{"podcast":{"title":"The Cycling Podcast","slug":"the-cycling-podcast-745279","podcast_index_feed_id":745279,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/1405050.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/1405050","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43197821.jpg","author":"The Cycling Podcast","episode_count":500,"summary":"The Cycling Podcast takes listeners to the heart of professional cycling with weekly episodes and daily coverage of the Grand Tours. Join journalists Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie – and a few special guests along the way – as they podcast about the latest cycling news and the world of professional cycling. Founded by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie in 2013, The Cycling Podcast is one of the longest-running independent sports podcasts. To support The Cycling Podcast, subscribe as a Friend of the Podcast to join our community, listen to special episodes released throughout the year and access our archive stretching back to 2015. Subscribe at thecyclingpodcast.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T18:20:01.514776+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cycling-podcast-745279"},"episode":{"title":"KM0: The Revolution Will Be Televised","slug":"km0-the-revolution-will-be-televised","published_at":"2026-07-10T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cycling-podcast-745279/km0-the-revolution-will-be-televised","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cycling-podcast-745279","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8926132","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8926132.mp3?modified=1783672312&sid=1405050&source=rss","summary":"This episode is the first in a three-part series examining the lasting importance of the 1986 Tour de France, 40 years on. It's available here for a limited time, as well as ad-free for our Friends of the Podcast subscribers. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com In 1986, Channel 4 – a relatively new station – broadcast nightly highlights of the Tour de France for the first time in Britain. From the opening refrain of Pete Shelley's brilliant theme tune, the studio set with its view of a Soho street in central London, the Tour coverage left a huge impression on anyone who saw it. The half-hour show took viewers on the perfect summer road trip around France. The commentary sounded like it was coming to us from the future. It ushered us in, night after night, explaining this strange sport's history, customs and etiquette gradually before leaving us bereft on the Champs-Élysées until the next summer. In this episode, Graham Willgoss speaks to Phil Liggett, the commentator when the Tour first hit British screens. And Lionel Birnie talks to James Venner, the son of Brian Venner, who was responsible for putting cycling on TV in the UK. James later spent more than two decades working as a producer on the ITV coverage of the Tour. We hear how the Tour captured our hearts in '86, created the first great cycling boom in Britain, led eventually to live coverage of not just the Tour but many other races and also inspired a generation of journalists and writers, including, in many ways our KM0 episodes. This episode was produced by Adam Bowie. Artwork by Lionel Birnie, featuring the old Channel 4 title imagery.","meta_description":"This episode is the first in a three-part series examining the lasting importance of the 1986 Tour de France, 40 years on. It's available here for a limit…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5327,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-cycling-podcast-745279/episodes/km0-the-revolution-will-be-televised/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cycling-podcast-745279/km0-the-revolution-will-be-televised.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}