Panic in Year Zero: Nuclear Apocalypse & the Nuclear Family
As always there are spoilers ahead! You can follow the podcast on social media on Threads, Instagram and Bluesky. If you would like to be a patron of the podcast you can join Patreon and for £3 o...
12 Okt 202555min
Don't Panic: The Hitchhiker's Guide Phenomenon
As always there are spoilers ahead. You can buy the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book in most bookshops and you can listen to the radio play on YouTube and also on the Internet Archive. You can ...
28 Sep 202557min
La Jetée: French New Wave's 1962 Sci-Fi Classic
As always there are spoilers ahead! A quick note that I shall be at the London Film Festival on October the 16th giving a whistlestop tour of sci-fi cinema. It is a free event but you have to reserv...
14 Sep 202559min
The Day the Earth Caught Fire: Britain's 1961 Apocalypse
As always there are spoilers ahead! If you'd like to join in on more conversations and keep up to date on what I'm working on you can follow me on social media: Threads, Instagram and Bluesky. Af...
31 Aug 202555min
Village of the Damned: Creepy Kids & the Cosy Catastrophe
As always there are spoilers ahead! You can follow the podcast on Threads, Instagram and Bluesky. If you want to support the podcast you can get ad free versions at Patreon. In 1956 the film The Bad...
17 Aug 202555min
The Silent Star: 1960 East German Sci-Fi & the Space Race
As always there are spoilers ahead! In 1951 Poland, during its Stalinist era, acclaimed science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem released his first book: The Astronauts. (He had already written the novel ...
3 Aug 202555min
The Time Machine: HG Wells' Legacy in 1960s Sci-Fi
As always there are spoilers ahead! You can follow the podcast on Threads, Instagram and Bluesky. HG Wells shadow is a long one and his seminal work on time travel was published in 1895. But well ove...
19 Jul 202553min
The Wasp Woman: Roger Corman's Corporate Queen
As always there are spoilers ahead! Scroll down to read a brief synopsis of the film. The idea is to watch the film in advance before tuning in but apparently many of you listen without prep which i...
6 Jul 202550min
