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Our journey through this year's Academy Awards Best Picture nominees continues with Josh Safdie's first solo project as director, featuring Timothée Chalamet as Marty Supreme Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Iain Martin
We turn our microphones to the subject of deadly plants in the 1960s, with particular attention to episodes of The Outer Limits, Out of the Unknown, The Avengers and Lost in Space Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Dylan Rees and Steve Hatcher
What were the problems in the most recent era of Doctor Who - and what solutions might have avoided them? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Our Hammer watch through arrives at a choice of Frankenstein sequels, The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees
Our Oscar conversation moves onto one of the year's less likely nominees, the racing car movie F1 Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Iain Martin
We talk through Doctor Who's modern era spin-off shows, pitting them against each other in an effort to decide which is the more justified Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Mackenzie Crook returns with a new series about a man growing homunculi in his garden shed Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Simon Brett
With the second season of Prime's hugely successful series Fallout having recently come to a conclusion, we look back at the whole thing with an eye on which bits worked and which might have worked better Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake
It's getting on for a decade since Mark Gatiss wrote his last Doctor Who, but how does it stack up against his earlier episodes? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
Joachim Trier's film Affeksjonsverdi - or Sentimental Value - about an aging film director's two daughters and the different paths they take, is our next Best Picture nominee ahead of this year's Oscars Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
We count down the greatest "love" songs of all, so you don't have to Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Eric Drass
Which were the bits of the Chris Chibnall era where fandom thought it overstepped the mark - and did it really? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Our watch through of this year's Best Picture nominees arrives at Train Dreams, the story of the unacknowledged folk who built what would become modern America Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
It's fifty years since Robert De Niro first rolled Martin Scorsese's cab onto the mean streets of New York, so we thought that was the perfect time to go back and take another look Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Luke Molloy
The randomiser chooses what is widely considered to be the runt of one of Doctor Who's greatest ever seasons - but is either of those things really true? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ben Verth
Our journey through this year's Academy Award Best Picture nominees continues with a look at Ryan Coogler's vampire movie Sinners Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
After our conversation about the Dracula films at Hammer, we decided to carry on and watch two further instalments: Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) and Dracula A.D. 1972 Presented by Steve Hatcher, with Matt Barber, Dylan Rees and J.R. Southall
The second half of our conversation in which we choose the individual stories we think might have made for decent Peter Cushing-style movies, this time going into the 1980s Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
We start a watch through of this year's Best Picture nominees with Yorgos Lanthimos' latest Bugonia, following a chat about its competition in various categories Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
We take a look through Malcolm Hulke's lesser known back catalogue in order to help us understand the writer's work on Doctor Who. Including an Armchair Theatre, a Danger Man and a Gideon's Way plus two b-movies (all available to watch on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7MPHXjCYVW6_yBTNvzdHYj0IX4dm-gM) Presented by Dylan Rees, with Jon Arnold and J.R. Southall
We pay our respects (in our own irreverent fashion) to two significant guest actors from the original run of Doctor Who, by watching the stories in which they appeared: The Robots of Death and Battlefield Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Ben Verth
After our recent trip through the various Jurassic Parks, we went on to discover what the subsequent Jurassic Worlds had to offer Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Our Hammer watch through concentrates on the continuation of the Count this time, with our thoughts on Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), Scars of Dracula (1970), The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) and The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees
In response to a question from the General Witchfinders on the last Radio Free Skaro advent calendar, we were prompted to wonder what might have happened if the Cushing movies had carried on on an annual basis throughout the original run of Doctor Who, and therefore to pick one story from each season that they might have adapted for the silver screen Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
We talk about our first experiences of the three Jurassic Park movies and discuss how well they stand up today Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber Our sister podcast, republishing our back catalogue: https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-archives.html
Oliver Stone's first political thriller is the story of North American interference leading to regime change in Latin America, so what on earth possessed us to think of reviewing it right now is a mystery Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
Now that the plastic has been cleared away, some more thoughts on the qualities of the latest Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea Presented by J.R. Southall, with Steve Hatcher and Ben Verth
We take a look at Edgar Wright's recent adaptation of Stephen King's Richard Bachman novel The Running Man, after going back to the first film adaptation by Paul Michael Glaser back in 1987 Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
We induct Blakes 7 into the Who Review Extra randomiser by taking a look at the sixth episode of the third series, in which Paul Darrow and Colin Baker come face to face for the first time, and Vila cops off with a Carry On girl. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Our listener James Wheildon asked if we could get down to the brass tacks of why we came to like Doctor Who in the first place. So we gave it a go! Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett, Iain Martin and eventually, Ryan Blake
Two of the four biggest-selling singles of the 1980s, a massive Christmas single, that range of t-shirts and an album that was more a statement of art than something to be listened to; we end the year with our memories of the phenomenon that was Frankie Goes to Hollywood Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Eric Drass (Eric's Shardcore website)
Another year, another Christmas Eve - and another Mark Gatiss A Ghost Story for Christmas. Was this latest one any good? We take a look at The Room in the Tower. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
It's thirty years since Brad Pitt appeared in two movies that have influenced cinema in immeasurable ways in the three decades since, but how well have Seven and 12 Monkeys stood the test of time? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
As part of our journey through the Hammer back catalogue, we take another wander off the beaten path to look at two 1966 movies that were both made on the same sets (and include a number of shared actors too): The Plague of the Zombies and The Reptile Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees
This year for Christmas we decided to watch a pair of British holiday romances, with a surprising connection to our very own podcast! Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Luke Molloy
A hobbyist Sikh devotional singer and her three sons create the first ever Asian-infused electronic dance album in England at their kitchen table in the Punjabi-populated London suburb of Southall in 1982. The record sat in obscurity until this year when Naya Beat resurrected and reissued the magic for our consumption.
During the original run of Doctor Who, there were nine stories whose broadcast spanned Christmas Day. But which of them is the most Christmassy? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
The Disney Doctor Who deal comes to a conclusion (in the UK at least) with the final chapter of the latest spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea, but is it a fitting end to a troubled time? Presented by J.R. Southall and Ryan Blake, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
With an odd number of participants there's something a little different about the make-up of the teams in this year's Christmas quiz - but the quality of the questions hasn't changed Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher, and Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
We turn our attention to Hammer's iconic first attempts at their three staple horror characters, in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958) and The Mummy (1959) Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees
Craig, Daniel is back as Benoit Blanc in the latest Knives Out Mystery from Rian Johnson Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
In this episode, Yvette Bohanan and Ashley Lannquist welcome Scott Southall, Head of BaaS, and Will Artingstall, Head of Digital Assets Payments and e-Commerce at Citi, to dig into what recent stablecoin regulatory changes mean for the future of banking, how U.S. institutions are mobilizing behind digital dollars, why clients are asking about new forms of money, and what's next as stablecoins potentially go mainstream in the American financial system.
We check in on episodes 3 and 4 of the latest Doctor Who spin-off, to see how it's progressing Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber Links to our various new homes here: https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/links.html
After our episode about Nigel Kneale's famous TV scientist and his portrayal at the movies, we decided to go the full Hammer with a run-through of the highlights of the film series - starting with this duet of two Quatermass-adjacent early horrors Presented by Matt Barber, with Steve Hatcher and J.R. Southall
In which we watch Matt Smith's final episode and wonder if it's a fitting way for the eleventh Doctor to go, and then choose the first Blakes 7 episode we're going to talk about after having added the series to the randomiser Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Giving the creator of Coupling and Joking Apart the Doctor Who showrunner job was bound to bring problems - unless of course that's the man the BBC wanted in charge of the programme. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Our mixed reaction to the first two episodes of the latest Doctor Who spin-off, The War Between the Land and the Sea Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher With highly inappropriate language right from the very start
It's exactly half a century since Stanley Kubrick followed A Clockwork Orange with his stately, painterly picture Barry Lyndon. But will we be impressed by its languid pace and artistic aspirations? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Luke Molloy
The last time Russell T Davies went five-part serial with a Doctor Who spin-off was Torchwood: Children of Earth, and at the time it was a great success. We went back and took another look. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ZhD0VWN9M 10 Nov 2025 Joti Brar, chair of the Communist party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), introduces our meeting to celebrate the 108th anniversary of the great socialist October Revolution. This fantastic celebration was hosted by our party and held in Saklatvala Hall, in Southall, on Saturday, the 8th of November 2025. After a brief introduction the audience stand and sing the Soviet anthem together with Paul Robson in commemoration and tribute both to the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks' great victory in the Russian Civil War, and this year the 80th anniversary of the heroic sacrifices made both by the people of the Soviet Union and the peoples Republic of China who gave respectively 27 million and 40 million lives to defeat the dark armies of fascism and to whom we owe our very existence in the modern world today. Glory to the Red Army of the Soviet Union! Glory to the People's Liberation of the People's Republic of China! Workers of all countries unite! Join us! Also seen in the video: Comrade Ismara Vargas Walter, Ambassador of Cuba Comrade Tha Vone Singharaj, deputy head of mission of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos. Subscribe! Donate! Join us in building a bright future for humanity! www.thecommunists.org www.lalkar.org www.redyouth.org Telegram: t.me/thecommunists Twitter: twitter.com/cpgbml Soundcloud: @proletarianradio Rumble: rumble.com/c/theCommunists Odysee: odysee.com/@proletariantv:2 Facebook: www.facebook.com/cpgbml Online Shop: https://shop.thecommunists.org/ Education Program: Each one teach one! www.londonworker.org/education-programme/ Join the struggle www.thecommunists.org/join/ Donate: www.thecommunists.org/donate/