https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com Where do you stand on anything considered to be the "greatest of all time"...? For everything imagineered, cobbled together and fired out into an evolving culture, there’s a broad palette of opinions stretching all the way from bewilderment to be-wonderment and all that slots somewhere in between. The object of the Grazing GOATs podcast is to pluck individual entries out from those long lists of books, films, classical and contemporary compositions, poems, plays, paintings, speeches – frankly anything that sports a “greatest ever” lapel pin anywhere – and take a deeper dive to understand why they are (and if they should still be) counted among the greatest of all time.

]]> Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:42:30 +0100 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2026 All rights reserved. Arts 1440 episodic Andy Mack Andy Mack No false https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/22324778/Grazing_GOATs_cover_image_FINAL_smaller_size6xzia.png https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com 144 144 The FIFA World Cup - Part 1 https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e/fifaworldcup1/ https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e/fifaworldcup1/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:42:30 +0100 GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/5394af88-5268-3d6c-a59d-7e635bfd4dd1 Think you know all there is to know about the World Cup’s origins? If so, you’ll know that before the birth of world championship football in 1930… there was world championship football. You’ll also know all about the one-armed fox in the box, the tale of the two-ball diplomatic crisis, the Battle of Buenos Aires, and the story of the Romanian midfielder who rose from the dead and scared the life out of his mum.

  If all this is as baffling as the offside rule, however, part 1 of this Grazing GOATs bonus podcast explains how and why Jules Rimet got the world football ball rolling back in 1930. ]]> Think you know all there is to know about the World Cup’s origins? If so, you’ll know that before the birth of world championship football in 1930… there was world championship football. You’ll also know all about the one-armed fox in the box, the tale of the two-ball diplomatic crisis, the Battle of Buenos Aires, and the story of the Romanian midfielder who rose from the dead and scared the life out of his mum.

  If all this is as baffling as the offside rule, however, part 1 of this Grazing GOATs bonus podcast explains how and why Jules Rimet got the world football ball rolling back in 1930. ]]> Andy Mack false No 2199 1 6 bonus Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Ludwig van Beethoven - 1824 https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e/symphony-no-9-in-d-minor-ludwig-van-beethoven-1824/ https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e/symphony-no-9-in-d-minor-ludwig-van-beethoven-1824/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:07:31 +0100 GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e216ae5c-3123-3a31-92aa-fd36638f8db1 When Beethoven's final symphonic offering ode-ed joyously in the Austrian capital in May 1824, few would've thought they were listening to the simultaneous apotheosis of a revolutionary composer and the extensive canon of Western music itself. Most would've been thinking about the cost of the interval ice creams and that weird bit at the end of the gig when some deaf old fella with a face like a freshly slapped derriere had a crack at 'conducting'...

]]> When Beethoven's final symphonic offering ode-ed joyously in the Austrian capital in May 1824, few would've thought they were listening to the simultaneous apotheosis of a revolutionary composer and the extensive canon of Western music itself. Most would've been thinking about the cost of the interval ice creams and that weird bit at the end of the gig when some deaf old fella with a face like a freshly slapped derriere had a crack at 'conducting'...

]]> Andy Mack false No 2750 1 5 full Citizen Kane - 1941 https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e/citizenkane/ https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e/citizenkane/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:33:42 +0100 GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/1dbee628-06a0-356f-a3dd-5a503a712c15 "Probably the best film in the world...?" Many of us of a certain vintage will remember Orson Welles for the memorable marriage of his distinctive monotone with one of the world's best known adverts for Danish lager, but in 1941 he was a young man with no experience of filmmaking rewriting the filmmaker's playbook. Citizen Kane's mark could be seen in everything that followed, even if it didn't know its Rosebud from its elbow...

]]> "Probably the best film in the world...?" Many of us of a certain vintage will remember Orson Welles for the memorable marriage of his distinctive monotone with one of the world's best known adverts for Danish lager, but in 1941 he was a young man with no experience of filmmaking rewriting the filmmaker's playbook. Citizen Kane's mark could be seen in everything that followed, even if it didn't know its Rosebud from its elbow...

]]> Andy Mack false No 2315 1 4 full War and Peace - 1869 https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e/warandpeace/ https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e/warandpeace/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:07:31 +0100 GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e11ef3f3-eb8f-371a-8ce0-a5c42400b810 Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is the go-to titanic breeze block read for anyone sheltering from an atomic apocalypse, ploughing through a life sentence, or queueing for a Ryanair flight to Bydgoszcz. Tolstoy largely rewrote the entire novel and planned an equally weighty sequel which just goes to show what you can achieve when you don't own a telly or belong to a tennis club...

]]> Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is the go-to titanic breeze block read for anyone sheltering from an atomic apocalypse, ploughing through a life sentence, or queueing for a Ryanair flight to Bydgoszcz. Tolstoy largely rewrote the entire novel and planned an equally weighty sequel which just goes to show what you can achieve when you don't own a telly or belong to a tennis club...

]]> Andy Mack true No 2344 1 3 full Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 1967 https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e/sgtpepper/ https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e/sgtpepper/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:32:42 +0100 GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/db97637f-d7fd-3601-82b5-ee8b57fa24f9 Sgt. Pepper reinvented The Beatles, reinvented the album, and reinvented the recording studio as the magician's infinite sound sandbox. It turned on and tuned into the vibe of the burgeoning counterculture, elevated the humble moustache, and ushered in a kaleidoscope-eyed era of colour, cosmic wizardry, and nausea-inducing curtain and carpet patterns. It also inspired one of the most ill-advised cinematic releases of all time...

]]> Sgt. Pepper reinvented The Beatles, reinvented the album, and reinvented the recording studio as the magician's infinite sound sandbox. It turned on and tuned into the vibe of the burgeoning counterculture, elevated the humble moustache, and ushered in a kaleidoscope-eyed era of colour, cosmic wizardry, and nausea-inducing curtain and carpet patterns. It also inspired one of the most ill-advised cinematic releases of all time...

]]> Andy Mack false No 1917 1 2 full What's the Grazing GOATs podcast all about... Alfie? https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e/trailer/ https://GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/e/trailer/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:25:48 +0100 GrazingGOATs.podbean.com/811edcd5-fa4a-35dd-9e83-2ba63a7ea200 Welcome to the Grazing GOATs podcast, a format dedicated to all the creative outpourings that float to the top of the critical pot whenever ardent culture vultures tinker with their lists and league tables of genre-defining greatest hits. Before we peruse the à la carte GOAT menu, here's an amuse-bouche of the whats, whys and where-is-this-goings. Welcome, and enjoy!

]]> Welcome to the Grazing GOATs podcast, a format dedicated to all the creative outpourings that float to the top of the critical pot whenever ardent culture vultures tinker with their lists and league tables of genre-defining greatest hits. Before we peruse the à la carte GOAT menu, here's an amuse-bouche of the whats, whys and where-is-this-goings. Welcome, and enjoy!

]]> An introduction to the Grazing GOATs podcast. Andy Mack false No 391 1 trailer