Worth a Minute

Mike’s best ever memorial to an item of footwear is the Boot Monument, which marks the location where Benedict Arnold was wounded in the leg on 7 October 1777, during the Battle of Saratoga.

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Dave Elder is our first ever guest contributor to the Worth a Minute podcast. He selects a trip to the ‘Lost City’ of Colombia as his best ever trek and explains why it was not only a memorable and enjoyable expedition but also a very humbling experience.

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Mike confesses to having been an inveterate dictionary browser, with his best ever random discovery of a definition being “mallemaroking”: the carousing of sailors on icebound Greenland whaling ships!

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Bex explains why Nicholas Winton is her best ever hidden hero.

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In the absence of universally agreed criteria for selecting a best ever ruined fortress, Mike puts forward a number of reasons to support his claim that Dunnottar Castle, near Stonehaven, Scotland, deserves that accolade.

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Grappling with the conundrum of selecting a Best Ever Plotline of 'Neighbours', Bex considers various possibilities before opting for the Jacob Marley-inspired visitation by Jim Robinson in which he urges his son, Paul, to turn from his wicked ways!

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Faced with the difficult choice of selecting his Best Ever Opening Sentence of a Novel, Mike opts for ‘Moby Dick’ on the basis that its three-word curtain-raiser packs a punch and compels the reader to continue in order to discover answers to the intriguing questions posed.

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Mike explains that to kick off the ‘Best Evers’ season, he has revisited a 2004 article in a pupil newspaper, which featured a double page spread of ‘Best Ever’ choices submitted by staff and pupils from across the school, including the following:

• Best Ever Pet – a fire salamander called Ivan
• Best Ever Goldfish – Bubbles
• Best Ever Hair Gel – DAX Wax
• Best Ever Skateboard Moves – Big Spin and Ollie
• Best Ever Theme Park Ride – Hulk Coaster
• Best Ever Bit of Grammar – Dangling Modifier
• Best Ever Car – Aston Martin DB4GT
• Best Ever Live Performance – ZZ Top in concert at the Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, in 1983
• Best Ever Piece of 19th Century Legislation – the 1802 Health and Morals of Apprentices Act

Almost twenty years on, this piece of pupil journalism still works and has also provided the inspiration for the inaugural ‘Worth a Minute’ podcast season, which is why it is Mike’s best ever ‘Best Evers’ article!

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Mike explains that the hope is that the ‘Worth a Minute’ podcast will be a collaborative activity, with many different people contributing content.

Mike provides the pointers noted below for anyone interested in submitting an episode for consideration:

1. Identify a ‘Best Ever’ item, experience, memory etc that you would like to share
2. Plan a script that will do it justice and will make an impact on your audience
3. Record your script, taking care to make your audio as clean and clear as possible
4. Review your recording - check that it’s between 45 and 75 seconds long and do your best to deal with any glitches
5. Email your file (ideally in .wav or .mp3 format) to [email protected], or email us at that address to arrange a file transfer.

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Mike introduces Season 1 of the ‘Worth a Minute’ podcast – 'Best Evers' - explaining that a contributor will select a favourite item, experience, event, activity, memory etc and will then outline the ‘why?’, describing why it is a ‘best ever’ for them.

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