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Lateral: A Sideways Look – June 2025

A Sideways Look
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An exclusive podcast for Producer's Club members
Regular Lateral guest Kip Heath joins producer David Bodycombe to discuss their favourite questions from May 2025 (episodes 134 to 138).

Other ways…
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[Replay] 13: A glassware tax affair

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Cleo Abram, Simone Giertz and 'Legal Eagle' Devin Stone face questions about colossal chains, prudish paintings, and golden goblets.

Producer David says...
You may be wondering how we got the…
38:00

RSS feeds are fixed!

Updates
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I'm pleased to say that the finest minds at Memberful and Spotify have managed to fix the problem we were having with the members' ad-free RSS feed, and it should…

141: The world's longest poem

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Matt Gray, Daniel Peake and Charlotte Yeung face questions about slovenly sales, mystery meat and risky rabbits.

Producer David says...
I was delighted to be able to meet up with…
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Shiny Bonus Question #12

Shiny Bonus Questions
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A weekly 'Lateral' question, exclusively for members.

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[Replay] 12: The most-kissed woman in history

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Rowan Ellis, Vanessa Hill and Grady Hillhouse face questions about diehard disease, pill-popping performers, and ridiculous room numbers.

Producer David says...
Someone I know does the job mentioned in the…
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140: Tuvalu's lost star

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Ella Hubber, Caroline Roper and Tom Lum face questions about financial fish, biased battles and temperamental temperatures.

Producer David says...
As always when 'Let's Learn Everything!' are in the house…
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Shiny Bonus Question #11

Shiny Bonus Questions
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A weekly 'Lateral' question, exclusively for members.

HOW TO PLAY

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[Replay] 11: Who uses the 10-08-42 rule?

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Rowan Ellis, Vanessa Hill and Grady Hillhouse face questions about diehard disease, pill-popping performers, and ridiculous room numbers.

Producer David says...
Some great news! 'In-picture' captions are now working on…
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RSS feed maintenance

Updates
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The Spotify bods are doing maintenance on the RSS feed at the moment, so the ad-free Producer's Club member's feed will be unavailable for a while.

The main show and…

139: Unequal cufflinks

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Rowan Ellis, Dan Peake and Alec Watson face questions about cloud cover, sporting sons and deity displays.

Producer David says...
It can take quite a while to check that the…
40:08

Shiny Bonus Question #10

Shiny Bonus Questions
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A weekly 'Lateral' question, exclusively for members.

HOW TO PLAY

You can play this by yourself or with a group. First, read the question below. If you're playing with others…

[Replay] 10: The day that cost $700m

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Marques Brownlee, Wren Weichman and Hayley Loren discuss questions about clever communications, ridiculous registrations and distant destinations.

Producer David says...
There's a lot of very short questions in this one…
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David's Desk – June 2025 newsletter

Newsletter
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Hi, everyone!
June already? How did that happen? Anyway, a fair bit of stuff happening here at Lateral Towers so, as the youth of today say, let's get into it.

138: A confusing refreshment

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Mary Spender, Jarvis Johnson and Jordan Adika face questions about social sixes, safety signs and sales setbacks.

Producer David says...
There's a wonderful array of listener questions on this episode…
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Shiny Bonus Question #9

Shiny Bonus Questions
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A weekly 'Lateral' question, exclusively for members.

HOW TO PLAY

You can play this by yourself or with a group. First, read the question below. If you're playing with others…

NEW! Producer's Club Discord server (beta)

Updates
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Thanks for everyone who filled in our member survey the other day. Quite a number of you expressed interest in us running a Discord server for members, so we're going…

[Replay] 9: The purple seats mystery

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Corry Will, Luke Cutforth and Jade Tan-Holmes face questions about mysterious medicines, calamitous currency and dodgy dealings.

Producer David says...
The first 'main' question in this episode – about the…
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Question Pack #3 available

Question Packs
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Just to let you know that the third PDF question pack is available to download. Go to [hidden link] to get your goodies.

This contains questions from the April 2025 shows…

London live recording – update

Live events
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UPDATE

The pre-order period for Producer's Club members has now elapsed. Tickets are still available as below.

LIVE RECORDING

We're delighted to announce that we're doing another live recording in…