In the lead-up to THE ODYSSEY, Sam and Natalia begin their Christopher Nolan watch-along series by immediately arguing about Christopher Nolan's films.

Topics of conversation include whether Nolan is British, Steven Spielberg directing OPPENHEIMER, normies, "I'm in the Mood for Dancing", watching films in the cinema, why people who like THE DARK KNIGHT are annoying, BARBIE, Jordan Peele, getting tickets to see THE ODYSSEY, the box office, blank cheques, pursuing filmmaking with no money, two wolves, the premise of FOLLOWING, disliking INTERSTELLAR, the medical condition from MEMENTO, and whether MAN OF STEEL counts as a Christopher Nolan film.

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‘Learning British: A Film and TV Podcast’ (or just ‘Learning British’) is a weekly show hosted by Sam Brown, a born-and-bred Brit, and Natalia Brammen, a Polish immigrant living in the UK.

In each episode, Sam introduces Natalia to a new British film or TV show. From badly aged sitcoms to acclaimed dramas, they explore what these films and TV shows reveal about British culture, history, and identity.

You can keep up with the podcast on Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/learningbritishfilmtv/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyWasTheRobot

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learningbritish

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Sam and Natalia watch, review, and rank all four 28 DAYS LATER films.

Intro: 00:00 - 01:09

28 DAYS LATER: 01:09 - 26:12

28 WEEKS LATER: 26:12 - 01:05:02

28 YEARS LATER: 01:05:02 - 01:51:48

THE BONE TEMPLE: 01:51:48 - 02:12:34

Final ranking: 02:12:34 - 02:19:25

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‘Learning British: A Film and TV Podcast’ (or just ‘Learning British’) is a weekly show hosted by Sam Brown, a born-and-bred Brit, and Natalia Brammen, a Polish immigrant living in the UK.

In each episode, Sam introduces Natalia to a new British film or TV show. From badly aged sitcoms to acclaimed dramas, they explore what these films and TV shows reveal about British culture, history, and identity.

You can keep up with the podcast on Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/learningbritishfilmtv/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyWasTheRobot 

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learningbritish

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Sam and Natalia finish their 28 DAYS LATER retrospective by reviewing Nia DaCosta's 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE.

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE is the fourth (and, currently, final) entry in the 28 DAYS LATER film series, staring Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Chi Lewis-Parry. The film follows Spike as he is adopted into "Sir Lord" Jimmy Crystal's satanic cult while Dr Kelson makes an unexpected connection with Samson, an Alpha Infected.

Despite underperforming at the box office, Nia DaCosta's turn in the director's seat garnered critical acclaim. But do Sam and Natalia feel the same way? And what does a film, directed by an American, say about British culture?

Topics of conversation include CANDYMAN and THE MARVELS, terrible movie titles, Jimmy Savile, whether there will be another 28 YEARS LATER film, Poochie from Itchy & Scratchy, HARRY POTTER, lockdown London, I AM LEGEND, Justin Trudeau and Louis Theroux, GAVIN & STACEY, psychopaths, Letterboxd, LEARNING POLISH, punishment, crucifixion, Satan, snacks, sampling biases, and bad jokes.

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‘Learning British: A Film and TV Podcast’ (or just ‘Learning British’) is a weekly show hosted by Sam Brown, a born-and-bred Brit, and Natalia Brammen, a Polish immigrant living in the UK. 

In each episode, Sam introduces Natalia to a new British film or TV show. From badly aged sitcoms to acclaimed dramas, they explore what these films and TV shows reveal about British culture, history, and identity. 

You can keep up with the podcast on Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit. 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/learningbritishfilmtv/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyWasTheRobot 

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learningbritish

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Sam and Natalia continue their watchalong of the 28 DAYS LATER films with the second sequel, 28 YEARS LATER.

28 YEARS LATER is a 2025 zombie horror film starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes. It follows Spike, a boy living in a post-apocalyptic Britain, who undertakes a hazardous journey with his ill mother.

After their cold reaction to 28 WEEKS LATER, will Sam and Natalia like 28 YEARS LATER with Danny Boyle back in the director’s chair?

Topics of conversation include Sam's New Yorker subscription, Alex Garland, guessing the twist ending, Cillian Murphy cameos, NOT GOING OUT, the pigeon lady from HOME ALONE 2, Catholic religious imagery, the scariness of VHS, disturbing TELETUBIES, Margot Robbie, HOODWINKED!, Ingerland, sheep in Wales, the St George’s Cross, the woke police, iPhone ringtones, the effect of World War II on British culture, boots, boots, boots, "If you fancy the Jonas Brothers", M. Night Shyamalan’s THE VILLAGE, Brexit, millennial bacon love, ELVIS,  stupid characters in horror films, I AM LEGEND, memento mori, and really bad Jimmys.

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‘Learning British: A Film and TV Podcast’ (or just ‘Learning British’) is a weekly show hosted by Sam Brown, a born-and-bred Brit, and Natalia Brammen, a Polish immigrant living in the UK.

In each episode, Sam introduces Natalia to a new British film or TV show. From badly aged sitcoms to acclaimed dramas, they explore what these films and TV shows reveal about British culture, history, and identity.

You can keep up with the podcast on Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/learningbritishfilmtv/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyWasTheRobot

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learningbritish

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Sam and Natalia continue their listener-requested 28 DAYS LATER watchalong by reacting to its first sequel, 28 WEEKS LATER.

28 WEEKS LATER is a 2007 zombie horror film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, starring Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, and Idris Elba. Set six months after the events of the first film, 28 WEEKS LATER follows two young children (portrayed by Mackintosh Muggleton and Imogen Poots) who accidentally reintroduce the rage virus to London after breaking out of a NATO-enforced quarantine zone.

Generally considered weaker than its predecessor, 28 WEEKS LATER has since been critically reappraised as an 'underrated' sequel. Is it? Sam and Natalia find out. 

Topics of conversation include mispronouncing Spanish names, that viral opening scene, running away, THE BONE TEMPLE, that FAMILY GUY gag about logos, BONES AND ALL, too much pasta, metaphors for the 2008 financial crisis, Natalia's scary toe, famous last words, speeding up TikToks, old people sacrificing themselves, THE TRAITORS, the opening scene of SCREAM, human morality, Nicholas Hoult's zombie movie, bad writing, stupid children, hilariously terrible London geography in films and TV shows, the BFI, filming outside 10 Downing Street, Gordon Brown, the DLR, 28 MONTHS LATER, the Jeremy Renner app, the Idris Elba subreddit, and YOU.

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‘Learning British: A Film and TV Podcast’ (or just ‘Learning British’) is a weekly show hosted by Sam Brown, a born-and-bred Brit, and Natalia Brammen, a Polish immigrant living in the UK. 

In each episode, Sam introduces Natalia to a new British film or TV show. From badly aged sitcoms to acclaimed dramas, they explore what these films and TV shows reveal about British culture, history, and identity. 

You can keep up with the podcast on Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit. 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/learningbritishfilmtv/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyWasTheRobot 

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learningbritish

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Is 28 DAYS LATER the best British horror film? Sam and Natalia sit down and watch Danny Boyle’s 2002 horror masterpiece.

28 DAYS LATER (2002) follows Jim (Cillian Murphy), a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to discover that the accidental release of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus has caused the collapse of the UK. Joining forces with Selena (Naomie Harris), Frank (Brendan Gleeson), and Hannah (Megan Burns), Jim seeks refuge in war-torn Manchester, hoping to find protection under the guard of Major Henry West (Christopher Eccleston).

A specific request from a long-time listener of the podcast prompts Sam and Natalia to sit down and watch this early 2000s British classic. 

Topics of conversastion include Susan Boyle, guerrilla filmmaking, empty London, the song from that famous Cadbury advert, SCOOBY-DOO ON ZOMBIE ISLAND, Catholicism, priests, fast zombies, the immortal Reddit snail, IT FOLLOWS, Jordan Peele's films, the Loch Ness Monster, COVID-19, St Thomas' Hospital, pithecophobia, Brexit, PETA ruining the world, Letterboxd reviews, and 28 WEEKS LATER's viral opening scene.

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‘Learning British: A Film and TV Podcast’ (or just ‘Learning British’) is a weekly show hosted by Sam Brown, a born-and-bred Brit, and Natalia Brammen, a Polish immigrant living in the UK. 

In each episode, Sam introduces Natalia to a new British film or TV show. From badly aged sitcoms to acclaimed dramas, they explore what these films and TV shows reveal about British culture, history, and identity. 

You can keep up with the podcast on Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit. 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/learningbritishfilmtv/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyWasTheRobot 

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learningbritish

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Sam and Natalia begin the 2026 season of the LEARNING BRITISH podcast by watching and reviewing series four of THE TRAITORS.

THE TRAITORS is a British reality TV show hosted by Claudia Winkleman. The show features a group of contestants participating in a social deduction game in which a small group of contestants become Traitors, who must work together to eliminate the Faithfuls. Series Four features twenty-two players, with Stephen, Rachel, Hugo, and Fiona donning the famous Traitor cloaks.

Topics of conversation include the Year of the Fire Horse, elaborate podcast studios, Russian psychological games, the American TRAITORS, viewing figures, generational divides, Secret Traitors, Hugo and Linda, the Fiona outburst, interrupting people at the Round Table, feminism, queen behaviour, influencers, James Corden with Justin Bieber, banishment, setting cats among the pigeons, THE HUNGER GAMES, Harry from Series Two, yelling, “Who is keeping me in this game?”, Alan Carr on THE CELEBRITY TRAITORS, family trees, who won THE TRAITORS series four, and 28 DAYS LATER.

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‘Learning British: A Film and TV Podcast’ (or just ‘Learning British’) is a weekly show hosted by Sam Brown, a born-and-bred Brit, and Natalia Brammen, a Polish immigrant living in the UK.

In each episode, Sam introduces Natalia to a new British film or TV show. From badly aged sitcoms to acclaimed dramas, they explore what these films and TV shows reveal about British culture, history, and identity.

You can keep up with the podcast on Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/learningbritishfilmtv/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyWasTheRobot

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learningbritish

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Sam and Natalia finish their HARRY POTTER series by playing and reviewing HOGWARTS LEGACY.

HOGWARTS LEGACY is a 2023 action role-playing game developed by Avalanche Software and published by Portkey Games. Set in the 1890s at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the player takes on the role of a fifth-year wizarding student (voiced by Sebastian Croft or Amelia Gething) who must use ancient magic to bring down Ranrok, the leader of a goblin rebellion, and Victor Rookwood, the leader of a group of Dark Wizards.

Sam and Natalia cap off the 2025 season of the LEARNING BRITISH podcast with HOGWARTS LEGACY.

Topics of conversation include millionaires, the new HBO TV show, following traffic rules in GRAND THEFT AUTO, Arthur Conan Doyle, fanfiction, TWILIGHT, Vines, separating art from the artist, privately owned Scottish castles, brain mould, POKÉMON BRILLIANT DIAMOND, transgender barmaids, Pottermore, J. K. Rowling’s descent into madness, British awkwardness, Piccadilly Circus, THE SUN and THE DAILY MAIL, and what Sam and Natalia are going to review next year. 

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If you liked this episode, you may also like...

• In "Harry Potter is bad, actually", Sam and Natalia watch and review every HARRY POTTER film and book (On Spotify / On Apple).

‘Learning British: A Film and TV Podcast’ (or just ‘Learning British’) is a weekly show hosted by Sam Brown, a born-and-bred Brit, and Natalia Brammen, a Polish immigrant living in the UK.

In each episode, Sam introduces Natalia to a new British film or TV show. From badly aged sitcoms to acclaimed dramas, they explore what these films and TV shows reveal about British culture, history, and identity.

You can keep up with the podcast on Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/learningbritishfilmtv/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyWasTheRobot

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learningbritish

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Sam and Natalia watch and review the new Cartoon Network animated show, THE WONDERFULLY WEIRD WORLD OF GUMBALL. 

THE WONDERFULLY WEIRD WORLD OF GUMBALL is an animated children's show which follows Gumball Watterson (voiced by Alkaio Thiele), a blue 12-year-old cat, and his 10-year-old adopted brother, Darwin (voiced by Hero Hunter), a goldfish. Co-produced across the United States, Europe, and the UK, it is technically just British enough to talk about. Probably.

Sam and Natalia voyage to the BFI Southbank to watch two episodes of THE WONDERFULLY WEIRD WORLD OF GUMBALL, “The Burger” (episode one) and “The Gourmet” (episode sixteen), alongside a Q&A from the producers and actors. 

Topics of conversation include Hulu, MACBETH, American PSYOPs, good SPONGEBOB, adult jokes in children’s TV shows, BREAKING BAD, /r/AITA Reddit stories, inflatable castles, AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER, different animation styles, THE SIMPSONS, Terence Davies, PARASITE, kino, ASMR, goodie bags, DAS KAPITAL, Gumball’s ears, ham sandwiches, AMERICAN IDOL, and British rain. 

Don’t forget to ⁠follow and find us on Instagram⁠ (@learningbritishfilmtv) and follow us on Reddit (r/learningbritish). 

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If you liked this episode, you may also like...

• In "Harry Potter is bad, actually", Sam and Natalia watch and review all the HARRY POTTER films, from THE SORCERER'S STONE to THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (On Spotify / On Apple).
• In "Doctor Who: Series Fifteen", Sam and Natalia watch and review the most recent series of DOCTOR WHO with Ncuti Gatwa (On Spotify / On Apple)

‘Learning British: A Film and TV Podcast’ (or just ‘Learning British’) is a weekly show hosted by Sam Brown, a born-and-bred Brit, and Natalia Brammen, a Polish immigrant living in the UK. 

In each episode, Sam introduces Natalia to a new British film or TV show. From badly aged sitcoms to acclaimed dramas, they explore what these films and TV shows reveal about British culture, history, and identity. 

You can keep up with the podcast on Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit. 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/learningbritishfilmtv/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyWasTheRobot 

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learningbritish

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Sam and Natalia go to the 2025 London Film Festival in this bonus episode of the LEARNING BRITISH podcast.

The 69th BFI London Film Festival (LFF) took place from 8th to the 19th of October, 2025. Sam and Natalia saw eight films total across the festival. Jump ahead to the timestamps below to hear our reviews of each: 

(03:15) H IS FOR HAWK

(05:50) ENZO

(09:22) DIE, MY LOVE

(11:14) & SONS

(15:48) ROSE OF NEVADA

(20:38) LADY

(27:36) AFTER THE HUNT

(38:28) WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

Topics of conversation include kino, movie ticket prices, ornithophobia, Claire Foy, Ukraine, Mark Jenkin, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, living in France, Lynne Ramsay, Jennifer Lawrence winning her next Oscar for Best Actress, Bill Nighy, dialogue sinking, Noah Jupe, Cornish science-fiction, ENYS MEN, Russell Tovey, those rubbish FANTASTIC BEASTS films, Luca Guadagnino, "It's French", Sian Clifford in FLEABAG, the British class system, mockumentaries, Julia Roberts and #MeToo, Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, Josh O'Connor becoming the new Pedro Pascal, Agatha Christie, THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB, and, of course, our Gumball water bottle.

Follow Sam's Letterboxd account here (@SkyWasTheRobot).

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‘Learning British: A Film and TV Podcast’ (or just ‘Learning British’) is a weekly show hosted by Sam Brown, a born-and-bred Brit, and Natalia Brammen, a Polish immigrant living in the UK.

In each episode, Sam introduces Natalia to a new British film or TV show. From badly aged sitcoms to acclaimed dramas, they explore what these films and TV shows reveal about British culture, history, and identity.

You can keep up with the podcast on Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/learningbritishfilmtv/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyWasTheRobot

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learningbritish

SPOILER EXPLANATION BELOW:

H IS FOR HAWK (includes a brief description of the premise, but no other spoilers)

ENZO (includes spoilers, in addition to a brief discussion on the last scene)

DIE, MY LOVE (includes a brief description of the premise, but no other spoilers)

& SONS (includes mild-spoilers, in addition to discussing a reveal which takes place approximately thirty minutes into the film)

ROSE OF NEVADA (includes a brief description of the premise, but no other spoilers)

LADY (includes a brief description of the premise, but no other spoilers)

AFTER THE HUNT (includes spoilers, in addition to the ending)

WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (includes a brief description of the premise, but no other spoilers)

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