Cargo In The Solo Hold - The Podcast

24/04/2024

This week (the final for this season) we’re armed with garlic, wooden stakes and missing reflections as we delve into the cinematic takes on Bram Stoker’s enduring vampire count: https://buff.ly/3TfMhH3 🦇

This week we’re armed with garlic, wooden stakes and missing reflections as we delve into the cinematic takes on Bram Stoker’s enduring vampire count. 

17/04/2024

This week we finish off our second two-parter composer deep-dive of this series, dedicated to the legendary John Williams: https://buff.ly/3uSgmDo 🎶😊

This week we finish off our second two-parter composer deep-dive of this series, dedicated to the legendary John Williams. YouTube - Johnny Staccato (watch from the 01:30 mark!) 

10/04/2024

This week we’re unpacking not one, not two but three versions of the classic cute-meet-setup, you know, big monkey meets girl, big monkey abducts girl, big monkey scales a tall building with girl… that’s right, we’re chatting about the eighth wonder of the world - King Kong: https://buff.ly/3HraSCo 🦍

This week we’re unpacking not one, not two but three versions of the classic cute-meet-setup, you know, big monkey meets girl, big monkey abducts girl, big monkey scales a tall building with girl… that’s right, we’re chatting about the eighth wond...

03/04/2024

This week it’s the ‘eve of war’ so we’ll spend the next 30 or 35mins running away from aliens with Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Tom Cruise & Dakota Fanning: https://buff.ly/48tYxZb 🛸

This week it’s the ‘eve of war’ so we’ll spend the next 30 or 35mins running away from aliens with Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Tom Cruise & Dakota Fanning. 

27/03/2024

This week we’re going to keep away from dogs that aren’t actually dogs, tie our station-mates to couches and find out just what happened to the Norwegians: https://buff.ly/3tYhgxE 😱

This week we’re going to keep away from dogs that aren’t actually dogs, tie our station-mates to couches and find out just what happened to the Norwegians. Couch bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFg04VAbwe8 👀(*note there's some naughty la...

20/03/2024

This week, we kick off a two-parter that will lean into some wonderful and potentially hidden gems from composer John Williams: https://buff.ly/3uQbEG8 🎶

This week, we kick off a two-parter that will lean into some wonderful and potentially hidden gems from composer John Williams.

13/03/2024

This week, we delve into Karloff and Kenneth - Branagh that is - and discuss two film adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: https://buff.ly/3vK23kn 👈

This week, we delve into Karloff and Kenneth - Branagh that is - and discuss two film adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. 

06/03/2024

This week, we finish off our two-parter composer deep-dive, focusing on the incredibly varied works of Jerry Goldsmith: https://buff.ly/3SlSW22 🎶🙌

This week, we finish off our two-parter composer deep-dive, focusing on the incredibly varied works of Jerry Goldsmith. 

28/02/2024

Join us this week where we ride the giant worms through two absolutely epic films, which are themselves, an adaptation of an equally epic Frank Herbet novel: https://buff.ly/4b5TYGM 👀

Join us this week where we ride the giant worms through two absolutely epic films, which are themselves, an adaptation of an equally epic Frank Herbet novel. 

21/02/2024

This week we seek the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything… that’s right, we’re chatting all things Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: https://buff.ly/492XpfN 🐋

This week we seek the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything… that’s right, we’re chatting all things Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 

14/02/2024

This week, we kick off a two-parter celebrating some choice selections from chameleon composer Jerry Goldsmith: https://buff.ly/3S21D0d 🎶🙌

This week, we kick off a two-parter celebrating some choice selections from chameleon composer Jerry Goldsmith. 

07/02/2024

Welcome to the opening episode of our fourth season. This week, we’re settling in to see about some suspicious stuff that we’re pretty sure is made of people and some people we’re pretty sure are made of virus who are suspicious of science: https://buff.ly/3S84uF3 🙃

Welcome to the opening episode of our fourth season. This week, we’re settling in to see about some suspicious stuff that we’re pretty sure is made of people and some people we’re pretty sure are made of virus who are suspicious of science. 

31/01/2024

Season 4 of the podcast kicks off next week where we tackle dystopian futures, far-flung sci-fi, historical horror and some good old composer champs! 👀 🎶🥳

24/01/2024

New eps coming soon... so watch this space! We're gearing up for a series of duos, trios, remakes and some Jerry Goldsmith & John Williams deep-dives! 🙌

20/12/2023

This week’s our last for the season, and we’re finishing things off with quite the dystopian future… at least, we don’t know it’s our future until the end, and we spend the film just as surprised as Charlton Heston that there’s primates everywhere. 🙈🙉🙊

Don your designer rags and join us for the final ep of Season 3: https://buff.ly/3FLgXIZ

13/12/2023

We’re nearing the end of this first series of deep-dives but tonight we’re detouring for a bit of a space odyssey, and unpacking some of what makes this Kubrick classic, well, a classic. Listen now: https://buff.ly/463rn1c 🛰️

06/12/2023

So, this week we’re climbing over electric fences, crawling around raptor-infested kitchens and are arm-deep in dino p**p. That’s right, we’re chatting Jurassic Park, with a particular focus on what yet another Spielberg classic did for special FX. Join us: https://buff.ly/46TShK9

29/11/2023

This week we’re following ET and his friends and their race to escape and while we’re at it, we’re unpacking some outstanding moments of score from composer John Williams and delving a little behind the scenes of this Spielberg classic.

Get this into your earholes, folks: https://buff.ly/4747bNS 🎶

22/11/2023

This week, as part of our deep-dive season three, we’re spending a little bit of time examining Deloreans, sports almanacks and a fake Clint Eastwood. Join us: https://buff.ly/47286P3

15/11/2023

This week we’re spending some time on Amity Island to chat about all things Jaws but we’re keeping our ears open for menacing underwater intervals of doom. Listen now: https://buff.ly/3u1ys53

08/11/2023

This week we’re crashing through fields on a horse and cart and sliding super fast down snowy mountains just trying to get the little child of prophecy to Tir Asleen and along the way, unpacking the worldbuilding of Willow:

This week we’re crashing through fields on a horse and cart and sliding super fast down snowy mountains just trying to get the little child of prophecy to Tir Asleen and along the way, unpacking the worldbuilding of Willow. 

01/11/2023

This week we’re landing on a very rainy planet, popping a squat in some soup ladle seats and learning all about the mysterious custom clone order we don’t remember adding to cart… have a listen:

This week we’re landing on a very rainy planet, popping a squat in some soup ladle seats and learning all about the mysterious custom clone order we don’t remember adding to cart…

25/10/2023

Today we’re continuing our chat about Indiana Jones, but instead of viewing order, stuntmen and UK character actors (catch up on last week’s episode for that deep-dive) we’re going to follow the red-line air journey map animation through the character moments we’re shown on screen for everyone’s favourite whip-cracking, Nazi-punching archaeologist:

Today we’re continuing our chat about Indiana Jones, but instead of viewing order, stuntmen and UK character actors (catch up on last week’s episode for that deep-dive) we’re going to follow the red-line air journey map animation through the chara...

18/10/2023

Today we’re starting part one of a double episode where we chat about Indiana Jones, which is timely for when we’re recording but perhaps not for when you’re listening, as Dial of Destiny was released this week:

Today we’re starting part one of a double episode where we chat about Indiana Jones, which is timely for when we’re recording but perhaps not for when you’re listening, as Dial of Destiny was released this week. For this episode, we’re going ...

11/10/2023

Join us as in Season 3, episode 2 as we discuss facehuggers, replicants and Sean Connery in space:

Join us as we discuss facehuggers, replicants and Sean Connery in space. 

04/10/2023

Join us for the first in this season–which is actually number three, so go back and take a look at Star Wars for S1 & Star Trek for S2 if you’re keen–but in this season we’ll be taking some deep-dives into a few of our favourite things.

This might take the form of an in-depth focus of a particular sequence or narrative storyline, as is the case today, where we’re unpacking the opening set-piece of Return of the Jedi and chatting all things Luke’s grand plan: https://buff.ly/3ZmFMnl

Today we’re starting part one of a double episode where we chat about Indiana Jones, which is timely for when we’re recording but perhaps not for when you’re listening, as Dial of Destiny was released this week. For this episode, we’re going ...

27/09/2023

Season 3 of the podcast kicks off next week where we begin our deep-dive in a familiar place -- and giant slugs, dramatic orchestral stabs and sail barges, oh my! 👀

20/09/2023

New eps coming soon... so watch this space! We're gearing up for a series of deep-dives! 🙌

11/09/2023

23/08/2023

This episode finishes our three-parter covering the music of the Enterprise and beyond. Join us for the final of the Star Trek season for the podcast (this one at least!) as we check out Ensign Kim's Clarinet Recital and all the great musical stuff created for Trek on TV:

This episode finishes our three-parter covering the music of the Enterprise and beyond. The previous two episodes looked at the scores from the various Trek films, but today we’re going to focus on the great stuff created for TV!