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04/12/2024

Daniel Ruiz Tizon's Advent Calendar is now available on Spotify.
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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.
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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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Life is too short for bad films. Every day we add a cinematic gem to our carefully curated selection. Start your free month now.

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.

23/07/2024

This week on Made in England I am joined by film historian and novelist Christian Hayes to discuss short silent films made in England from 1895 to 1906, a period of great technical and narrative leaps. Georges Méliès, the Lumiere brothers and Thomas Edison are well known, but there are also a number of English pioneers were equally important. We discuss the works and technical innovations of the likes of R.W. Paul, G.A. Smith and Cecil Hepworth.

Cinema was born at the end of the nineteenth century and the early period saw great technical and artistic leaps. Georges Méliès, the Lumiere brothers and Thomas Edison are well known, but there are also a number of English pioneers were equally important. We discuss the works and technical innova...

02/07/2024

Alex Cox, writer-director of Repo Man and Sid & Nancy, and original Moviedrome presenter, is the guest on this week's Made in England. Alex and Jack discuss Lindsay Anderson's TV debut - The Old Crowd (1979), an Alan Bennett-scripted satire about an upper-middle class dinner party where cracks are appearing in the walls of George and Betty’s upper-middle class home, and in society at large.

Lindsay Anderson made his TV debut in 1979 with The Old Crowd , an Alan Bennett-scripted satire about an upper-middle class dinner party where cracks are appearing in the walls of George and Betty’s upper-middle class home, and in society at large.  Alex Cox , writer-director of Repo Man

28/06/2024

On this week's Made in England, documentary filmmaker Jeanie Finlay (Your Fat Friend, The Great Hip Hop Hoax) talks about Powell and Pressburger's 1947 masterpiece A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.
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Jeanie Finlay: Artist and Filmmaker

A British pilot falls in love with an American radio operator in the moments before his plane crashlands, and his survival causes turmoil in the heavenly realm. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s World War II fantasy-romance A Matter of Life and Death (1946) is one of the most beloved British...

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

16/05/2024

New episode of Made in England:

Burning an Illusion (1981), written and directed by Menelik Shabazz, is a landmark of UK cinema, often billed as the first British film to give a central voice to a black woman. The film follows 22-year-old Pat as she navigates relationship struggles, societal pressures and systemic racism. 30 years later, Steve McQueen’s film Lovers Rock would draw from a similar milieu.

Film curator Tega Okiti, who voted for this film in the 2022 Sight & Sound magazine poll of the greatest films ever made, joins Jack McInroy to discuss the film.

Burning an Illusion (1981) , written and directed by Menelik Shabazz, is a landmark of UK cinema, often billed as the first British film to give a central voice to a black woman. The film follows 22-year-old Pat as she navigates relationship struggles, societal pressures and systemic racism. 30

02/04/2024

MADE IN ENGLAND is a new podcast on Hold Fast.

Join Jack McInroy as he delves into the history of English cinema, one film at a time.

First episode is All of Us Strangers (2023) with guest John Grindrod.

All of Us Strangers (2023) is written and directed by Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) and stars Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy.  Jack McInroy is joined by John Grindrod , author of Iconicon , Outskirts and Concretopia , to discuss the film.  H

23/01/2024

Steve Walsh Blog Archive 2010 - 2012

Before South London Hardcore and into the first year of the show, Steve was quite a prolific blogger. You won’t find any of his writing by googling “Steve Walsh blog”, as he them wrote under the name Masal Bugduv, a fictional Moldovan youth footballer. Some of these blogs have few or no entries, but I include them here to continue the celebration of incomplete works à la Where the Light Shines Through.

Before South London Hardcore and into the first year of the show, Steve was quite a prolific blogger. You won’t find any of his writing by googling “Steve Walsh blog”, as he them wrote under the name Masal Bugduv, a fictional Moldovan youth footballer. Some of these blogs have few or no entrie...

23/01/2024

BONUS EPISODE: The Lost Resonance FM Pilot

Back in 2014, we recorded a radio-friendly pilot episode of South London Hardcore for Resonance FM. It never aired…. until now.

Back in 2014, we recorded a radio-friendly pilot episode of South London Hardcore for Resonance FM. It never aired…. until now. Illustration: Owen D. Pomery