Charlie Rosen, bandleader, The 8-bit Big Band.

Charlie Rosen, bandleader, The 8-bit Big Band.

Charlie Rosen is a Grammy award-winning musician, composer, and arranger whose work sits at the intersection of jazz, pop, and video game nostalgia. As the founder and leader of The 8-bit Big Band, a 35-piece jazz-pops orchestra, he had transformed classic video game soundtracks into virtuosic symphonic showstoppers.


Under his direction, the ensemble has reimagined themes from Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Sonic the Hedgehog, with flair—earning critical acclaim, viral attention, and a devoted global audience. The band’s latest album, Orchestrator Emulator, was named Jazz Album of the Week by The Sunday Times and continues my guest’s mission to build what he calls “The Great Video Game Songbook.”

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Heather Anne Campbell, comedian, screenwriter (Rick and Morty).

Heather Anne Campbell, comedian, screenwriter (Rick and Morty).

My guest today is an Emmy-nominated writer, sketch comedian, voice actor and performer. As a teenager she studied improv comedy at the famous ImprovOlympic studio in her home city of Chicago, training...

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Tarn Adams, creator of Dwarf Fortress.

Tarn Adams, creator of Dwarf Fortress.

My guest today is the American co-creator of one of the longest-running and most popular independent games yet made. In high school he and his older brother Zach designed adventure games based on fant...

14 Helmi 20231h 6min

Dara Ó Briain, comedian.

Dara Ó Briain, comedian.

My guest today is a stand-up comedian, television presenter and Irish national treasure. He studied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at University College, Dublin, where during a debate, he cracked...

7 Helmi 202359min

Ashly Burch, actor (Mythic Quest, The Last of Us, Horizon).

Ashly Burch, actor (Mythic Quest, The Last of Us, Horizon).

[Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of addiction to prescription pain medication and fatal overdose.]My guest today is an American writer and performer who stars in Apple TV’s Mythic Qu...

31 Tammi 20231h 6min

Josh Wardle, creator of Wordle.

Josh Wardle, creator of Wordle.

My guest today is a software engineer who, in 2021, released a word game that soon became a global obsession. He grew up in a Welsh farming village, attended the Royal Holloway University, then moved ...

24 Tammi 202359min

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Welcome to My Perfect Console with author, New Yorker journalist and The Observer's video game critic, Simon Parkin.Each week a guest picks the five video games they would like to immortalise on their...

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