Review of the Year 2025
What's the best book we read this year? Or the best play we saw? We're talking about that, plus our favorite TV, events, sport, music, comedy and interviews of 2025, as we wave goodbye to a year that'...
31 Dec 202549min
Rated or Dated: The Railway Children (1970)
Adventure, nostalgia, trains, Cribbens and three elderly children posher than a lobster in a cravat: HOW JOLLY! Lionel Jeffries’ period piece based on E Nesbit’s 1906 book is a wholesome slice of clas...
24 Dec 202530min
Bears, dogs and creative thinking with Jessica Swale
Jessica Swale is a busy woman, so Hannah was surprised to discover the writer and director did have the time for a chat about some of her latest projects. They cover getting the tone right for Padding...
22 Dec 202526min
Tanya Kirk is ghosting us
Working in the 17th century gothic library at St John's College puts Tanya Kirk in an ideal position to talk about book-based ghost stories. She's just edited the latest in a series of short story col...
19 Dec 202524min
Rated or Dated: Mermaids (1990)
Richard Benjamin’s coming-of-age comedy-drama has a (sort of) dream cast, but how much will Jen, Hannah and Mick love central character Mrs Flax? Does the character even matter when she’s played by Ch...
17 Dec 202527min
Padel-ing forward with Alex Brodie
Padel might well be one of the fastest growing sports in the world, right now, but what exactly is it? And how is it different to tennis, squash, or pickleball? Jen wanted to find out more, so she go...
16 Dec 202525min
Dr Suze Kundu brings the sunshine (and science)
Let’s bring some cheer to the end of the year with Dr Suze Kundu – that’s right NASA’s Dr Suze Kundu. She and Mick* debunk some bad science, celebrate some impactful and robust research and tech, and ...
15 Dec 202526min
Liz Warner on employees with a difference
Just five per cent of people with a learning difference are in paid work, something highlighted by the recent case of Tom Boyd, who was let go by Morrisons after his family asked that he be paid for h...
12 Dec 202523min
