Episodes

  • Christmas 2023 - We're back!

    Christmas 2023 - We're back!
    Dec 19 2023

    After the world's longest podcast hiatus (will verify with Norris McWhirter) Julia is back for a chat with regular guest (and, yes, he happens to be her husband), comedy writer Joel Morris.


    They reminisce about the TV of Christmases past and look forward to the new traditions they're making with their own family. But mostly it's just them bunking on about Blue Peter fire hazards, Victoria Wood, the big Christmas day film, Noel Edmonds, more Victoria Wood, dancing newsreaders and how excited they are about the Ghosts special on Christmas Day.


    If you're in a Yule-ish mood, why not scroll back to some of our Christmas specials from 2020 including THIS lovely one about The Good Life Christmas Special with Greg Haiste or THIS absolute beauty from Toby Davies looking back at the quite wonderful Children of Green Knowe.


    We hope you have a lovely Christmas free of disease and distemper and we'll see you in 2024!


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    43 mins
  • Six Feet Under

    Six Feet Under
    Mar 23 2023
    TV producer Geri O'Donohoe remembers the utterly heart-wrenching finale to Six Feet Under and the personal resonance it particularly holds for her.

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    17 mins
  • Rik Mayall: the first Comic Relief

    Rik Mayall: the first Comic Relief
    Jun 9 2022
    Comedian Mitch Benn talks to Julia about the time he saw the mighty Rik Mayall at the first ever Comic Relief live show in 1986.

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    12 mins
  • Succession: the Dundee episode

    Succession: the Dundee episode
    Dec 16 2020
    Brilliant actor and star of Home (C4) Youssef Kerkour joins Julia to recount the thrilling, often excruciating episode of Succession in which Logan Roy (Brian Cox) returns to his home town in Scotland.

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    18 mins
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    Dec 13 2020
    Writer and podcaster Chris Thorpe-Tracey joins Julia to discuss his deep love for the 90s blood-sucker butt-kicker.

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    16 mins
  • 1980s Levi's Jeans Ads

    1980s Levi's Jeans Ads
    Dec 3 2020
    Novelist Jenny Colgan remembers the pure teen lust generated by Nick Kamen stripping to his pants in a launderette.

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    14 mins
  • Ghostwatch

    Ghostwatch
    Dec 2 2020
    Christmas is a time for ghost stories, so let's tenuously link to that by listening to the brilliant Tony Way reminisce about the bone-chilling terror induced by his viewing of Ghostwatch (BBC One) as a slightly tipsy teenager.

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    22 mins
  • Doctor Who: Death of Adric

    Doctor Who: Death of Adric
    Dec 1 2020
    Julia helps comedian Mitch Benn to revisit the trauma of that day in 1982 when his innocence was swiftly taken by the death of Doctor Who companion, Adric.

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    17 mins