Made in England

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 

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After the radio and television success of Hancock’s Half Hour, Tony Hancock made his big screen debut with The Rebel (1961), playing a bored office clerk who trades the City of London for the Paris art scene. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, directed by Robert Day. 

Director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye, Toast of London) joins to discuss the film. Michael will be on tour with his film, Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes, in October and November. 

Host: Jack McInroy 

Guest: Michael Cumming

Theme music: Harlow Family Group 

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John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981) is an epic retelling of the King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table myth with plenty of sex, violence and sumptuous visuals. 

Filmmaking duo David and Nathan Zellner, whose movies include Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) and Sasquatch Sunet (2024), join to discuss the film. 

Bonus chat with the Zellner brothers about directing Showtime’s The Curse, is on the Made in England YouTube channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/@madeinenglandpodcast

Host: Jack McInroy

Guest: David and Nathan Zellner

Theme music: Harlow Family Group 

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What if you woke up one day and nobody in the world could remember the Beatles except you? That is the premise of Yesterday (2019), the film that united two of British cinema’s biggest names, director Danny Boyle’s and screenwriter Richard Curtis. With the Fab Four’s entire songbook at his disposal, can struggling singer-songwriter Jack Malick finally make it big? 

Stephen Graham, musicologist based at Goldsmiths and author of Becoming Noise Music, joins to discuss the film. 

Host: Jack McInroy

Guest: Stephen Graham

Theme music: Harlow Family Group 

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The Elephant Man (1980) tells the story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a severely deformed man in Victorian-era London, saved from a freak show and brought into the care of Dr Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) at the London Hospital. The film was nominated for eight Oscars. Directed by David Lynch following his debut film Eraserhead, The Elephant Man is sometimes seen as an outlier in his career, but there are themes and motifs that appear throughout Lynch’s filmography. 

Screenwriter and journalist Jeff Jensen joins to discuss the film. Jeff wrote on the HBO series Watchmen, Disney’s Tomorrowland, and the Eisner-winning graphic novel, Green River Killer, as well as co-hosting Entertainment Weekly’s Twin Peaks podcast. 

Host: Jack McInroy

Guest: Jeff Jensen

Theme music: Harlow Family Group 

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Vivian Stanshall returned Rawlinson End, his influential comedy opus, throughout his career, first recording it as a BBC radio series in 1975, then as a record in 1978. The 1980 film adaptation, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, stars Trevor Howard as the titular Sir Henry, an eccentric custodian of a crumbling British country estate who is trying to exorcise the trouserless ghost of his brother.  

S.J. Harris, author of the graphic novel Eustace, joins to discuss the film. 

Host: Jack McInroy

Guest: S.J. Harris

Theme music: Harlow Family Group 

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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 innovations of the likes of R.W. Paul, G.A. Smith and Cecil Hepworth. 

Novelist and film historian Christian Hayes is the guest. 

Films covered: 

A Rough Sea At Dover (1895) 

Blackfriars Bridge (1896) 

Upside Down; or, the Human Flies (1899)

The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899)

Grandma's Reading Glass (1900) 

How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)

Attack on a China Mission (1900) 

Army Life; or, How Soldiers Are Made: Mounted Infantry (1900)

Cheese Mites; or, Lilliputians in a London Restaurant (1901)

The Big Swallow (1901) 

Fire! (1901) 

Undressing Extraordinary (1901) 

The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901) 

Rescued by Rover (1905) 

The ? Motorist (1906)

Host: Jack McInroy

Guest: Christian Hayes

Theme music: Harlow Family Group 

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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 and Sid & Nancy, and original Moviedrome presenter, joins Jack McInroy to discuss the film. 

Alex is currently crowdfunding what he’s billing as his last film, a western adaptation of Gogol’s Dead Souls. You can back the project here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexcoxfilms/my-last-movie

Host: Jack McInroy

Guest: Alex Cox

Theme music: Harlow Family Group 

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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 films ever made, ranking 78th in Sight & Sound magazine’s poll of the greatest films ever made. 

Documentary filmmaker Jeanie Finlay (Your Fat Friend, Seahorse, Orion: The Man Who Would Be King) joins Jack McInroy to discuss the film. 

Host: Jack McInroy

Guest: Jeanie Finlay

Theme music: Harlow Family Group 

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Up the Junction, Nell Dunn’s 1963 short story collection about contemporary life in working class Battersea has been adapted twice, first by Ken Loach for the BBC’s Wednesday Play, broadcast in 1965, then as a big screen romantic drama for Paramount Pictures in 1968. While both films retain much of Dunn’s dialogue and the harrowing social issues she highlighted, the story and aesthetics between the versions are very different. 

Jack McInroy is joined by author and illustrator Lizzy Stewart to discuss both films. Lizzy’s books include the prose-comics hybrids Alison and Walking Tall, and the children’s picture book There’s A Tiger in the Garden, which won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and a World Illustration Award. 

Host: Jack McInroy

Guest: Lizzy Stewart

Theme music: Harlow Family Group 

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