I'm going away on holiday - back in a few wee...

[969] It's time for the annual World News Quiz with 20 questions about some of the curious news stories of 2025. Stephen Devincenzi from the SEND7 podcast is the quizmaster. Can you I improve on my poor performance from last year? Can you beat me? Take a trip through some news hi ...  عرض المزيد

[968] The Collins Dictionary Words of the Year is a list of 10 words which capture the cultural zeitgeist - the spirit of the times that we are living in now. These are new words, picked by Collins, which reflect big issues that people have been talking about over the last 12 mon ...  عرض المزيد

The podcast is taking a short break for the month of May 2025. It will return in early to mid-June. We'll be back soon! If you want to contact me in the meantime about an episode or anything chess-related, you can do so here. 

The Pod-Pals are back on the podcast for another catching up session! Recorded just after the summer holidays, there is talk of Paul's hatred of the beach 🏖️, the English tradition of building epic sandcastles 🏰, other famous people with our names (including an "evil" teacherlu ...  عرض المزيد

In the beginning of June we decided to make our summer premium episodes free for everyone for the whole summer and try monetize our podcast with ads.  Now that the summer's almost over we have decided to make a few changes to how we release new content. 1. First of all, all prem ...  عرض المزيد

Big News: I'm taking a (short) break from the podcast!

We won't be airing new episodes for the next couple of months, but we will be working behind the scenes on some content so we can start releasing some fun new episodes in Marc ...