Worth a Minute

Mike Elder & Bex Elder
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The podcast where every word matters and each episode is carefully crafted to bring you interesting and entertaining content from a broad range of contributors. What can be covered in a meaningful fashion in podcast episodes that last just 60 seconds? Quite a lot, it turns out! Cicero is credited with saying, “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had time to make it shorter”. Our aim is to apply that principle to the 'Worth a Minute' podcast by cutting down content to its essence and then expressing it in a striking and memorable manner.

  1. S1 Ep 28 – Best Ever Question

    04/12/2023

    S1 Ep 28 – Best Ever Question

    Inspired by Krista Tippett’s assertion that there is something redemptive and life-giving about asking better questions, Kenny Primrose, creator of 'The Examined Life' Podcast, selects his best ever question. This show has been brought to you by Free Range Podcasting. Please listen to Trailer 3 and visit this page on our website if you would like to submit an episode of your own to be considered for publication as part of our ‘Best Evers’ season. Any queries or feedback can be sent to worthaminute@freerangepodcasting.co.uk. If you are interested in receiving news and updates about this podcast, please enter your details in the brief form to which you will be taken when you click on this link.

    1 min
  2. S1 Ep 27 – Best Ever ‘Dance Your Own Steps’ Movie

    04/05/2023

    S1 Ep 27 – Best Ever ‘Dance Your Own Steps’ Movie

    Mike's best ever ‘Dance Your Own Steps’ movie is Baz Luhrmann’s 1992 romantic comedy, ‘Strictly Ballroom’. Not only does the plot celebrate individual creativity and personal convictions, the film-making deliberately breaks barriers and is extravagantly entertaining. Ultimately, though, it also inspires, with its core message of ‘a life lived in fear is a life half-lived’ being epitomised by the lead character’s father finally breaking the shackles imposed on his own creativity to initiate the brilliant Paso Doble finale! It is truly a movie that dances all its own steps! This show has been brought to you by Free Range Podcasting. Please listen to Trailer 3 and visit this page on our website if you would like to submit an episode of your own to be considered for publication as part of our ‘Best Evers’ season. Any queries or feedback can be sent to worthaminute@freerangepodcasting.co.uk. If you are interested in receiving news and updates about this podcast, please enter your details in the brief form to which you will be taken when you click on this link.

    2 min
  3. S1 Ep 26 – Best Ever Anagrammatic Poem

    03/22/2023

    S1 Ep 26 – Best Ever Anagrammatic Poem

    Mike's best ever anagrammatic poem is David Shulman’s sonnet, ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’, inspired by Emanuel Leutze’s famous painting of the same name. Every line is an anagram of the painting’s title and yet the poem still works, even managing to include specialist, key references to the historical incident, including 'Redcoats', 'Continentals' and 'Hessian'! The best place to read the poem is on Wikipedia where you can watch an animation in which the letters beautifully circulate into new positions as each new line is displayed! This show has been brought to you by Free Range Podcasting. Please listen to Trailer 3 and visit this page on our website if you would like to submit an episode of your own to be considered for publication as part of our ‘Best Evers’ season. Any queries or feedback can be sent to worthaminute@freerangepodcasting.co.uk. If you are interested in receiving news and updates about this podcast, please enter your details in the brief form to which you will be taken when you click on this link.

    1 min
  4. S1 Ep 25 – Best Ever Compound Noun

    03/15/2023

    S1 Ep 25 – Best Ever Compound Noun

    Dave Elder contributes a second episode to the ‘Worth a Minute’ podcast, on this occasion selecting his best ever compound noun. German, with its unwavering determination to exploit any and all word combinations, was inevitably a strong contender to provide Dave’s favourite word produced from other words. In the end, though - despite strong competition from Spanish, Finnish and Icelandic - a Welsh word (literally meaning ‘pinging bakehouse’) won the day! This show has been brought to you by Free Range Podcasting. Please listen to Trailer 3 and visit this page on our website if you would like to submit an episode of your own to be considered for publication as part of our ‘Best Evers’ season. Any queries or feedback can be sent to worthaminute@freerangepodcasting.co.uk. If you are interested in receiving news and updates about this podcast, please enter your details in the brief form to which you will be taken when you click on this link.

    2 min
  5. S1 Ep 24 – Best Ever Anagram

    03/08/2023

    S1 Ep 24 – Best Ever Anagram

    Mike reviews the interesting history of anagrams, including the appointment by Louis XIII of a Royal Anagrammatist, Walter Begley’s Anagrammatic Bible and Galileo’s deliberately scrambled message to Johannes Kepler. Despite loving the fact that ‘A Decimal Point’ turns into ‘I'm a Dot in Place’, Mike plumps for a different option when selecting his best ever anagram and provides a numerical justification for his choice! This show has been brought to you by Free Range Podcasting. Please listen to Trailer 3 and visit this page on our website if you would like to submit an episode of your own to be considered for publication as part of our ‘Best Evers’ season. Any queries or feedback can be sent to worthaminute@freerangepodcasting.co.uk. If you are interested in receiving news and updates about this podcast, please enter your details in the brief form to which you will be taken when you click on this link.

    1 min
  6. S1 Ep 23 – Best Ever Nugget from Marcus Aurelius

    03/01/2023

    S1 Ep 23 – Best Ever Nugget from Marcus Aurelius

    Mike likes the way that Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, wrote ‘to himself’ in his ‘Meditations’ as Mike often puts things down on paper for his own benefit, hoping that it will help him to work out his view on a matter! Very often simple and succinct, the philosopher emperor’s observations and comments are thought provoking and memorable, including the following: “If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.” “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” “The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.” However, Mike’s best ever nugget from Marcus Aurelius is a statement that is centuries ahead of its time in its profound environmental significance: “That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.” This show has been brought to you by Free Range Podcasting. Please listen to Trailer 3 and visit this page on our website if you would like to submit an episode of your own to be considered for publication as part of our ‘Best Evers’ season. Any queries or feedback can be sent to worthaminute@freerangepodcasting.co.uk. If you are interested in receiving news and updates about this podcast, please enter your details in the brief form to which you will be taken when you click on this link.

    1 min
  7. S1 Ep 22 – Best Ever Abseil

    02/22/2023

    S1 Ep 22 – Best Ever Abseil

    Mike’s best ever abseil is the seventeen metre descent from the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye, purely because it meant that he didn’t have to revisit the mountain’s ‘knife-edged ridge’, which has been described as having 'an overhanging and infinite drop on one side, and a drop on the other side even steeper and longer'! If, however, you feel somewhat short changed by this risk averse celebration, look up Mike’s best ever YouTube video, which shows Danny MacAskill taking Munro bagging to a whole new level as he scales the In Pinn, without being roped up, while carrying his mountain bike! This show has been brought to you by Free Range Podcasting. Please listen to Trailer 3 and visit this page on our website if you would like to submit an episode of your own to be considered for publication as part of our ‘Best Evers’ season. Any queries or feedback can be sent to worthaminute@freerangepodcasting.co.uk. If you are interested in receiving news and updates about this podcast, please enter your details in the brief form to which you will be taken when you click on this link.

    2 min
  8. S1 Ep 21 – Best Ever Poem for Dark Times

    02/15/2023

    S1 Ep 21 – Best Ever Poem for Dark Times

    It may seem odd that Mike has a ‘best ever poem for dark times', but his argument is that if a poem captures the intensity of emotions and conveys those feelings in a striking manner, it can impel us to reflect in a new way on our circumstances. The achievement of Gerard Manley Hopkins in ‘No worst, there is none.’ is to explore and probe - within the fourteen-line constraints of a sonnet - the depths of human depression through language, sounds and imagery. This show has been brought to you by Free Range Podcasting. Please listen to Trailer 3 and visit this page on our website if if you would like to submit an episode of your own to be considered for publication as part of our ‘Best Evers’ season. Any queries or feedback can be sent to worthaminute@freerangepodcasting.co.uk. If you are interested in receiving news and updates about this podcast, please enter your details in the brief form to which you will be taken when you click on this link.

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The podcast where every word matters and each episode is carefully crafted to bring you interesting and entertaining content from a broad range of contributors. What can be covered in a meaningful fashion in podcast episodes that last just 60 seconds? Quite a lot, it turns out! Cicero is credited with saying, “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had time to make it shorter”. Our aim is to apply that principle to the 'Worth a Minute' podcast by cutting down content to its essence and then expressing it in a striking and memorable manner.

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  • Creator
    Mike Elder & Bex Elder
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2023
  • Episodes
    31
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Copyright 2023 Mike Elder & Bex Elder
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