The Bush Telegraph: A man’s best froggy hypocrite
Mick and Jen are on Bush Telegraph duties this week and, unlike it does for Sabrina Carpenter, the idea of men doing more housework is not getting them going. In other news, can you kill someone with ...
11 Sep 202529min
Rated or Dated: Brokeback Mountain (2005)
The "gay cowboy movie" certainly opened the door for a lot of other films, but how does it fare 20 years later? Hankies at the ready as we take another look at the small story, big landscape romance ...
10 Sep 202534min
Witch? Refugee? Tragic hero? Natalie Haynes talks Medea
The story of Medea has been popular since antiquity and continues to endure today. Not least because big names want what’s undoubtedly one of the meatiest female roles in theatre. Meatiest in its most...
9 Sep 202527min
Dr Ingrid Clayton on the fourth "F" of trauma
It took clinical psychologist, trauma therapist and complex trauma survivor Dr Ingrid Clayton years to understand how she had reacted to abuse within her home as a young person. But what she later und...
8 Sep 202527min
Flicking #65: Better Man
It’s Robbie Williams, but he’s a chimp! But is there anything more to Michael Gracey’s biopic jukebox musical drama about the British pop phenomenon? Are there any facts in it? And will you look at th...
5 Sep 202532min
The Bush Telegraph: Back from the dead?
Returning from a BT hiatus, Mickey and Hannah take a rifle through some of the daftest stories of the week, including AI failures, ball pits, watered down beer, rumours of Trump's death and odd book c...
4 Sep 202524min
Rated or Dated: Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Is there anything Meryl Streep and/or Shirley MacLaine can’t do? It's a question we return to, as we settle down with Mike Nichol’s 1990 dramedy, based on Carrie Fisher’s semi-autobiographical novel o...
3 Sep 202526min
Here come the (incredibly divisive) girls
A century after their birth, the Mitford Sisters continue to fascinate and appal in equal measure. As a new play about them, The Party Girls, opens at The Marlowe in Canterbury, Hannah chats to playwr...
2 Sep 202527min
