Summary
Greg Foot introduces a new series from the team that brought you Sliced Bread.
In Toast, Sean Farrington examines the wonder products and businesses that promised so much at launch but ultimately crashed and burned. With the help of industry experts, he asks what went wrong and what - if anything - they could have done differently.
Toast is available in the Sliced Bread feed on BBC Sounds.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
| 0:15.3 | including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane, |
| 0:18.4 | and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder. |
| 0:23.2 | You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, and the best part is free. |
| 0:28.1 | To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires.org slash fringe. |
| 0:34.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:38.7 | Hello, it's Greg here. |
| 0:41.7 | Just a quick one to let you know that the team and I are taking a short break to prepare our next batch of sliced bread episodes for you. |
| 0:45.0 | Also, while I'm away, there is going to be a guest podcast popping up here in the |
| 0:49.1 | sliced bread feed on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:51.0 | It's called Toast. |
| 0:52.5 | And to tell you more about it, here is the host of Toast, |
| 0:55.0 | Sean Farrington. From BBC Radio 4 and the team behind the hit series sliced bread comes |
| 1:00.7 | toast. A look at the wonder products which left their backers burnt. I'm Sean Farrington, |
| 1:08.2 | BBC business journalist, and in each episode I'm going to be having a look and studying one product or business idea. |
| 1:15.0 | We'll hear about the hype. |
| 1:16.5 | It's a revolution in personal transport. |
| 1:19.2 | You can have all the delicious pleasures of eating donuts and cookies without the calories. |
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