Better Than Life Podcast

[Spare Hand One]

Probably not right or fair for the main G&T gang to write about this on the blog, but we can talk about it in the forum, right?

Anyway, it’s pretty good. I like the hosts and the general concept: two hosts (one who loves RD actively and another who just remembers it fondly from back in the day) interviews a different comedian about RD each week. Great theme tune. There’s a “recast the cast” segment I’m not generally fond of but it does sometimes result in interesting takes on what exactly makes our characters who they are.

Stuart Goldsmith and Gemma Arrowsmith were particularly good guests: knowledgeable and keen. RD clearly means a lot to Stuart. Gemma works as a screenwriting teacher and she cites RD as examples/exercises in her class; her insight/analysis in this capacity was really interesting as well as her general fan voice being keen and delightful.

Bec Hill, Tom Price, Will Duggan were quite shit.

Anyway, it’s episode-by-episode and in order. They just did Bodyswap. New episodes drop on Fridays.

Very few guests seem to like VII-VIII so I’m looking forward to hitting those episodes to see what happens.

Anyone else listening to this?

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[Nick R]

I mean, maybe that’s what Rimmer would have done in Doug’s cancelled special.

Doug is leaking plot details for the special to the Better Than Life podcast! And they’re telling us about them by cunningly disguising them as errors!

So all we need to do is keep track of all the mistakes they make, and we’ll be able to piece together the whole story!

[Technopeasant]

[Moonlight]

[Flap Jack]

This morning they released a 14 minute Rob Grant tribute episode, and the host added on 4 minutes of ads. Very classy.

[Moonlight]

They also called him Doug Grantler for about a third of it.

[Author]

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