In 2004, four Open Source Software fans from Wolverhampton started an Internet radio show. It ran for four years, had over two million downloads and spawned a string of live conferences. Often imitated, never bettered, this is the story of LugRadio.
Over the last two years, Tony Whitmore has been putting together a documentary about LugRadio, from start to finish. It's
excellent, if you'll excuse our massive swollen heads through having a film made about us. Go download
Don't Listen Alone: The Story of LugRadio and watch it. Damned good work, Tony.
It was often infuriating to listen to. Often I would be shouting at some of the unresearched opinionated drivel that you guys could cook up. Afterwards I would calm down and realise that you never pretended to be experts, just 4 guys talking and arguing as one does.
Your legacy remains the other podcasts that you inspired and I for one was encouraged to finally dump windows after listening both to yourselves & the TLLTS guys.
Congrats to everyone involved in making the video, it was a welcome reminder of the good old days.
I know that none of you could seriously believe the quote "Often imitated, never bettered" (well, maybe Jono), but I'm glad I discovered podcasts while you were broadcasting season 2! Who in their right mind would try and imitate some of those sketches??
Thanks again for awesome content and tons of arguments.