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Bobby Charlton was a legend on the pitch for Manchester United and England, a World Cup winner, European Cup Winner and England's leading goalscorer for decades. When his playing career ended he was a trusted advisor to the Manchester United board and a TV pundit. But one of his other lasting legacies was the Bobby Charlton Soccer Schools, which provided coaching and holiday breaks to generations of players, from David Beckham to kids who only ever played for fun. When my dad, Ken Goldman, interviewed Charlton in the 1980s the Soccer Schools were the main topic of discussion, and Bobby's love of the game and passion for helping the next generation of players shone through. Enjoy the pod and RIP Bobby Charlton

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This week's guest on Here Comes Pod is a star of the big screen and the small screen. Billy Campbell's leading role in Cardinal reminded audiences of a talent seen in movies like The Rocketeer and Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as standout TV series like Dynasty, The 4400 and The Killing. His next role is in Canadian thriller Something Undone, once again portraying a character with a dark past. We talked about working with Coppola, lessons learned from Sir Anthony Hopkins and how he almost missed out on Cardinal. Enjoy! 

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TV and football are passions for many, although few people have careers in both industries. But this week's guest on Here Comes Pod, Bernd Reichart, has been a senior executive in both TV and football. Bernd talks about his TV experience within the RTL Group, initially at Spain's Atresmedia Television before he returned to Germany to head up Vox and then become Group CEO of RTL Germany. Bernd now runs A22, a sports management group that hopes to bring changes to the way midweek club football operates and is governed in Europe.  Bernd shares his thinking on the current state of European football and how A22 plans to re-shape the way the game is set up going forward. Enjoy!   

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With a CV that includes overseeing massive hits like Dancing With The Stars, The Voice, The Apprentice and America's Got Talent, Paul Telegdy can rightly be called the King of entertainment programming. Paul joined me on Here Comes Pod to talk about life at the BBC, dealing with extraordinary people including a future President in his time as  Chairman of Entertainment at NBC, his new venture The Whole Spiel and how an Elvis show left him and me crying in the chapel. Enjoy! 

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The Premier League is back this weekend, and Tottenham Hotspur have been dominating the headlines in the run up to kick off. Whether it is the battle to keep their talismanic striker Harry Kane or the federal charges levelled at the "owner" Joe Lewis, the Spurs hierarchy, led by chairman Daniel Levy, have their hands full. So it's an interesting moment to look back at a previous era to see how leading a top flight football team has changed and to assess what has stayed the same. 

In November 1984 my dad, Ken Goldman, sat down with newly installed Spurs chairman Irving Scholar to discuss his approach to running the club, the relationship between chairman and manager, transparency and communication, and his passion for Tottenham Hotspur. It's a fascinating insight into Scholar, Tottenham and English football in the pre-Premier League era. Enjoy! 

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Kevin MacLellan joined me on Here Comes Pod this week to talk about a career that  spanned the titans of the television industry - MTV Networks, HBO, Sony Pictures, Comcast and NBC Universal, where he oversaw annual income of $5bn and 2,500 employees. That was a massive job and Kevin shares the inside track on how to steer a business of that size, the dynamics of Comcast's acquisition of Sky, the impact of digital disruption on global legacy media companies, and why boys will be boys. Enjoy!

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There is no better person to explain the current turmoil gripping Hollywood than Puck News co-founder and former Hollywood Reporter editorial director Matt Belloni. Matt's newsletter What I'm Hearing is the definitive insider's guide to the latest buzz in Tinseltown and his podcast The Town is a must-listen for anyone interested in the entertainment business. We discussed the place of reporters in the Hollywood ecosystem, the latest updates on the strikes that have paralysed the entertainment business and whether The Nanny represents the past or the AI-generated future for Hollywood. Enjoy!  

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This week's guest on Here Comes Pod is Sky entertainment supremo Zai Bennett. In a career that has spanned ITV, C5, the BBC and Sky, Zai has been involved in some of the most important moments in British broadcasting in the last quarter of a century. So we had a lot of ground to cover, from the birth of reality TV with TOWIE, navigating the creative and organisational juggernaut of the BBC, and marrying creativity, commerce and the customer at Sky with a slate of programming as diverse as Chernobyl, Gangs of London and A League Of Their Own that sit alongside the powerhouse shows of HBO. Enjoy!  

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Claire Enders joined me on this week's episode of Here Comes Pod to talk about her eponymously named company Enders Analysis. As you can imagine the interview turned into a whirlwind tour de force of anecdotes from Claire's unique career spent analysing the media industry, campaigning to protect democracy and the plurality of information options available to the public, as well as sharing her deep love of British political thought and culture. Enjoy!

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My guest this week is Sara Johnson, whose career in the TV business has encompassed script editing, drama producing and series commissioning. Whether it was honing material at Eastenders, heading up drama at Sky and Fox UK, or bringing the transformative BBC series The A Word to the screen at Keshet, Sara has always been associated with best in class material. She is now using that creative energy, taste and passion in her latest endeavor,  having launched Bridge06, a business that advises all parts of the TV and entertainment business in how to recognise and benefit from the value of deaf, disabled and neurodivergent talent. 

So please enjoy the podcast, but also reach out to Sara to see how Bridge06 can help everyone make the TV industry more inclusive and better at reflecting the world we live in. The Bridge06 website is here: https://bridge06.com/ and you can reach Sara at [email protected]

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