The Wrong Bed podcasts
Fancy being a guest reviewer on The Wrong Bed? The next episode of darts' finest podcast will be released on Friday 6 August, and we need your help. Both Tricky D and I are away during the European Championship, so we are looking for a couple of pithy 1 minute audio reviews of the tournament, to be sent to thewrongbed@bachelorofdarts.com by midday on Wednesday 4 August. Keep 'em short, clean and quirky, and if you're struggling with technology to record stuff, email 200 words and we'll see what we can do.
The Wrong Bed is darts finest bi-monthly podcast, released on or near the first and third Friday of each month. Interviews with the players, reviews of major tournaments, idle gossip
and bad jokes made each episode half an hour of your your life that you
will never reclaim. Previous episodes are available on iTunes, by clicking on the relevant small black arrow below, or via this direct download.
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please contact mail@justinirwin.com with the
phrase I want to get in The Wrong Bed in the title. To get in touch otherwise, please use thewrongbed@bachelorofdarts.com (this goes to Tricky D also), on twitter follow @bachelorofdarts, or
leave comments below.
At the moment we are looking for: darting lookalikes, people who share their name with a famous dart player, darts games you've made up, tournaments with mates that you play in, and regional dart boards. Of course, if ever you see a dart board on a telly programme or film, we want to hear about that too. Thanks.
Friday, July 16 2010
Things to do in Blackpool when you're dead
The World Matchplay takes centre stage with Colin Lloyd, our answer to the World Cup octopus, and plenty of things to do in Blackpool if you get beaten in the first round. Plus, listeners darting inventions get their first airing, including 'wicketkeeper' and 'wet cloth'. It's a belter.
Friday, July 02 2010
Where have all the darters gone?
The sizzling summer of sport continues, but there's no darts on the telly! We speak to The Sun journalist Phil Lanning about how darts can compete with the bigger sports, and have a general love-in with Dave Allen, the PDC's PR god. Plus, we've got three more Phil Taylor's to tell you about. Pass the suncream.
Friday, June 18 2010
Darting Queen
Following the recent World Championship qualifiers, women's darts takes centre stage without a patronising comment in sight. Stacy Bromberg gets in The Wrong Bed alongside Sky Sports commentator Dave Lanning, and we discover whether there actually is more than one Phil Taylor. Lock up your sons.
Friday, June 04 2010
The Way You Make Me Phil
We're back! Series 2 is underway and it's all about Phil Taylor, with an exclusive in-depth interview with the most successful sportsman of all time (his words). For good measure, we launch our new feature, There's More Than One Phil Taylor, and catch up on three months of darting news in less than five minutes. Not 'arf.
Thursday, April 01 2010
The Bounce Out Awards
The inaugural Bounce Out Awards come live(-ish) from Stevenage in front of a packed audience of dishy darters. Tricky D and myself prove to be the worst award hosts since Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood (and don't expect to be invited back), but the audience seem to enjoy the gathering of the great and the good from the world of arrers.
Tuesday, March 16 2010
Episode 9 - State of the Dart
The final episode of our first series takes a serious tone, with Tricky D finally letting me rant til my heart is content. Luckily Alan 'The Saint' Tabern steals the show, with his straight-talking no nonsense attitudes towards darts a far cry from dartatainment, ably supported by the wonderful Deta Hedman. Once again, darts is the winner.
Tuesday, February 16 2010
Episode 8 - There's no place like dome
TWB visits the former Millennium Dome to witness the emotional launch of the 2010 Premier League, and be part of the biggest darting event for a generation. Loud, brash, and in your face, and that’s just the Barry Hearn interview. Meanwhile, Terry Jenkins responds well to his 'Lovejoy' nickname, but we are too scared to tell Mervyn King what we call him. Darts literally doesn't get any bigger than this.
Saturday, January 16 2010
Episode 7 - Oh we do like to be beside the Lakeside
Tricky D is on fine form during his first visit to the Lakeside - in the company of Wolfie, Tony, Chizzy and Trina, amongst a cast of thousands. Sid clears up the 'only one word for that - magic darts' argument, and there's a lot of chat about all the recent World Champs. All we need now is a nickname for Ronnie Baxter.
Wednesday, December 16 2009
Episode 6 - Do they know it's Christmas?
A plethora of predictable puns are interrupted by Tony Green and Stuart Pyke looking forward to the two world championships, Tricky D checking out darts in Iran, and Scotty Waites laughing all the way to the bank. About that Two Ronnies sketch...
Monday, November 16 2009
Episode 5 - From Wolverhampton with love
We're at the Grand Slam of darts with more guests than Jonathon Ross - including the three W's, Wade, Waites, Whitlock. Anastasia drops in after her fantastic televised victory, and we have a proper chat with the Chief Exec of the PDC. All this, The Two Ronnies, some bar-room action and Tricky D trying to talk science. It's a cracker.
Friday, October 16 2009
Episode 4 - Sixty-two green bottles
Wednesday, September 16 2009
Episode 3 - The Great Divide
This month in The Wrong Bed the legendary Mike Gregory breaks his silence about the big split, Martin 'Wolfie' Adams explains why he will never play in the Grand Slam of Darts, and we illustrate quite how badly darts is portrayed on the radio - thanks to BBC Radio 4's The Archers. I'm knackered just thinking about it.
Sunday, August 16 2009
Episode 2 - Wade's world, party time!
James Wade tells us a lot of stuff he might regret, Sid Waddell says a load of things we don't understand, and US Sitcomes come under the dartoscope. Even Angela Merkel makes a surprise appearance.
Thursday, July 16 2009
Episode 1 - Vegas, baby!
The Wrong Bed launches with a Las Vegas Desert Classic Special. There's an extended interview with three times World Champion John Part, a preview of the World Matchplay, and Colin 'Jaws' Lloyd tells us about Jenny Priestley's breakfast. It could only be darts.