IGN UK Podcast #298: Why the BBC's Coding Season Was a Disappointment

IGN UK Podcast

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Leisure, Video Games

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The BBC's film about the making of GTA starring Daniel Radcliffe aired this week, and was a big part of the BBC's coding season, but it wasn't all that good or interesting. Alex, Gav, and Krupa discuss why it was such a flop and why it failed to really address what's interesting about the GTA story. We also go through all of the week's most delicious and most suspicious stuff. Go on, give it a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm Gave Murphy and this week I'm joined by... I'm joined by... I've got a
0:06.4	Gave Murphy and this week I'm joined by... I've got to do it...
0:12.0	Yes, do it. I'll be a
0:13.7	Daniel Cooper. Hello and Alex Simmons here we go and this week we've been not
0:20.7	enjoying the BBC's do you see which has been on BBC all week.
0:26.4	And it's like a sort of initiative, it's called like Digital First or something like that,
0:30.0	about getting people into coding.
0:33.3	So we first heard about this a while ago.
0:36.6	And in principle, I thought it sounds like a great idea.
0:40.3	You know, a big corporation like the BBC massive media giant getting behind something that we all believe in it's brilliant industry the games industry
0:47.6	Wouldn't it be great to show such a thing such a successful industry in a positive light.
0:54.0	And it hasn't really?
0:55.0	It hasn't.
0:56.0	No.
0:57.0	Not really.
0:58.0	Some of it has.
0:59.0	Most of it hasn't, I think.
1:00.0	Must be balanced like the BBC?
1:01.0	Yes.
1:02.0	Well, I think the worst thing really that's what they
1:04.6	stri for balance they do but I'm not sure they know to achieve it I I think the
1:09.3	BBC get unfairly slagged off quite a lot because I think the BBC is brilliant but like the main
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