Approaching the Big 30

Approaching the Big 30

Well, much to our surprise, we've met our self-imposed schedule for Episodes 28 and 29, meaning that our attention now turns to the Christmas Special, which just happens to be Episode 30. Unless, of course, we suddenly change our numbering system to hexadecimal, which would make it Episode 2A.

This time last year, we were in the middle of our set of 'Doctor Who'-themed editions, wjich meant that any Christmassy atmosphere rather fell by the wayside, but we'll get the BBC jingle out this year and maybe even stick in the odd advert or two.

Some recording is planned in for this weekend with a number of possible subjects to pick from, but I hope we'll be able to look at one of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures from the 1970s.

A quick look at our numbers shows that November 2018 has seen our biggest audience yet, with over 300 listens to our name. That's across our whole range of episodes, though - we're still some way off from a single edition racking up such figures!

Admittedly, this is slightly skewed by doing two episodes very close together, but we'll take good news where we can find it.

Martin has been doing his usual design miracles and has come up with a lovely new logo (see above) that displays our three main listening platforms (Soundcloud, PlayerFM and iTunes) in a colourfully attractive way.

In fact, we like this so much that it might be appearing on a future video, in some form or another...

Also, the list of contributors has been livened up (note the special font for Terry Molloy), which might look good on a bookmark or something. We can never have enough bookmarks...

And our house does increasingly resemble 'The Book Tower' these days...

(Written by Andrew Trowbridge)