agile
Oct 26th, 2006, 06:11 AM
http://podcastrev.com/images/smallroomlogo%20-%20150x150.jpg
The Small Room podcast is set up as a radio show. It is recorded live from Brisbane, Australia as an internet radio show and listeners are encouraged to contact the show while the show is recorded live. The show is available to listen to live Friday nights (AEST) or as a podcast once a week. Shows run for about an hour and are a combination of Australian podsafe music, chat between the married hosts (Mark and Lizzie) and other comedy bits and stories.
The show is remarkably well set up with live internet streaming, live chat, message boards, Skype and phone numbers in Australia, the US and the UK. My favourite section of the show was the featured Australian bands. Information about each of these can be found in the show notes on the websites.
Unfortunately the infrastructure around the show is not enough to prop The Small Room up. Mark and Lizzie, while being very comfortable and relaxed, are content to let the spoken word section of the show drift along without much direction. There does not seem to be enough prepared topics to last the 40-50 minutes of air time and Mark’s pleas for people to call in live seemed to go largely unheeded (there were one or two live calls in the shows I listened to).
I know that it can’t be easy making three quarters of an hour of talk between two laid back people entertaining; I know I’d struggle. This being said, this is one show that needs to tighten up the production values of the show. Listeners don’t need to know about the post-editing process of the show and if I hear another podcaster talk about their fairly mundane business trip I think I may spontaneously combust.
Overall The Small Room is a podcast that has clearly had a lot of effort put into the structure of the show without that effort or professionalism always being evident in the show itself. The show, in its present stage, also feels a little empty as it is really set up as a radio show that is dependent on its energy from live listener interaction that is sadly lacking; hopefully over time this will change as their audience grows.
Podcast Rating: 6 out of 10
Website: http://www.thesmallroom.net/
RSS Feed: http://thesmallroom.libsyn.com/rss
The Small Room podcast is set up as a radio show. It is recorded live from Brisbane, Australia as an internet radio show and listeners are encouraged to contact the show while the show is recorded live. The show is available to listen to live Friday nights (AEST) or as a podcast once a week. Shows run for about an hour and are a combination of Australian podsafe music, chat between the married hosts (Mark and Lizzie) and other comedy bits and stories.
The show is remarkably well set up with live internet streaming, live chat, message boards, Skype and phone numbers in Australia, the US and the UK. My favourite section of the show was the featured Australian bands. Information about each of these can be found in the show notes on the websites.
Unfortunately the infrastructure around the show is not enough to prop The Small Room up. Mark and Lizzie, while being very comfortable and relaxed, are content to let the spoken word section of the show drift along without much direction. There does not seem to be enough prepared topics to last the 40-50 minutes of air time and Mark’s pleas for people to call in live seemed to go largely unheeded (there were one or two live calls in the shows I listened to).
I know that it can’t be easy making three quarters of an hour of talk between two laid back people entertaining; I know I’d struggle. This being said, this is one show that needs to tighten up the production values of the show. Listeners don’t need to know about the post-editing process of the show and if I hear another podcaster talk about their fairly mundane business trip I think I may spontaneously combust.
Overall The Small Room is a podcast that has clearly had a lot of effort put into the structure of the show without that effort or professionalism always being evident in the show itself. The show, in its present stage, also feels a little empty as it is really set up as a radio show that is dependent on its energy from live listener interaction that is sadly lacking; hopefully over time this will change as their audience grows.
Podcast Rating: 6 out of 10
Website: http://www.thesmallroom.net/
RSS Feed: http://thesmallroom.libsyn.com/rss