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May 27, 2020

Broadcaster, author and journalist Matthew Sweet and I dip a toe into 1970's exploitation cinema of the saucy kind. Matthew gives us a fascinating and entertaining insight to what might have been going on not just in the country but inside my fathers head.


May 18, 2020

Film producer and critic Catherine Bray joins me for a chat that covers event cinema, crappy trailers, the ABC Bournemouth and June 2013 when we were showing the dazzling Liberace film, Behind The Candelabra. There was laughing.


May 8, 2020

Broadcasting legend Peter Curran joins me for a meander through The Missionary and Tootsie from 1983. We also tip our hat to Withnail and I and Peter's connections with the early days of cinema in Belfast.


May 1, 2020

Composer, writer and presenter Neil Brand & I talk Close Encounters and Airplane as well as memories of Burgess Hill and the Odeon Brighton.


Apr 24, 2020

In an instant overhaul of the podcast I realise me droning on is not the most exciting, so in an effort to make things more interesting and me look good, I have drafted in some brilliant guests. This week the BBC's Francine Stock joins me to talk about June 1970, Ken Russell, pretending to be 18, and why cinema is still...