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#47
August 25 · 49 min
Pat and Margaret (1994) with Matthew Dooley
Julie Walters and Victoria Wood are long lost sisters in the BBC Screen One original comedy Pat and Margaret (1994). Graphic novelist Matthew Dooley, award-winning author of Flake and Aristotle’s Cuttlefish, joins to discuss the film. https://matthewdooley.bigcartel.com/ https://splitcomic.bigcar
#46
July 28 · 54 min
Spider (2002) with Violet Lucca
Ralph Fiennes plays Dennis Cleg, a schizophrenic who moves into a halfway house where he remembers and relives the traumas of his 1950s childhood, in David Cronenberg’s Spider (2002). Violet Lucca, author of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials, joins to discuss the film. Find Violet on Substack, Twi
#45
July 13 · 1 hr 15 min
Breaking Glass (1980) with Wesley Doyle
Breaking Glass (1980) follows new wave singer Kate (Hazel O’Connor) as she rises from the gritty punk scene to pop stardom. Flanked by aspiring manager Danny (Phil Daniels), she tries to hold on to her ideals (and her sanity) as she navigates the perils of the music industry. Music journalist Wesl
#44
May 26 · 1 hr 19 min
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963) with Darren Richman
Anthony Newley stars as a nightclub compere who has just a few hours to raise £300 to pay a gambling debt or face the violent consequences in The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963). Writer and journalist Darren Richman joins to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Darren Richman Theme music
#43
April 30 · 1 hr 56 min
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) with Tom Allen
Decades after the outbreak of the rage virus, the UK is quarantined from the rest of Europe and overrun with zombie-like Infected (and worse) in... 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026). Writer Alex Garland and director Danny Boyle started the series in 2002 with 28 Days Later and returned in 202
#42
April 7 · 1 hr 13 min
Sense and Sensibility (1995) with Lizzy Stewart
The Dashwood sisters find their prospects of marriage suddenly diminished by their family loss of fortune, in Emma Thompson’s adaptation of Sense and Sensibility (1995). Thompson won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and is also part of the stellar cast, which includes Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman
#41
March 25 · 48 min
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) with Drew Taylor and Charles Hood
Tom Cruise is forced to live, die, repeat in the sci-fi action thriller Edge of Tomorrow (2014). Adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s light novel All You Need Is Kill, the film was directed by Doug Liman from a script by Jez and John Henry Butterworth and regular Cruise collaborator Christopher McQuarr
#40
March 4 · 45 min
Night and the City (1950) with Foster Hirsch
Richard Widmark stars as Harry Fabian, a conman trying to rustle up a few quid to break into wrestling promotion, in Night and the City (1950). Based on Gerald Kersh’s novel of the London underworld, the film was made in England with American money, produced by Twentieth Century Fox and directed by
#39
February 12 · 29 min
Love is the Devil (1998) with Christopher Frayling
Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) stars Derek Jacobi in the title role and Daniel Craig as George Dyer, Bacon’s lover and muse. Directed by John Maybury. Writer, historian and broadcaster Sir Christopher Frayling joins to discuss the film. Christopher’s latest book, Th
#38
February 5 · 34 min
Rembrandt (1936) with Christopher Frayling
Charles Laughton stars as Rembrandt (1936), in Alexander Korda’s biopic of the Dutch old master. Writer, historian and broadcaster Sir Christopher Frayling joins to discuss the film. Christopher’s latest book, The Hollywood History of Art, which features this film, is available now from reelartpre
#37
Nov 19, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min
Wicked: Part One (2024) with Tamiko Dooley
The Wicked Witch of the West gets to tell her side of the story in the Wizard of Oz prequel, Wicked (2024). Adapted from the hit stage musical, Wicked follows Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) on their journey from Shiz University to the Emerald City. Tamiko Dooley, composer lyric
#36
Nov 10, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min
Naked (1993) with Alonso Ruizpalacios
Naked (1993) stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a charming and articulate but vicious misfit, drifting around London on a nocturnal odyssey, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed characters. Mike Leigh’s script is scintillating and it’s arguably his best directorial work too. The fil
#35
Oct 4, 2025 · 59 min
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987) with Adam Lowes
A married man starts an ‘affair’ with two schoolgirls in bawdy Thatcher-era comedy, Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987). Written by Andrea Dunbar based on her own play, directed by Alan Clarke, and starring Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes and George Costigan. Film writer Adam Lowes joins to discuss the
#34
Aug 25, 2025 · 56 min
Threads (1984) with Rebecca Strickson
At 9.30pm on 23rd September 1984, with the Cold War still ongoing, the BBC broadcast nuclear fallout drama Threads. Written by Barry Hines and directed and produced by Mick Jackson, the film went well beyond looking at the effect of a nuclear bomb on buildings and people, it examined, in unrelenting
#33
Aug 11, 2025 · 54 min
Kill List (2011) with Heather Parry
Hitmen Jay (Neil Maskell) and Gal (Michael Smiley) take on a new assignment, but what starts as an easy task soon unravels, revealing darker things beneath, in Ben Wheatley’s Kill List (2011). Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds A Girl and Carrion Crow, joins to discuss the film. Heather write
#32
Aug 5, 2025 · 1 hr 26 min
24 Hour Party People (2002) with Paul Wilson
Steve Coogan stars as Tony Wilson in Michael Winterbottom’s comedy music biopic about the rise and fall of Factory Records, 24 Hour Party People (2002). Writer and editor Paul Wilson (no relation) joins to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Paul Wilson Theme music: Harlow Family Group
#31
Jul 25, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min
The Caretaker (1963) with Barney Farmer
Two brothers, Aston (Robert Shaw) and Mick (Alan Bates), take in a tramp (Donald Pleasence) and offer him the role of caretaker in their run down flat, in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker (1963). Barney Farmer, novelist and writer Viz comic strip Drunken Bakers, joins to discuss the film. Barney’s bo
#30
Jul 16, 2025 · 36 min
Brian and Charles (2022) with Babak Ganjei
Brian, a lonely inventor in rural Wales, builds himself a robot out of an old washing machine, but what happens when his companion wants to move on? Brian and Charles (2022) is written by and starring David Earl and Charles Hayward, and directed by Jim Archer. Artist Babak Ganjei joins to discuss
#29
Jul 5, 2025 · 16 min
Alex Cox, Moviedrome at the BFI
Moviedrome premiered on BBC 2 in May 1988, on a mission to show cult films to counter ‘the abysmal drek that passes for entertainment in contemporary cinema’. The show was hosted by Alex Cox, director of Repo Man and Sid & Nancy, who offered balanced and thoughtful intros to the films. A new seaso
#28
Jun 11, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min
Gosford Park (2001) with Nicolás Obregón
November 1932: A group of wealthy guests and their servants gather in an English country house for dinner, music, and, inevitably, murder, in Robert Altman’s upstairs-downstairs comedy mystery, Gosford Park (2001). The film was a hit with critics and audiences, becoming Altman’s biggest hit since M*

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