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The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast

Hosted by Samuel Roberts and Matthew Castle.

Show website ↗ Listen on Apple ↗

Should you pitch it?

Guest activity
Sometimes has guests
25% of recent episode titles look like interviews
Episode length
117 min
Median of recent episodes. That is the commitment you would be asking for.
Publishing
Weekly+
304 episodes · last 2026-09-04
Language
English
The feed says "en" without a region, so the country is unknown.
Where it's from
Not established
No .uk domain and no region in the feed language. Apple reports the storefront, not the show, so we do not guess.
Reach
83
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Worth a pitch. This show publishes its own contact, sits outside the national chart, is independently published, and its recent episodes show it books guests.

What the show says about itself

Games media writers Matthew Castle (NGamer, Rock Paper Shotgun) and Samuel Roberts (PC Gamer, gamesTM, TechRadar) talk about video games and their years covering them professionally. Our logo is by John Strike, and our theme tune is by Barry 'Epoch' Topping (@nostoppingepoch on Twitter). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recent episodes

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  1. What We've Been Playing (Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Star Wars: Zero Company, Guns of Eschaton, Super Mario Sunshine)
  2. A Few Game Design Crimes More (with Jamie Smith)
  3. The Nintendo DS + 3DS Mega Draft (with Dave Scarborough and Ashley Day)
  4. What We've Been Playing (Splatoon Raiders, Denshattack!, The Incident at Galley House, Big Walk, Onimusha 2)
  5. Two Giant Men Play Halo: Campaign Evolved + Backseat Design the Next Halo Game
  6. How to Make a Sequel to a Successful Video Game (with Jay Baylis)

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