between two great friends who bicker but compliment each other perfectly. Which
is exactly what they do. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002w6r2/episodes/downloads
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