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CPC on the BBC

Alex Watson

Posted in Games, Site stuff, Staff on February 27, 2008 at 3:04 pm

One of Custom PC’s games reviewers, Dan Emery, also works for the BBC, producing news stories for BBC Radio 5 Live. This means that as well as arriving in the labs full of salacious, off-the-record gossip, he’s also prone to calling up and asking other members of the team to go on the radio and comment about news stories that involve computers. This is often last minute, and often quite… let’s say, tangential, to the concerns of Custom PC. It’s not often that national radio talks about modding and overclocking.

However, Dan’s colleague Adam recently gave me a call and said Radio 5 were putting together a piece on PC and console gaming, as part of a segment for the Up All Night Show - Up All Night is, as the name suggests, a show for nighthawks that goes out from 1 till 5am. Now PC and console gaming happens to be right up our street, so last Thursday evening I found myself heading to White City to the BBC.

It’s not the first time I’ve been on the radio, but it is the first time I’ve been to the BBC and seen the inside of a ‘proper’ recording studio. It was a lot of fun, and a really pleasant atmosphere - perhaps because we were recording between 10.30 and 11pm, and the fact that since it’s not a news story, everone who contributed had longer to talk and get into more detail about their views. As well as my good self, the games segement incorporates interviews with Mark Rein from Epic, the guys from Commodore Gaming PCs and Miles Jacobson from Sports Interactive, makers of Football Manager. It’s a really interesting show and well worth a listen. The whole segment is reproduced below- I’m on about 2/3rds of the way through.

Click here to download the the MP3 of the show.

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