Podcast: Carpool

by Matt on 31 December 2009

llewtube.com Carpool is a weekly video cast with various interesting people, often celebrities of some form, hosted on the website of actor/presenter Robert Llewelyn.

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Pros

It has a brilliantly simple premise of Robert interviewing his guests whilst driving them somewhere they want to go. The guests themselves are chosen for being in someway fascinating, from celebs to authors and entrepreneurs. Thus it actually fits the bill as being funny and educating! Also there is a nice closeness for the fans of the show as you can get your questions in via Twitter.

It seems to be financed by Toyota as the action often takes place in a Prius and there is a fair bit of chat about this and electric cars etc. But it isn’t preachy and is more like tech-heads chatting about any other new kind of technology.

Cons

Can’t really find anything wrong with the content but does it even need to be in video format? It can get a bit frustrating watching it when for the most part nothing really happens (especially as you can’t put your iPod screen to sleep for videos and still get the sound). Surely it would work great as an audio cast, perhaps alongside the video version?

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