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Hope For Proles delivers a range of cultural content from comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness.

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    • May 7, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 58m AVG DURATION
    • 27 EPISODES


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    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Ciara Jack

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2020 57:36


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.Si and Ken are joined this episode by stand-up comedian Ciara Jack.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles productionMusic comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Nick Cranston

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2020 71:42


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.Si and Ken are joined this episode by stand-up comedian Nick Cranston for an absolutely brilliant episode.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles productionMusic comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Anja Atkinson

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2020 60:04


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.Si and Ken are joined this episode by stand-up comedian Anja Atkinson for an episode that's a bit of a mad one.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles productionMusic comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Rosie Stronach

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2020 58:08


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.Si and Ken are joined this episode by Rosie Stronach from Hey Art, What's Good? podcast. We were joined last week by fellow Hey Art, What's Good host Alice Smith, so this rounds out two excellent chats.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles productionMusic comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Alice Smith

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2020 58:55


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.Si and Ken are joined this episode by Alice Smith from Hey Art, What's Good? podcast. We've also got Rosie Stronach from the very same podcast to come next week!The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles productionMusic comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Elaine Robertson

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2020 57:02


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.Si and Ken are joined this episode by comedian Elaine Robertson.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles productionMusic comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Jack Johnson

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2020 60:07


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.Si and Ken are joined this episode by comedian, rapper, top man and all round pal of the show Jack Johnson.You know what the world needs right now? White men talking about Star Wars. S'alright, Jack's not seen it, so that's interesting at least.Enjoy.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Kelly Rickard

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2020 64:27


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.Si and Ken are joined this episode by all round good egg, Kelly Rickard. In this episode we talk about Star Wars and a little bit about Elvis! Enjoy.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Jordon Best

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2020 67:02


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.Si and Ken are joined this episode by stand-up comedian, Australian person and owner of some excellent tattoos Jordon Best. Really funny, daft episode with excellent chats about a host of film and TV. There's also a story about a monkey from Si, that is utterly ridiculous and will ruin your day.Enjoy.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - 1980s MOVIES SPECIAL

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2020 64:01


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode it's just Si & Ken, chatting all about the top ten '80s films. It's the decade both were born, but the '80s also gave birth to some amazing movies. And here, they discuss most of them.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Callum Casey

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2020 62:56


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.Si and Ken are joined this episode by musician, DJ and young person Callum Casey. Callum's band static blue do the music for this very podcast, and he's also never seen Rocky.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - VALENTINE'S SPECIAL

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2020 48:56


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode it's just Si & Ken, chatting all about the top ten romantic films to get you in the mood for Valentine's Day.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Andrew Musgrove

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2020 57:21


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.Si and Ken are joined this episode by football journalist Andrew Musgrove. He serves as host of the excellent Newcastle United podcast Everything is Black & White.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Megan Brown

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2020 49:42


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.Si and Ken are joined this episode by dancer and utterly lovely person Megan Brown . Megan is one half of What's That Dance (with Jenny Chrisp who guested in last week's episode) and it's such an interesting chat. Who has never seen Forrest Gump though?The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Jenny Chrisp

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2020 49:27


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.Si and Ken are joined this episode by dancer, creative talent and wonderful woman Jenny Chrisp. Jenny 'Chrispy' Chrisp is one half of What's That Dance (with Megan Brown who is the guest for the next episode) and properly good conversation. This all makes for one heck of an episode, and a 'Jenny Dubs' special needs to happen. The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Catherine Young

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2020 63:56


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode they're joined by stand-up comedian Catherine Young. Catherine is an utterly phenomenal new comedian, utter gem of a human, has some amazing life experience and also did a Christmas Black-Eye-Friday gig with Si and Ken, that was actually really nice.This episode gets very weird, but was a joy to record and is very funny.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Julie Grady Thomas

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2020 63:27


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode they're joined by stand-up comedian Julie Grady Thomas. Julie while now living in London is from America originally and an adopted Geordie. She's also very, very funny.This is also the episode where the film choice is talked about the least in the podcast itself. Though the chaos that follows is wonderful. Enjoy!The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Joby Mageean- CHRISTMAS SPECIAL #3

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2019 41:35


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode is the third of our Christmas specials and Si & Ken are joined by Mr Christmas, Joby Mageean. Joby is a wonderful stand-up comic, proper good egg, and has a Christmas-themed podcast you can listen to here.You can hear Lauren Pattison's Christmas Special episode here, and Si & Ken's one-off about the top 10 Christmas films here.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - CHRISTMAS SPECIAL #2

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2019 61:43


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode it's just Si & Ken, chatting all about the top ten Christmas films according to IMDB. This is the second of three Christmas Specials too you can hear Lauren Pattison's episode here, and Joby 'Mr Christmas' Mageean arrives on 24th December.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Lauren Pattison - CHRISTMAS SPECIAL #1

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2019 67:31


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode they're joined by stand-up comedian Lauren Pattison for a CHRISTMAS SPECIAL. This is the first of three Christmas Specials too with Si and Ken chatting about the top 10 Christmas films on 23rd December, and Joby 'Mr Christmas' Mageean on 24th December.This will get you in the festive mood, as Lauren is such a great guest, with the Geordie comic now living in London it was great to have her back on home turf, just as she will be when she does a run of shows at Alphabetti Theatre in Newcastle in March 2020.Lauren is a supremely talented comic and proper good egg, but has never seen Die Hard. Her version of Die Hard is truly something special though.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Omar Abid

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2019 46:19


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode they're joined by stand-up comedian and friend of the show Omar Abid. Omar writes and performs in sketches for BBC Newcastle's Grin Up North alongside Si & Ken, as well as being a brilliantly intelligent, funny and all round top gent.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Steve Drayton

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2019 53:20


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode they're joined by Radio producer Steve Drayton. Steve produces sketch show Grin Up North for BBC Newcastle for which Si and Ken write and perform sketches along with a host of other shows too. Also the man behind Mr Drayton's Record Player, Steve has a rich history of being a key part of North East culture. He's also an utter gem of a bloke with a wealth of knowledge. He picked Schindler's List. The episode isn't nearly as harrowing as you'd imagine it could have been and is a proper interesting listen with a really fascinating guest.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Lee Kyle

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2019 70:33


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode they're joined by comedian Lee Kyle for the most chaotic but brilliantly fun episode yet. Lee's version of The Matrix needs to be heard to be believed. Then heard again.Lee is also an excellent podcaster and co-host of Which Is The Best? with Sammy Dobson. Both of whom are also part of The Stand Panto (along with former guest of this very podcast Hal Branson) running from 7th to 30th December at The Stand Newcastle. You can find more info and tickets here.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Sarah Seymour

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2019 45:47


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode they're joined by actress, theatremaker and super talented Sarah Seymour (also one half of Timeworks Theatre with partner John Seymour who was an excellent guest in episode 2). Sarah discusses not having seen The Godfather (which Si has also NOT seen, blummin' heck) and there is A LOT of Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves chat. Arguably too much chat, but we'll take up that argument with anyone!The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest Neil Harris

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2019 59:28


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode they're joined by writer stand-up comedian Neil Harris. This episode has a tad more swearing than usual, blame Neil, he's a very naughty boy. The episode also takes many twists and turns from Neil's original choice of film, befitting really, since his choice was Pulp Fiction.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You’ve Never Seen - With Guest John Seymour

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2019 50:39


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode they're joined by writer John Seymour, who also is one half of theatre company Timeworks Theatre (with the other half of the company Sarah Seymour guesting in two weeks). John discusses his choice The Lion King and is rightly met with utter incredulity that anyone could have not seen this film.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen - With Guest Hal Branson

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2019 59:41


    The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode they're joined by comedian and properly lovely man Hal Branson who discussed his choice, 2001: A Space Odyssey.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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