Mark and Pete
Hosted by Mark and Pete · Successful Minds
5.0from 591 ratings
- 746
- Episodes
- 41
- Transcribed
- 591
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
- 154K
- YouTube views
About Mark and Pete
What on earth is going on? Mark & Pete have a few thoughts. A weekly British podcast about news, politics, culture, faith and the peculiar things people do. Mark and Pete tackle the big headlines and the smaller stories that probably tell us rather more about ourselves than we’d like. Theme music : Title Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Publisher
- Successful Minds
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Aug 2014
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
41 of 746 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Esther Rantzen: The Consumer Queen Who Changed People's Lives
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Esther Rantzen: The Consumer Queen Who Changed People's Lives
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] She was born in Birkhamstead in Hertfordshire in 1940. Now, ironically, her parental ancestors were Polish Jews and her father, Henry, worked as a broadcast engineer for the BBC. Now, of course, Bright Esther was somebody who was very entrepreneurial and also very ambitious. She started as a journalist and actually worked on a program for many people in Britain would know Braden's Week, which was actually a consumer program. Yes, you can see where some of the ideas started to be born. But I think that it's interesting. that when she took over as a lead presenter of That's Life, which actually was launched in May 1973, it goes all the way back that far, and it ran for over 20 years, a program that I think was pioneering because it had both serious and silly aspects to it. […]
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- YouTube views
- 154,349
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 6 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 585 ratings
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- 94
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 82
- Engagement
- 76
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