The Story of The Cycling Podcast

This is a three-part series commissioned and guest edited by Best Friends of The Cycling Podcast.

Each year we ask our Best Friends of the Podcast to submit an idea for an episode. This time three listeners submitted similar ideas which overlapped and so we decided to choose three guest editors. They wanted to know more about the origins and behind-the-scenes workings of The Cycling Podcast.

In part one, guest editor Jack Mckillop interviews Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe about the origins of The Cycling Podcast, asks whether there have been any creative differences along the way, and explores the key steps in the podcast's growth. He starts off by asking who had the idea for the podcast in the first place? As you'll hear in this episode Lionel sounds like he's recording in an echoey cupboard because he had the microphone plugged into the wrong port, answering one of the other common questions: 'Do things ever go wrong?'

In part two, Scott Emmons goes deep behind the scenes to find out how the episodes are put together, from the presenters recordings to the final edits created by our team of audio producers. He speaks to our first ever producer, Jon Moonie, about the early days, and our other producers Tom Whalley, Adam Bowie and Will Jones.

The final part, by Nick Busca, focuses on one of the most dramatic days in recent Tour de France history to find out what a typical day at the grand tours is like for The Cycling Podcast team. We go back to July 14, 2016, and the stage to Mont Ventoux which featured the incredible sight of Chris Froome running up the hill without his bike. How did Richard and Lionel make sense of things that day?

The series was produced by Huw Owen.

Series: Friends of the Podcast 2022

Part one: How it started, edited by Jack Mckillop. Run time: 1hr 44mins
Part two: How the sausage is made, edited by Scott Emmons. Run time: 1hr 05mins
Part three: A day on the road, edited by Nick Busca. Run time: 42mins