{"id":87146,"date":"2026-06-08T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=87146"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:15:32","slug":"scottish-podcast-awards-edinburgh-fringe-classic-baseball-radio-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/06\/scottish-podcast-awards-edinburgh-fringe-classic-baseball-radio-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Not One But Two Podcast Award Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two of my podcasts I work on have been nominated for the first Scottish Podcast Awards<\/a>. Set up as “part of a wider mission to spotlight Scottish creative industries and strengthen Scotland\u2019s position as a modern creative hub\u201d, it has acknowledged a wide range of podcasts, including several smaller players, and it’s worth exploring the nominations list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do find it disappointing that an awards show meant to raise awareness and increase the visibility of the Scottish podcast scene does not offer any direct links to the nominated podcasts<\/strong>. Spotify are one of the key sponsors, and one of the biggest podcast destinations has only one playlist of nominated shows, those in the Listeners’ Choice category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Classic Baseball Radio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nominated for Best Sports Podcast<\/strong> (classicbaseballradio.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long ago, baseball ruled the radio waves in America<\/a>, and the commentator\u2019s voice was trusted and beloved by the fans of every team. Yet the stations could not afford to send their teams out \u201con the road\u201d to away games, and the technology to bring a live signal from the likes of Chicago to Boston was not readily available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcasters came up with another solution: a junior reporter would travel to the game and send back basic information by telegraph. This was passed to the commentator, who would take a message such as \u201cKKBB43\u201d and spin it into two minutes of the game, mixing improv, fact, theatre, and reporting over three hours<\/a> to bring the game to the listeners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With today\u2019s online records of baseball games<\/a> going back to the 19th century, it\u2019s possible to recreate these telegraph messages and present a full radio broadcast of a game from history. And that\u2019s exactly what Classic Baseball Radio does. Each episode is a full baseball game from the history books, complete with sound effects and audio work to replicate AM radio, bookended by the significance of the players and the events featured in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a history podcast, live sports broadcast, and an ASMR collection all in one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Edinburgh Fringe Show, With Ewan Spence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nominated for Scotland\u2019s Emerging Talent<\/strong> (edinburghfringe.thepodcastcorner.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Edinburgh Fringe Show is a lot easier to explain; it\u2019s an interview show for the Edinburgh Fringe featuring a wide range of voices from across the world of Fringe theatre. It\u2019s old enough that there weren\u2019t any complicated thoughts on branding; it was a podcast about the Edinburgh Fringe, so that was the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the Fringe\u2019s return after the pandemic lockdowns, I\u2019ve pushed my name into the title to help make it a little easier to search for, but otherwise it\u2019s essentially the same show. Find interesting people, ask them what they do, and listen to their stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show has aired over a thousand interviews since its launch, and the adventure begins again in July with four Fringe previews before the madness of August starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is, of course, a small administrative note around the \u2018emerging talent\u2019 category\u2026 this Fringe podcast was nominated for a Best Interactive Media BAFTA in 2005<\/a>. I guess it\u2019s true what they say about overnight success taking twenty-one years of podcast publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m thrilled to note that my Classic Baseball Radio and Edinburgh Fringe podcasts have both been nominated for the inaugural Scottish Podcast Awards 2026, the first for Best Sports Podcast, and the second for (ahem) Scotland\u2019s Emerging Talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false},"categories":[1839,1145,26,3,18],"tags":[2385,6036,6207,380,6210,6211,6209,6208],"class_list":["post-87146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edinburgh-fringe-podcasting-multimedia","category-fringe-personal-thoughts-and-messages","category-multimedia","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","category-podcasting","tag-baseball","tag-classic-baseball-radio","tag-cottish-podcast-awards","tag-edinburgh-fringe","tag-edinburgh-fringe-podcast","tag-fringe-podcast","tag-podcast-award-nomination","tag-podcast-awards","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ewanspence_wbsc_podcast_commentator.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-mFA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87154,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87146\/revisions\/87154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}