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One Life Left
One Life Left is a radio show about videogames, only not really. We love games but we take them precisely as seriously as they deserve. 99% nonsense and 1% heart-stopping brilliance, they are all supposed to be fun and so are we. We have news, reviews and special guests, sure, but we also play game-related music and we have stupid game-related features like inappropriately dark-hearted poetry, gambling tips and chart news from a market stall. We're on the wonderful Resonance 104.4FM at 7PM…
Episodes
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- x09 -- Ann Life Left #2
Ann Life Left, much like a total lunar eclipse, does not happen often. And when it does you'd better make sure you're around to see it live, because releasing…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s07e01 -- #145 -- For the Lulz
We know, you're upset that Lulzsec have disbanded. But this world just isn't big enough for both them and One Life Left to be around in. What we're trying to…
One Life LeftOne Life Left's Crystal B-OLL
E3 2011 is three weeks away. Or is it? Join Simon, Ann and games industry luminaries Michael French (editor-in-chief, MCV) and Nicholas Lovell (director…
One Life LeftOne Life Left: No Continues 006 -- Building
No Continues is One Life Left’s off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last…
One Life LeftOne Life Left: No Continues 005 -- Physics
No Continues is One Life Left’s off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last…
One Life LeftOne Life Left: No Continues 004 -- Platforms
No Continues is One Life Left’s off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last…
One Life LeftOne Life Left: No Continues 003 -- Simulation
No Continues is One Life Left’s off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last…
One Life LeftOne Life Left: No Continues 002 -- Adventure
No Continues is One Life Left’s off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last…
One Life LeftOne Life Left: No Continues 001 -- Mazes
No Continues is One Life Left's off-season Weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e24 -- #144 -- Spring Break
It's the very last episode of Season 6 and that means the team, typically, are in a boistrous, last-day-of-school mood. Which is fortunate because they've only…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e23 -- #143 -- Happy Returns
Ste's back and it's his birthday -- twenty-one again, etc. But more importantly, perhaps, it's Valentines day which means the One Life Left studio is full of…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e22 -- #142 -- Halfway There
Wait! Check your calendars. Is it a Thursday? No. A Friday? Nope. SaturdaySundayWednesday? Sorry. Maybe it’s Monday at 7:00pm and you are listening live? Then…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e21 -- #141 -- Burning Man
The final one of three OLL's that almost never were brings a new adventure: how can they do a show with no features, no music, no themes and a broken Mac? We…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e20 -- #140 -- 2wo Third3
Welcome to the second part of catch-up trilogy! With Simon excused from duty, the episode from the 17th of January has a different tone to most episodes of One…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e19 -- #139 -- The Biggest Show
One Life Left shows are like buses. They're noisy, difficult to control, dangerous to cyclists and they have very little to do with videogames. No, wait…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e18 -- #138 -- Party Games
It's the final show of 2010! A time to draw upon everything we've learnt this year and celebrate what a great / terrible year it's been for videogames (which?…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e17 -- #137 -- Call Back
The call back, a popular comedic device the team learnt about while studying for their sets at Nottingham Game City, involves 'calling back' to a subject…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e16 -- #136 -- Post Rock
No time for explanation as we're rushing out RIGHT THIS MOMENT to record episode 17, which says more about our scheduling than it does about the quality of…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e15 -- #135 -- Number One
After last week's chastening / celebratory debacle, a humbled team return determined to do justice to the One Life Left 'brand'. That means a mix of videogame…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e14 -- #134 -- Epilogue
With their commitments clear for the forseeable future, the demob-happy One Life Left team collectively exhale. For an hour. Injokes, indulgence and…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e13 -- #133 -- Nasty Nigel
Excuse the brevity, lateness and general incompetence, but we're Writing this in a hotel four hours before we go on stage for One Laugh Left. So we sort of…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e12 -- #132 -- Last Laughs
As One Life Left moves closer to its videogame stand-up comedy debut, the team are joined by Actual Real Life Comic Catie Wilkins, who explains to the team…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e11 -- #131 -- Pop Up
No special studio guest this episode which means the One Life Left team can forgo politeness and professionalism and just be themselves. What does THAT mean?…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e10 -- #130 -- Production Line
Let's put videogames to one side for a moment, as if we didn't do that enough already. With under four weeks to go until the One Life Left team's latest public…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e09 -- #129 -- Shoes
Stop us if you've heard this one before, but musical guests are like buses. You don't have one for 128 episodes and then two come along at once. What? You've…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e08 -- #128 -- Special Ed
In which, with their comedy gig still far enough away for the whole thing to seem funny, the team are joined by Curve Studios' Ed Fear for the usual mix of…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e07 -- #127 -- Lightbulbs
Team OLL are back from their summer holiday in Cologne. What happened? How are preparations for the One Laugh Left comedy night going? And has Ann managed to…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e06 -- #126 -- Knock Knock
Knock knock! Who's there? It's the One Life Left team, doing some early groundwork for their One Laugh Left comedy evening at Nottingham! The One Life Left…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e05 -- #124 -- Training Day
You can tell there's a problem from the very start. Only five episodes into the new season and the team have reverted to the old theme. Something's gone wrong…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e04 -- #124 -- No Future
"No Future!" sang some pop group, once, and maybe they were singing about OLL #124, where Wired.co.uk's News Editor Duncan Geere joins the team to talk about…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e03 -- #123 -- Gossip Boys
This episode we're joined by Gamesbrief's Nicholas Lovell, who has just written a book on How To Publish A Game. Intrigued? Intimidated? Don't worry; highbrow…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e02 -- #122 -- Hot Wired
With ex-ex-exclusives galore and freelance journalist Daniel Nye as our first guest of the season, Episode Two is the hottest show we've recorded for a long…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s06e01 -- #121 -- False Starts
Hello. We're back. Discussed in Episode 1 of Season 6: ++ Where we've been ++ What we're going to do next ++ Videogames (a bit) Wanted for Episode 2: ++…
One Life LeftHalf-Minute Hero News #4
It's the last of our Half-Minute Hero-inspired news sections. Five stories, super-fast: it's everything you need to know about the last seven days of gaming…
One Life LeftHalf-Minute Hero News #3
It's the third of our Half-Minute Hero news "bites". If enough of you request, we'll issue the last line at normal speed, so you can set it as your ringtone…
One Life LeftHalf-Minute Hero News #2
Bong! It's the familiar chime of news, but in an unfamiliar setting: welcome to Half-Minute Hero news number two. Five stories, delivered at breathtaking…
One Life LeftHalf-Minute Hero News #1
Hello! And welcome to the first of four bite-size news features, crafted in celebration of Half-Minute Hero as we try to cram the week's news into 30 seconds…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e24 -- #120 -- No Chickens
So this is it, then, the final episode of our award-winning fifth season. We all knew it was coming, especially Ann, who can count. Sing along to the theme…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e23 -- #119 -- Deaf Jam
It's the penultimate episode of Season 5. That comes right before the Ultimate episode of Season 5, which means, as a warm-up act, this One Life Left has quite…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e22 -- #118 -- Framing It
Coming up on this week's description of this week's One Life Left: a hastily written paragraph describing the content of episode #118 of Africa's favourite…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e21 -- #117 -- Ribs Out
One Life Left returns! New episode! New decade! New resolutions, to be polite and professional and considerate to copresenters, broken straight away! Happy New…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e20 -- #116 -- Bango
It's the week of the OLL Christmas Party, which means it's the last episode of the show before christmas. So no guest this week, just the team reflecting on a…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e19 -- #115 -- MCs Three
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One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e18 -- #114 -- Press Gang
Episode #118 of One Life Left brings the gang back together: Ste's back from Venice and Simon's back from a fact-finding mission to Gamespot. Ann hasn't been…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e17 -- #113 -- Special Ish
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One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e16 -- #112 -- On the Fence
Lesser radio shows might think twice about podcasting an regretful hour of bickering, giggling and general idiocy (factual AND behavioural). But One Life Left…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e15 -- #111 -- Biology and History
Warning: the following episode of One Life Left contains Biological / Historical terms some people may find offensive. Listener discretion is advised. As a…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e14 -- #110 -- Boys Own
Back in the studio after a midweek adventure to Nottingham GameCity. What happened? Who's missing? Was there an after party? And what happens next? Find out in…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e13 -- #109 -- Definitive List
Critical success: ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED (5g)! Next up, popularity. Research shows that means coming up with arbitrary games-related lists and getting them Dugg…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e12 -- #108 -- Words and Awards
We went to the Games Media Awards. We took enthusiasm, mischief and pocket-sized bottles of vodka to spike our drinks. We were fifteen again and primed for…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e11 -- #107 -- Superstar DJs
One Life Left -- s05e11 -- #107 -- Superstar DJs Superstars? Has the whole three-time award-nominees thing finally got to Team OLL? Not really; the superstars…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- x08 -- One Life Left Presents: David Braben - A Life in Videogames Live at BAFTA
David Braben did something great 25 years ago. Then he did some other great things. Then BAFTA asked him if he wanted to talk about all of these things in…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- x07 -- Ann Life Left #1
Two boys down and one girl left. But wait, isn’t three the magic number? Thank goodness this isn’t Europe’s only FM broadcasting maths radio show. Sadly this…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e10 -- #106 -- Show Offs
We thought the show was off, you see. And then Ste put off his trip to the US by a week, Ann wasn't doing anything all that important, and, well, we're all…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e09 -- #105 -- Emergency Services
Emergency Services because, like the rest of the world, this week OLL is talking about 999 and 911. What? No, we're not actually talking telephone numbers…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e08 -- #104 -- Dream Cast
You want dreams? Easy. Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep little listener. No! Wait! Not now! Wait until the episode's finished at least. Come on. Wake up…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e07 -- #103 -- Broken News
No time to waste on snappy / elegant / laborious intros tonight. We're on the cusp of a three week break which means we've got three weeks worth of…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e06 -- #102 -- OLL, O.B.E.
Not to be competitive, here, but how many videogame radio shows can say they've had an Officer of the British Empire as their weekly superguest? We're betting…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e05 -- #101 -- Standing Room Only
Summertime and the living is easy. The radio presenting not so much, thanks to the hottest studio since the bad old days of '06 and an impromptu physical…
One Life LeftOne Life Left -- s05e04 -- #100 -- End of a Century
Hello. Welcome to a very special One Life Left. Why? Because -- OMG -- we're 100. Numbers aside, we've always been 'special', haven't we? And this is every bit…