One Life Left
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| Other names | OLL |
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| Genre | Video gaming |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Home station | Resonance FM |
| Hosted by |
Ste Curran Simon Byron Ann Scantlebury |
| Original release | 2006 – present |
| No. of series | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 194 (as of 28 January 2013) |
| Website | http://www.onelifeleft.com/ |
| Podcast | http://onelifeleft.libsyn.com/rss |
One Life Left is Europe's first and only dedicated videogames FM radio show. It is presented by Ste Curran, Simon Byron and Ann Scantlebury. 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, a London community radio station at 19:00 every Monday, and is available as a podcast.
One Life Left is presented in a magazine style, with guests and features. Guests have included industry figures such as Jon Hare, Charles Cecil, Paul Rose and comedian and presenter Joe Cornish. 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). The show briefly featured a segment by Ariel Angelotti during her tenure at Q Games, which highlighted Japanese development culture and popular Japanese phrases.
Since 2009, the show has featured contributions from "Dr. Avatar" who presents an Accident & Emergency segment highlighting the misfortune of classic video game characters. Other additions to the complement of features have been Science Officer's Log which parodies the gaming trope of recorded audio logs, and Lonely Hearts by Cara Ellison which involves the generation of dating website profiles for famous game characters.
One Life Left has also recorded from the Develop Conference and Expo. In 2010, they hosted One Laugh Left as part of Nottingham Gamecity 5. This was billed as a night of stand up comedy about video gaming and included turns from each of the three presenters.
The video games website Kotaku 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's Aleks Krotoski and Keith Stuart have both commented on the quality of the show's podcasts.
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