The Ploy: Angela Bishop
For 20 Years Angela Bishop has been Network Ten’s National Entertainment Reporter and one of Australia’s most recognisable faces.
Reporting on key Entertainment News stories for ‘Ten News’, ‘HINCH’, ‘Alan Jones Live’ and ‘E! News’ as well as contributing to ‘The Panel’ and ‘Good Morning Australia’ she has covered some of the major Entertainment News stories of the last 2 decades.
She can be seen regularly on Ten News at Five and she presents an extended Entertainment Wrap Thursday Mornings on Ten Morning News at 11am. Angela can also be found on Twitter.
Angela spoke to Mike from Ten’s News Centre in Sydney about her career, some of her favourite interviews including one of the final with Audrey Hepburn and why she has stuck around at Ten for 20 Years.
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The Ploy: Broadcast Australia
Paul Tevis presents this weeks episode in which Mike speaks to Martin Farrimond the General Manager for New Platforms and Salvatore Mattera Business Manager for Commercial Broadcast from Broadcast Australia, an organisation overseeing the Digital 44 Digital Television trial in Sydney and Digital Radio in Australia.
Mike asked about the trials and digital radio and posed some questions sent in from listeners.
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The Ploy 88: Fun with Zombies
Mike Beckham and Paul Tevis bring you Episode 88. On the rundown this week; Paul is writing a Zombie story and it stars Megan Fox!, Mike visited an Optometrist, Nancy Pelosi is in trouble, What is Torture? Is it Madcow Muller’s radio show?, Chk Chk Boom Chick is a fake! and Conan takes over The Tonight Show in June!
All that and more, this week on the only podcast that guarantees instant weight loss!
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The Ploy 87: Three’s a Crowd
Ben May, Mike Beckham and an intoxicated Paul Tevis are all here this week to inform and entertain. We covered the 2009 Australian Federal Budget (with a long argument), West Australians are scared of the sun, we mention the sad passing of legend Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell and a discussion about the NRL Sex Scandal.
All that and so much more, all made lovingly just for you.
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The Ploy 86: Traveling Sideshow

Was 'Today' show host drunk?
It’s a bumper show this week as Ben is back from seclusion, following his battle with the Swine Flu.
This week Ben & Mike cover Ben’s trips to New Zealand and the Gold Coast, the evil Swine Flu, Karl from Today Drunk?, Online DVD Rentals (Netflix, Bigpond Movies etc…), Printers! Printers! Printers! and we all get ready for Ben’s trip to Sydney for CeBIT 2009!
Make sure to listen again next week for Ben Live at CeBIT!
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The Ploy: Renai LeMay
Paul Tevis from Women Need Us anchors this episode featuring ZDNet Australia News Editor Renai LeMay who joined Mike to talk about the upcoming National Broadband Network plans – what effect will it have on your internet connection and what prices can we expect?
Plus his views on the Clean Feed proposal, the upcoming Windows release ‘Windows 7′ and we hear about the hottest tech news out of ZDNet Australia.
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