Pop World Cup – Radio Roundup 1
Oh Lordy! It’s Peter Baran and Roger Bozack in the studio with a complete half-hour recap – including songs – of the tournament results so far. Which at this point means Group A. Los Shakers, Pitch...
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Peter Baran and Roger Bozack re-ensconce themselves in the booth with all the action and results from Group B’s first round of matches – Argentina v Nigeria and Greece v South Korea. We hear from...
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The Group of Death! Or is it? After an inconclusive start to the Group B battle, Peter Baran (doing double duty as manager of Team USA) and Roger Bozack are joined in the booth by the manager of the...
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Group D sees our first taste of scandal as Peter Baran questions the ancestral authenticity of the German entry, Heinz, whose fuzzy guitar rock paces Australia’s Sneaky Sound System step for step. And...
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Our Group E round-up sees Roger Bozack off to cover the Pop Winter olympics so it falls to analyst Pete Baran to helm the coverage in South Africa. The first all Europe tie, Denmark vs Netherlands,...
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Our Group F round-up sees Roger Bozack still Missing In Action (or Mr Inaction as his wife calls him) so iPete Baran and Steve Mannion continue their coverage in South Africa. The metal hell of Italy...
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First-round Group G results here as Roger Bozack returns to the booth with Peter Baran and special deputy ambassador Mark Sinker to discuss all the high and lowlights. Despite a temporary hostage...
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Special DPRK adjutant liaison Mark Sinker again joins Peter Baran and Roger Bozack in PWC2010′s luxurious control suite, this time for some surprising results from the Group H matches between...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Find Us On Resonance FM 104.4
Fans of the Radio Roundup, do not despair – we haven’t gone away entirely, we’re just moving to Resonance FM 104.4 on Saturdays at 4pm, where we’ll be covering the matches currently in progress instead...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Group Stage Round 2 – C and D
A huge, ever-growing, pulsating radio show that’s now broadcast on Saturdays at 4pm on Resonance FM 104.4 in London, the Pop World Cup returns in podcast form this week with a two-fer (we’re catching...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Group Stage Round 2 – E and F
Finally! The Pop World Cup on Resonance 104.4 FM in London catches up with the action on Freaky Trigger – ALL the matches on the show (at time of posting) are live and votable. Peter Baran and Roger...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Weekend Update – G and H
A brace of forward play and rasping cross-field action awaits as Peter Baran joins Roger Bozack via satellite for Brazil vs Cote D’Ivoire, Portugal vs Korea DPR, Honduras vs Spain, and Chile vs...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Weekend Update – A B C and D
Martin Skidmore, manager of the Algerian team, joins Peter Baran and Roger Bozack for the most action-packed week yet. The final round of the group stage is bearing down on us – who will go through and...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Weekend Update – E F G and H
Sixteen songs in thirty minutes! It’s like lunch in a pill. Roger Bozack and Peter Baran race through this week’s jam-packed schedule to bring you foreshortened highlights of some matches and extended...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Weekend Update – Goodbye to Groups
With the winning teams resting and limbering up for the trials ahead, Roger Bozack takes time out from the putting green to share some of his favourite efforts from those nations who found themselves...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Weekend Update – Round of 16
We’re back to live action this week as senior pop analyst and USA manager Peter Baran joins Roger Bozack for the kickoff of the Round of 16. With every match a decider, the managers are pulling out all...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Weekend Update – Round of 16 – 2
Two Pop World Cup managers in the studio this week, but hope is alive for only one of them. Honduras manager Steve Hewitt sits in with Roger Bozack and a bereft Peter Baran as Hewitt’s Honduran squad...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Weekend Update – Round of 16 Roundup
Sixteen nations – but only eight can advance. It’s a cruel game. No matter the quality of play, in the Pop World Cup there must be winners and there must be losers. Peter Baran joins Roger Bozack via...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Weekend Update – The Quarterfinals
Roger Bozack gets Peter Baran down the line from Capetown to take in all the action from the Pop World Cup 2010 Quarterfinals. In an all-African tie Nigeria battles Ghana for the host continent crown,...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Weekend Update – Quarterfinal Results
With Roger Bozack pulling a sickie, it falls to Eli Sessions to join Peter Baran in the booth for all the quarterfinal results. In the sporting tradition for which the Weekend Update has become justly...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Weekend Update – SEMIFINALS
Roger Bozack returns from his mysterious illness and joins Peter Baran in the broadcast booth as the crucible of this Pop World Cup gets amplified to the breaking point – tossed on the horns of a...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Weekend Update – THE FINAL
Tom Ewing joins Peter Baran and Roger Bozack in the broadcast booth for the simulcast of the championship match between Germany and Nigeria and gets raked over the coals about this year’s voting...
View ArticlePop World Cup – Weekend Update – WRAP
Well you all know what happened. Now Roger Bozack and Peter Baran set up camp in the eerily empty Media Center in Johannesburg, abandoned coffee cups littering the floor, and try to make some sense of...
View ArticlePop World Cup 2014 – Groups List
UPDATE: Finally sent out details. If you are a manager listed here and you haven’t got them then a) check your spam folder and b) shout at me cos I probably got your email wrong… UPDATE 2:...
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