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25/04/2025

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25/04/2025

NEW EPISODE:
Gangster No. 1 (2000) with Gareth Simms, co-host of 10TB Hard Drive podcast.
Available to watch on Netflix in the UK.

28/03/2025

VICTIM (1961), starring Dirk Bogarde, is not only a pioneering social problem film from a time when it was a illegal to be gay, it's also a tight blackmail thriller, and it works as both. You can watch it now on ITVX.
John Airlie, lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, joined me to discuss the film on this week's Made in England. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.

Dirk Bogarde stars Melville Farr, a barrister targeted by blackmailers, in noir thriller Victim (1961) . Made at a time when it was illegal to be gay, Victim challenged the British film censors with an empathetic depiction of London’s gay community and is the first to use the word ‘homosexual’...

13/03/2025

A Canterbury Tale (1944) with Dan Kois

In wartime England, three modern day pilgrims - a melancholy ‘land girl’, a plainspoken American GI, and a resourceful British sergeant - are waylaid in the English countryside where they have to solve a bizarre local mystery, before going on to Canterbury to get the blessings they seek, in Mich...

18/12/2024

As we enter the bootlegs and rarities era of South London Hardcore, here is our appearance on Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available 2014 Bumper Christmas Annual live on Resonance FM.

First, a special new intro recorded by Jack McInroy and Daniel Ruiz Tizon in November 2024, looking back at a special night in South London podcasting.

Then, the SLHC guest segments from DRTIABCA, recorded and broadcast live from Resonance FM studios on Borough High St, 22nd December 2014. We reminisce about South London Christmas memories, good and bad, and round up highlights from the festive season.

https://www.holdfastnetwork.com/slhc/slhc-on-daniel-ruiz-tizons-bumper-christmas-annual-live-2014

18/12/2024

NEW EPISODE:
Jonathan Lethem and I went deep on EYES WIDE SHUT (1999), Stanley Kubrick's final film. It confounded many on release, but has proven to be worthy of as much examination and acclaim as any of Kubrick's masterpieces.
Kubrick cast real life married couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as Bill and Alice Halford, and recreated Manhattan on Pinewood Studios backlot in what would be become the longest shoot in film history.
It was great to have a noted chronicler of New York like Jonathan on the show to discuss the film. The Fortress of Solitude is among my very favourite books. It's not too late to put it on your Christmas list. Or Motherless Brooklyn or Gun With Occasional Music or his new one, Cellophane Bricks.
Made in England is available everywhere. Click for links.

When his wife admits to having fantasies about another man, Dr Bill Harford becomes obsessively jealous and finds himself on a psychosexual odyssey through an erotic underworld in Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999) . Kubrick cast married couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and rec...

30/10/2024

I had a great time talking to my old Forward The Hamlet co-host Hugo George Greenhalgh about MIKE BASSETT: ENGLAND MANAGER (2001). Episode includes some love for Streatham Rovers FC and reminiscences of Dean Holness scoring directly from a corner in the 1999 London Challenge Cup final.
Find the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else.

Ricky Tomlinson plays the first football manager from the lower leagues to get the England job in Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001).  Lapsed football journalist Hugo Greenhalgh joins to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Hugo Greenhalgh Theme music: Harlow Family Group&a

13/10/2024

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18/09/2024

Made in England A podcast delving into the history of English cinema, one film at a time. Hosted by Jack McInroy.

09/09/2024

Back on the mics with Stephen Graham, talking about YESTERDAY (2019), in which Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle imagine a world where the Beatles don't exist except in Himesh Patel's mind. The film is Netflix and Amazon Prime, although I will warn you, it is not good.

20/05/2024

Jack McInroy and Darren Richman sit down to discuss It Always Rains on Sunday, an East End noir. It's a corker. Tune in wherever you get podcasts.

It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) is a rare example of a British noir film and a pioneering social drama where working class people take centre stage. Googie Withers plays Rose Sandigate, a frustrated housewife whose world is turned upside down when her former lover escapes from prison and seeks her