One Life Left is Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

's first and only dedicated videogames

VideoGames

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 FM radio show. It is presented by Ste Curran

Ste Curran

Stephen Curran is a British video game journalist, presenter, author, and game designer.He was an editor at Edge magazine, also writing under the name RedEye...

, Simon Byron

Simon Byron

Simon Byron is a British video game presenter, PR representative and author.He is a presenter on Resonance FM's video game radio show and podcast One Life Left....

 and Ann Scantlebury

Ann Scantlebury

Ann Scantlebury is a radio show presenter and actress.Scantlebury currently co-presents the popular video game radio show One Life Left, on Resonance FM...

. Earlier host Robert Howells stopped appearing on the show, to be later replaced by Simon. It includes news, reviews, features, competitions and a weekly studio guest. One Life Left is broadcast on Resonance FM

Resonance FM

Resonance 104.4 FM is a London based non-profit community radio station run by the London Musicians' Collective .The station is staffed by four permanent staff members, including programme controller Ed Baxter and over 300 volunteer technical and production staff.Until September 2007, ResonanceFM...

, a London community radio

Community radio

Community radio is a type of radio service, that offers a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting. Community stations can serve geographic communities and communities of interest...

 station at 19:00 every Monday, and is available as a podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

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Guests and features

One Life Left is presented in a magazine style, with guests and features. Guests have included industry figures such as Jon Hare

Jon Hare

Jon "Jops" Hare is a British computer game designer, game artist and musician. He is one of the two founder members and directors, with Chris Yates, of Sensible Software, one of the most successful European games development companies of the late 1980s and 1990s.Hare was co-designer and artist of...

, Charles Cecil

Charles Cecil

Charles Cecil MBE has worked in the interactive entertainment industry for 25 years. He is currently operating as Managing Director for UK based company Revolution Software which has released such critical and commercial hits as Beneath a Steel Sky and the Broken Sword series...

, Paul Rose and comedian and presenter Joe Cornish

Joe Cornish (comedian)

Joseph Murray "Joe" Cornish is an English comedian, television and radio presenter, director, writer and actor, who along with his long-time comedy partner, Adam Buxton, form the comedy duo Adam and Joe....

. Features range from comedy sketches (for example, Craig 'The Rage' McClelland's video game poetry and Ms. Snac-Man's "gaming recipes") to views from the industry (for example, Derek Williams' Free Market Economy, from the perspective of a market stall owner) and game reviews (for example Talia Reviews Nintendo Games Because They Are For Kids).

One Life Left has also recorded from the Develop Conference and Expo. In 2010 they hosted One Laugh Left as part of Nottingham Gamecity

Gamecity

GameCity is an independent, annual videogame festival in Nottingham, England. The festival is aimed at the general public, and many events allow members of the public to participate freely. The festival receives little funding from the commercial video game industry, and is concerned instead with...

 5. This was billed as a night of stand up comedy about video gaming and included turns from each of the three presenters.

Critical reaction

The video games website Kotaku

Kotaku

Kotaku is a video games-focused blog. It is part of Gawker Media's "Gawker" network of sites, which also includes Gizmodo, Deadspin, Lifehacker, io9 and Jezebel. Named to CNET News' Blog 100, Kotaku is consistently listed in the top 40 of Technorati's Top 100...

 considered One Life Left to be "a sweet blend of light-hearted discussion, music, interviews and ridiculous features", pointing out its uniqueness in gaming and in radio. Guardian Unlimited

Guardian Unlimited

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's Aleks Krotoski

Aleks Krotoski

Aleksandra K. "Aleks" Krotoski is an American broadcaster and journalist, currently based in the UK, who writes about technology and interactivity. She presents The Guardian podcast Tech Weekly and contributes to guardian.co.uk...

 and Keith Stuart have both commented on the quality of the show's podcasts.

One Life Left was nominated for the "Best Games Podcast" category both the 2007 and 2008 Games Media Awards, and in 2009, won the GMA "Best Podcast/Broadcast" award.

One Life Left was considered one of the ten best podcasts by thelondonpaper

Thelondonpaper

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Music to Play Games By

In December 2008, One Life Left released Music to Play Games By, a compilation CD of music inspired by video games. It was arranged by Simon Parkin and produced by Andrew Smillie. The album covers various videogame themes and styles, and has been described as "chip

Chiptune

A chiptune, also known as chip music, is synthesized electronic music often produced with the sound chips of vintage computers and video game consoles, as well as with other methods such as emulation. In the early 1980s, personal computers became cheaper and more accessible than they had previously...

-indie". Kotaku considered the album to be an excellent collection of "chiptunes, remixes, even normal songs that are just written about games."

External links

• One Life Left home page
• One Life Left's Archive