Outside The Box April 2025
There's a long weekend ahead and if you want to spend it watching telly, then you do you. Have some help choosing in the form of our monthly chat about TV, in which we're talking about The White Lotus...
18 Apr 202531min
The Bush Telegraph: Mon dieu! Did we say we liked dystopias?
Things are looking very worrying over in America, so of course we're talking about that. But we manage to get in a lot of other stuff too, including workers' rights, good news about bad games, rich wo...
17 Apr 202532min
Rated or Dated: American Psycho (2000)
Comedy? Horror? Satire? A full-length Huey Lewis and the News music video? There’s a lot going on in Mary Harron’s big screen adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial 1991 bestseller. Will Chri...
16 Apr 202533min
Alice Vincent is listening
Alice Vincent was a music journalist for many years, which had already started to shift how she listened, but then pregnancy and a deep trauma when her baby was very small led to her relationship with...
15 Apr 202523min
Elsa James wants you to remember
Elsa James’s new exhibition, It Should Not Be Forgotten, explores themes of chattel enslavement and its impact on contemporary Black British life. Confronting Britain’s national amnesia around its rol...
14 Apr 202529min
Honeysuckle Weeks's not-so-Little Women
Actor Honeysuckle Weeks has been onstage and screen for more than 30 years and can currently be found touring as Marmee in a new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott classic, Little Women. Jen chats to Hon...
11 Apr 202523min
The Bush Telegram: Just because we can, doesn’t mean we did
There’s a whole lot of manosphere in this week’s Bush Telegraph, helmed by Hannah and Mick, but maybe, just maybe, there’s a side of justice to boot. Thank Christ? Turns out a lot more Gen Z-ers have ...
10 Apr 202520min
Rated or Dated: Cry-Baby (1990)
John Waters’ follow-up to smash hit Hairspray saw the so-called “Pope of Trash” enjoy the first-ever bidding war for his work. But does 1990’s cult classic Cry-Baby live up to the hype? Is it the lol-...
9 Apr 202522min
