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**Welcome to The Garbage POD annual Eurovision Song Contest Podcast. ** As Eurovision hits Vienna for the 70th edition of the competition, 'Mark Taylor' and State-Side Eurovision fan 'John Berger' bring you their unique take on the biggest music event in the world. Mark and John have been making their predictions for Eurovision since the 2016 competition in Stockholm.​ **Returning to the show for...

Welcome to the 2025 Garbage POD / Christmas Crossover. This Year's Crossover is so big, it has been split into two episodes. In this episode, John Berger & Eddie Spangles join Mark Taylor for Festive Fun & Games. Including the Annual Twelve Days Of Christmas & Music Quizzes. They Also Chat About the return of Feel The Force Day, after being on a hiatus for six years. And to finish off...

Welcome to the 2025 Garbage POD / Christmas Crossover. This Year's Crossover is so big, it has been split into two episodes. In this episode, Mark Taylor catches up with Aylesbury Town Council Councillor 'Tim Dixon' to recap the 2025 Live In The Park Festival. which celebrated it's 10th Anniversary in 2025. During the event, Mark chatted with some of the bands & artists that took part. There i...

Welcome to The Garbage POD's Halloween Special! Mark Taylor & Regular Contributor 'Liz Springs' go on a road trip to visit two very different events during Spooky Season. Firstly, they travel to Stourbridge for their Award Winning Scare Maze & then on to St Albans for the inaugural Halloween Haunt Fest that we were invited to, when we attended Aylesbury Comic Con in the Summer. Visit: http...

As Eurovision hits Basel for the 69th edition of the competition 'Mark Taylor' and State-Side Eurovision fan 'John Berger' bring you their unique take on the biggest music event in the world. Mark and John have been making their predictions for Eurovision since the 2016 competition in Stockholm. Returning to the show for the 4th year after her prediction wins over the last three years is the Welsh...

Welcome to the first instalment of the 2024 Garbage POD / TGP NOMINAL Christmas Crossover In Part 1: Mark Taylor catches up with Ruth Mayhew. Who is the Senior Community & Events Officer for Aylesbury Town Council. To recap the 2024 Live In The Park festival, which took place over the August Bank Holiday. During the event Mark chatted with some of the bands & artists that took part. There...

Welcome to the Second instalment of the 2024 Garbage POD / TGP NOMINAL Christmas Crossover In Part 2: John Berger & Eddie Spangles join Mark Taylor for Festive Fun & Games. TGP NOMINAL takes part in the inaugural Aylesbury Sci-Fi Day. And to finish off the episode the John & Eddie play the annual Twelve Days of Christmas Quiz. Along with Seasons Greetings from friends of the show &...

Welcome to the third instalment of the 2024 Garbage POD / TGP NOMINAL Christmas Crossover In Part 3: TGP NOMINAL visit the Aylesbury Winter Comic Con 2024. A new Honorary Crew Member is inducted onto the TGP NOMINAL Honorary Crew Member Wall. Eddie Spangles hosts this year's Music Quiz. And Lezley-ann Shaw brings us some festive cheer. Along with Seasons Greetings from friends of the show & ce...

Hello Everybody & welcome to this Extra edition of The Garbage POD. In this episode we travel back to 1604 to find out why the 5th of November is so special to the UK. Visit: https://thegarbagepod.weebly.com/episode-78---remember-remember.html to explore this episode.

Welcome to this Special Edition of The Garbage POD. The reason this episode is so special is because you join me on an occasion that is almost like a holiday for podcasters all over the world. Where we get recognised for all the hours we put into creating content, editing & bonding with our listeners. I am talking, of course, about International Podcast Day. For this episode we have been throu...

Welcome to The Garbage POD annual Eurovision Song Contest Podcast. As the Eurovision juggernaut rolls into Malmö for the 68th edition of the competition 'Mark Taylor' and State-Side Eurovision fan 'John Berger' bring you their unique take on the biggest music event in the world. Mark and John have been making their predictions for Eurovision since the 2016 competition in Stockholm. Returning to th...

Welcome to The 2023 edition of The Garbage POD / TGP NOMINAL Christmas Crossover! Mark Taylor travels back to his hometown to catch up with Ruth Mayhew who is the Senior Community & Events Officer for Aylesbury Town Council to recap the 2023 Live In The Park festival which took place over the August Bank Holiday. During the event chatted with some of the bands, artists, charities & organis...

To commemorate International Podcast Day we bring you a special episode of The Garbage POD. The IPD moto is "Start The Conversation" so that's exactly what we do! Visit: https://thegarbagepod.weebly.com/episode-74---international-podcast-day-2023.html to explore this episode.

Welcome to The Garbage POD annual Eurovision Song Contest Podcast. As the Eurovision juggernaut rolls into Liverpool for the 67th edition of the competition 'Mark Taylor and State-Side Eurovision fan 'John Berger' bring you their unique take on the biggest music event in the world. Mark and John have been making their predictions for Eurovision since the 2016 competition in Stockholm. Returning to...

In Part 2 of The Garbage POD / TGP NOMINAL Christmas Crossover Mark Taylor is Joined by TGP NOMINAL “Regular” Co-Host John Berger and Wil from Wil Photography , for some Festive Fun. Ross Hockham from UK Astronomy tells us about a long forgotten Christmas Constellation. We induct a new recruit into our Honorary Crew Member Wall. There's our annual 12 Days Of Christmas & music Quizzes. And musi...

Welcome to Part 1 of The 2022 The Garbage POD / TGP NOMINAL Christmas Crossover. This years show is so big, we had split it into two episodes! In part 1, we rewind back to August Bank Holiday for Aylesbury Town Council 's Live In The Park Music Festival. Which is one of our highlights of the year. We catch up with Ruth Mayhew who is the Senior Events Officerfor Aylesbury Town Council. Chat with Li...

To commemorate International Podcast Day we bring you a special episode of The Garbage POD! For this episode, we take a delve through our vaults and journey back to 2013 when we conducted our first celebrity interview. For more information about this episode visit: https://thegarbagepod.weebly.com/episode-70---space-time-continuum.html

Welcome to The Garbage POD annual Eurovision Song Contest Podcast. As the Eurovision juggernaut rolls into Turin for the 66th edition of the competition 'Mark Taylor and State-Side Eurovision fan 'John Berger' bring you their unique take on the biggest music event in the world. Mark and John have been making their predictions for Eurovision since the 2016 competition in Stockholm Joining them from...

Welcome to the 2021 Garbage POD / TGP NOMINAL Christmas Crossover. We’ve produced The Christmas Crossover for the last few years so that listeners of both podcasts can experience a taste of the other podcast. First up on the show, we chat with one of the organisers and the headline act of an event that The Garbage POD is really proud to be part of. Then 'Mark Taylor' and his regular Co-Host 'John...

To commemorate International Podcast Day, we bring you a special episode of The Garbage POD Fellow Podcaster 'Joe Carioti' returns for a chat discussing everything from environmentally sustainable living to the origins of place names Next we visit the Letchworth Outdoor Museum and catch up with with 'Josh Tidy' from the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation For more information about this epi...

Welcome to The Garbage POD for our annual delve into the global phenomenon that is the Eurovision Song Contest. Joining Mark Taylor for their unique take on what should have been the 66th edition of the song contest is State-side Eurovision fan, John Berger. The guys are joined by a surprise guest, who features in Eurovision 2021. Mark and John have been making their predictions for Eurovision sin...

Hello everybody and welcome to the 2020 Garbage POD / TGP NOMINAL Christmas Crossover. Because it's so huge, we have split it into 2 Parts. Regular listeners to the show will know that we usually bring you our coverage of Aylesbury Town Council's Live In The Park Festival, during the Christmas Crossover. During Part 1, we would have been bringing you coverage of the 2020 event. However, like most...

In part 2 of the 2020 Garbage POD / TGP NOMINAL Christmas Crossover We have Trans-Atlantic banter from TGP NOMINAL hosts 'Mark Taylor’ & ‘John Berger’ Singer / Songwriter & now Author 'Damian Carruthers' comes on board to talk about his Sci-Fi project We chat with 'Aston Smith', an incredible 8 year old, who decided to write a book about the Solar System, during the COVID-19 Lockdown. 'Dan...

To commemorate International Podcast Day,we have decided to bring you a special episode of The Garbage POD In this episode we visit a Seal Sanctuary in Lincolnshire and talk to Duncan Yeadon, who's family have been running the sanctuary since 1965. We speak with Paralympic Gold Medalist 'Naomi Riches MBE' about her rowing career and the London 2012 Paralympics. And finally we chat with fellow Podc...

Welcome to this two part Special Edition of The Garbage POD. Something is happening that is ripping the heart out of communitiesacross the UK, as we speak. Bauer Media have acquired 56 "Local" radio stations and is going to re-brand them as part of their Greatest Hits Radio "National" radio station. This means the identity of these stations will cease to exist by the end of the year. This also mea...