The Magic Roundabout
Join Lionel Birnie and Simon Gill as they spend a season on the road following the fortunes of their home town team, Hemel Hempstead Town. Their adventure takes them from Farnborough to Farnham, Maidstone to Maidenhead, and Torquay to Truro as they tell stories from the terraces, the dugout, the changing room and the boardroom. The Magic Roundabout is a Peloton Podcast, with series producer Tom Whalley.
Episodes
3: On the road with the Birchams | Episode 3 | Home and Away with The Tudors
It’s Hemel Hempstead Town’s first away game of the season and, with Lionel on holiday, Simon Gill is flying solo.Perhaps that’s appropriate because the destination is Farnborough, home of the famous air show.Simon picks up the gaffer, Lee Bircham, and his younger brother Marc (who is still a terrace hero at QPR) for a memorable road trip.On the way to Hampshire, they talk about anything but footb
2: 'This place was as flat as a Yorkshireman's hat a minute ago' | Episode 2 | Home and Away with The Tudors
This is The Magic Roundabout... It's the opening day of the National League South season. A pair of inflatables of King Henry the Eighth beckon us towards the Focus Community Arena for Hemel Hempstead Town's first home game, against highly fancied Chelmsford City.The sun is shining, the air crackles with excitement and the turnstiles clack to signal the start of the new campaign. Lionel's even go
1: 'You need to sign a waiver' | Episode 1 | Home and Away with The Tudors
This is The Magic Roundabout, a podcast about football, friendship and passing fifty...Home and away with The Tudors. A season on the road with Hemel Hempstead Town FC.Lionel Birnie and Simon Gill grew up two doors down from each other. As kids in the Eighties they played hours of football in the back garden, devised lengthy Subbuteo tournaments, and wore their Watford kits everywhere. In short,
Trailer: The Magic Roundabout – Home and Away with The Tudors
Welcome to The Magic Roundabout, a podcast series taking listeners on the road, and behind-the-scenes, at Hemel Hempstead Town as they complete a 46-game season in the sixth tier of English football.You may have heard Lionel Birnie and Simon Gill on The Cycling Podcast, riding to each of the Scottish League grounds in the Tour d'Écosse.Now they are going on adventure, following the fortunes of th
