Calum Best, Mike McShane and Lewis MacLeod
Off the Ball Podcast
BBC
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The most petty and ill informed podcast in the world tries to get cultured this week by heading through to the Edinburgh Festival. Tam Cowan and Ray Bradshaw chat to Calum Best about his famous dad and his life as a reality TV star, catch up with arguably the greatest impressionist on the planet (and Off the Ball alumni) Lewis MacLeod and the brilliant Mike McShane shares his memories of fan boying over Sean Connery on the set of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of the Off the Ball podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | For full terms and conditions of use, please go to our website, |
| 0:08.4 | BBC.co.com.uk slash off the ball and follow the links to the podcast page. |
| 0:13.7 | You're the best around. |
| 0:17.3 | Nothing's going to ever keep you down. |
| 0:19.4 | We're the best. |
| 0:20.7 | Or now. Nothing's going to ever keep you down You're the best for now |
| 0:21.5 | Nothing's going to ever keep you down |
| 0:24.3 | You're the best |
| 0:25.2 | Oh wow |
| 0:26.3 | So, Callum, that was your entrance music |
| 0:28.6 | I get the feeling |
| 0:29.7 | That would also have been |
| 0:31.1 | The Sting for Love Island |
| 0:33.0 | Or Celebrity Big Brother when you did it |
| 0:34.5 | Have you had that a lot? |
| 0:35.3 | One of the 500 shows I've done, yeah? |
| 0:38.3 | One over the years Your Wikipedia is something by, by the way. Don't. I try not to look. If I meet someone new, I say, please don't Google. How many reality shows have you done, Call? There's been a fair few. I moved here when I was 20, and I did my first one there, and I'm 44 now. And my last one was last year. But the last one I did was my favorite, and it was S-A-S. |
| 0:38.5 | You know? 20 and I did my first one there and I'm 44 now. And my last one was last year. |
| 0:54.9 | But the last one I did was my favorite and it was S-A-S. |
| 0:58.2 | You know? |
| 0:58.5 | Oh yes. |
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