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• The Day The Earth Stood Still

  October 6, 2026 · 41 min

  Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980. This time: Robert Wise sets Michael Rennie loose with a giant robot, and teaches the world to say Klaatu Barada Nikto. Thanks to…

• The Thing

  September 29, 2026 · 40 min

  Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980. This time: The Thing. Howard Hawks sends his usual capable men to deal with an intelligent carrot from outer space. It's for a…

• Things To Come

  September 22, 2026 · 41 min

  Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980. This time: Things To Come, in which H G Wells and Alexander Korda predict the coming of The Helicopter Men. Thanks to the support…

• Metropolis

  September 15, 2026 · 45 min

  Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980. We start with Metropolis, Fritz Lang's tale of robots, big clocks, and eyeliner. Thanks to the support of our listeners on Patreon…

• Count Duckula - with Jay Foreman

  December 4, 2025 · 1 hr 12 min

  Writer, comedian and YouTube star Jay Foreman (Map Men) returns to talk about another vivid and unique cartoon world: Cosgrove Hall’s wild and crazy Dangermouse offshoot Count Duckula, and celebrates the subversive joys of children’s…

• Country Living Magazine - with Madeleine Brettingham

  August 13, 2025 · 50 min

  Writer and comedian Madeleine Brettingham (Harry Hill's TV Burp, Have I Got News For You) talks about the cyclical comforts of wicker-basket obsessed hedgehogs-and-pumpkins glossy Country Living Magazine, and becomes the first Comfort…

• Keeping Up Appearances - with Athena Kugblenu

  July 30, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min

  Writer and comedian Athena Kugblenu (Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Horrible Histories) talks about the family-all-together-on-the-sofa comforts of 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, the comedy of class, the thorny issue of fitting in…

• Wallace and Gromit - with Hattie Williams

  July 7, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min

  Author Hattie Williams (Bitter Sweet) talks about Nick Park’s lovable Oscar-smashing plasticene cheesepunk technologists, the joy of vegetable puns, silent villains and doomed romances, and the comforts of slow, careful, human…