Radio 1's Screen Time

Radio 1's Screen Time episodes:

• 04.19.2024

  Such Brave Girls Interview special with Kat Sadler

  Such Brave Girls: the darker-than-dark BBC 3 sitcom that hopefully you’ve seen already… but then again, if you haven’t yet, that’s okay too because you’re really in for a treat. Ali’s such a fan he’s invited the star and creator,...

  
• 04.12.2024

  Movie News Round-Up plus Fallout Interviews feat Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins

  Fallout has landed - all eight episodes of it - and with it comes some interviews with BBC Radio 1's answer to "The Ghoul", Ali Plumb, as Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Walton Goggins and more sit down to...

  
• 04.05.2024

  Monkey Man interview special featuring Dev Patel and Jordan Peele

  You're a big fan of Dev Patel, of course you are. As is Jordan Peele, as is our Ali. So join us as we learn what trials and tribulations he endured and magnificently overcame in the process of putting together...

  
• 03.29.2024

  Poor Things Interviews feat. Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo and Ramy Youssef

  While Ali's been poorly of late, we're not going to let you down podcast-wise, no no no - so here are some Poor Things interviews we didn't include on Screen Time back when the film was first released in the...

  
• 03.22.2024

  Headlines! TV Recommendations! Ernie Hudson and McKenna Grace! Benedict Wong and John Bradley!

  Lots of exclamations in the title there, apologies - but then again, when you've got acting talent like this lot on your podcast, maybe a few exclamations can be forgiven. This week we have a slightly poorly Ali as he...

  
• 03.15.2024

  Ali’s Film Club: Back To The Future with Ben Schwartz!

  Friend of the show and casually very funny man Ben Schwartz - also known to some as Parks and Rec’s Jean-Ralphio, the voice of Sonic The Hedgehog and an improv artist extraordinaire - joins Ali this week to talk about...

  
• 03.08.2024

  News! Recommendations! The Gentlemen Interviews with Kaya Scodelario and Theo James!

  After a bit of news, a few recommendations for what you might want to watch this weekend - Dune Part Two is in cinemas too, let's not forget - a little later on in the podcast you’ll hear from two...

  
• 03.01.2024

  Spoiler-free Dune Part Two Review! Nicholas Galitzine Interview!

  Today we have a podcast of two halves: one half is a spoiler-free review of the long-awaited, eagerly anticipated Dune Part Two, the second part of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the classic Frank Herbert sci-fi novel, with friend of the...

  
• 02.23.2024

  BAFTAs reaction! Borderlands! The Fantastic Four! Plus Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley talk Wicked Little Letters

  A podcast of two halves for you this week as Ali reacts to some of the biggest movies and TV news stories of the past seven days - including the winners at the BAFTAs, but of course - then things...

  
• 02.16.2024

  One Day Spoiler Special Interview with Ambika Mod

  Netflix’s adaptation of David Nicholls’ much-loved novel One Day has been a storming success since it landed online last week, with seemingly everyone you know talking about Ambika Mod’s Emma and Leo Woodall’s Dexter with a tear in their eye...

  
• 02.09.2024

  Paul Mescal Story So Far Interview Special (plus news round-up!)

  Originally the plan was to speak to one "Martin Scorsese" - whoever he might be - for this week's podcast, but it was not to be. Alas and, indeed, alack. Stepping in, we have the full audio version of Paul...

  
• 02.02.2024

  Oscars 2024 Nominations Reaction with Ella Kemp

  Now that the dust has settled just a little bit, Ali has teamed up with fellow full-time film fan Ella Kemp - of Letterboxd’s ‘Four Faves’ fame - to talk through all the runners and riders for this year’s Academy...

  
• 01.26.2024

  Big Boys Interview Special with Jack Rooke

  All Of Us Strangers may finally be in cinemas - and Ali’s Story So Far interview with one of its stars, Paul Mescal, may be on be on BBC iPlayer right about now - but here on Radio 1’s Screen...

  
• 01.19.2024

  Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Interview Special with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

  It’s awards season! Poor Things came out last week, The Holdovers is out this week and All Of Strangers is out next week - so it’s a great time to be a film fan (moreso than ever). But here’s something...

  
• 01.12.2024

  2024's Big Ol' Film and TV Preview - With Must Watch's Scott Bryan!

  After checking his calendar a couple of times, Ali is pretty sure that 2024 is finally, definitely, absolutely here, and with it some very exciting films for us to all look forward to. But with Screen Time being a film...

  
• 01.05.2024

  Dan Levy Good Grief Interview Special (plus January 2024 preview!)

  Radio 1’s Screen Time welcomes in 2024 with a truly lovely interview with Dan Levy: writer, director, producer and star of Good Grief, a comedy-drama motion picture you can watch on Netflix, well, right about now. Chances are, you know...

  
• 12.29.2023

  Ali's Film Club Christmas Special: Die Hard

  Is Die Hard a Christmas film? It's a question seemingly as old as the movie itself - first came out in 1988, fact fans - but whatever your thoughts on that controversial pub conversation question, December seemed like the perfect...

  
• 12.22.2023

  Ncuti Gatwa Doctor Who Interview Special: Becoming... The Doctor

  There’s something very very exciting going on on your televisions this Christmas time - and that’s Ncuti Gatwa’s first fully-fledged standalone outing as The Doctor, Doctor Who, on BBC One. The Christmas special is called 'The Church On Ruby Road'...

  
• 12.15.2023

  2023 Review Of The Year Special!

  Friends of the show Clarisse Loughrey (The Independent's chief film critic) and Dan Layton (film and TV reviewer extraordinaire) join Ali once again to try and do justice to the year that was/is 2023, discussing their five favourite films and...

  
• 12.08.2023

  Wonka Interview Special Featuring Timothée Chalamet, Paul King, Olivia Colman and more

  If you were to cast a young Willy Wonka, who'd be your first choice for the role? Why it'd have to be Timothée Chalamet - but of course - just the sort of person who can sing and dance and...

  
• 12.01.2023

  Christmassy interviews with Hannah Waddingham and Asa Butterfield!

  It's beginning to look a lot like... December! Because, well, it is December - which means you can now officially (according to Ali, anyway) watch as many Christmas films, Christmas TV specials, Christmas musical extravaganzas as you jolly well wish....

  
• 11.24.2023

  Review Round-up and Vanessa Kirby Napoleon Interview

  Vanessa Kirby plays Josephine in Ridley Scott’s latest, Napoleon, finally out in cinemas this weekend, and, well, what do you know, with the strikes lifted she was able to join Ali for a conversation all about it which you’ll be...

  
• 11.17.2023

  The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Interview Special

  Have you heard? The SAG AFTRA actors strikes are over, which means there be actors in these here podcasts: namely Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer and Josh Andrés Rivera, the stars of the new Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad...

  
• 11.10.2023

  Interview Double-Bill! Saltburn's Emerald Fennell and The Marvels' Nia DaCosta

  So this is an unusual episode of Radio 1's Screen Time - sort of - in so far as there are not one but TWO interviews to enjoy, namely Saltburn's Emerald Fennell and The Marvels' Nia DaCosta. Plus, as a...

  
• 11.03.2023

  Reviewed: Killers Of The Flower Moon, The Killer, Bottoms, How To Have Sex

  Friend of the show and Independent film critic Clarisse Loughrey joins newcomer Dan Layton and good 'ol Ali Plumb this week for a triple-headed review-a-palooza tackling all of the big releases of that past few weeks, including Scorsese's latest, and,...

  
• 10.27.2023

  Throwback Interview Special: Becoming... Loki x2 with Tom Hiddleston

  With Ali only just back from his trip to the USA, we've been digging through the back catalogue for a throwback interview special, and look who popped up! Twice! Some handsome chap known as Tom Hiddleston, and with Loki back...

  
• 10.20.2023

  Ali's Film Club: Singin' In The Rain - With You're Dead To Me's Greg Jenner!

  Ali is still in California, no doubt trying to visit as many filming locations as possible, you know what he's like - and in that particular US state, there are more than a few filming locations worth visiting, that's for...

  
• 10.13.2023

  Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Bonus Interview - Bryan Intihar and Jon Paquette

  After last week's gaming special, here's a bonus interview for anyone who's just as excited as Ali about the imminent arrival of Insomniac Games' new Spider-Man outing. Bryan Intihar and Jon Paquette, two of the creative team behind the series...

  
• 10.06.2023

  Best Games Of 2023 (So Far!) Special - Featuring Aoife Wilson and Steffan Powell

  Yes, Screen Time is primarily a film 'n' TV podcast but Ali really does love his gaming, and let's be honest, chances are you do too. So joining him for a rambling journey around the best and biggest games of...

  
• 09.29.2023

  Gareth Edwards Interview Special: The Creator

  Gareth Edwards - the director who gave us Godzilla and Rogue One - has a new film out in cinemas this weekend and its name is The Creator. Amazingly, it's not based on any intellectual property you might know, making...

  
• 09.22.2023

  Dumb Money Interview Special With Director Craig Gillespie

  Dumb Money is in cinemas this week, telling the real-life story of the incredible GameSpot short squeeze of early 2021, centring around cat-obsessed, investing-obsessed real-life YouTuber RoaringKitty (aka Keith Gill, played in the film by Paul Dano). Yes, it's a...

  
• 09.15.2023

  Past Lives reviewed - Plus! Ali's Film Club: Us and Jordan Peele (With Vivian Oparah!)

  There's a whole lot going on in this week's podcast. In a good way! Ali and his new best friend - he likes to think, anyway - Vivian Oparah (Rye Lane, Class, Then You Run) chat about their new favourite...

  
• 09.08.2023

  Barbie! Oppenheimer! M:I 7! - 2023's Summer Blockbuster Review Round-Up

  As it's somehow September and summer blockbuster season winds up for another year, Ali invited fellow film critic Clarisse Loughrey into the Radio 1 studios to try to do justice to the biggest movies of the past few months -...

  
• 09.01.2023

  Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Spoiler Special - With DJ Ace!

  Yes, you're absolutely right: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse hit cinemas early June, but with summer wrapping up - how is it September already? - and the animated Spider-Sequel now on digital download, Ali and Ace thought it would be a...

  
• 08.25.2023

  Ali's Film Club: Palm Springs (With Starstruck's Nikesh Patel)

  Ali's ol' buddy ol' pal Nikesh Patel - who just so happens to be a very successful actor, off of Amazon's horror sci-fi The Devil's Hour and the BBC's Rose Matafeo rom-com series Starstruck - stopped by the BBC Radio...

  
• 08.18.2023

  Cillian Murphy's Movies That Made Me Interview Special

  Earlier this month Cillian Murphy appeared on Radio 1's Screen Time talking about Oppenheimer, his latest with the one and only Christopher Nolan, an epic biopic that is still doing incredibly well in cinemas across the world. But that conversation...

  
• 08.11.2023

  David Harbour Story So Far Interview Special

  You might know him best as Jim Hopper from Stranger Things, but this weekend David Harbour is petrolhead Jack Salter in Gran Turismo, one of those films where the plot is nigh-on unbelievable but somehow based on a true story....

  
• 08.04.2023

  Zoe Saldaña's Movies That Made Me

  Zoe Saldaña is an incredible actress and one we've long wanted to speak to for a 'Movies That Made Me' here at Radio 1's Screen Time - that said, the reason she was in town early in July talking to...

  
• 07.28.2023

  David Tennant and Michael Sheen - Good Omens S2 Interview Special

  Speaking with Ali in back early July, David Tennant and Michael Sheen were on fine, fine form talking about the second series of Amazon Prime Video's heavenly / devilish show Good Omens - based on the book by Neil Gaiman...

  
• 07.21.2023

  Oppenheimer Interview Special - Cillian Murphy, Christopher Nolan, Robert Downey Jr.

  Christopher Nolan's epic biopic Oppenheimer is finally in cinemas, a three-hour treat-yourself-to-IMAX thriller featuring an absolutely incredible cast, including Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Rami Malek and two of our guests on this here podcast, Robert Downey Jr. and The Man...

  
• 07.21.2023

  Barbie Interview Special - Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Greta Gerwig and more

  Hey Barbie! Hey Ken! Margot Robbie (Barbie herself) and Ryan Gosling (just Ken) speak to Ali Plumb about Greta Gerwig's Barbie, touching on such hot button topics as the Barbie slide, the Barbie wave, Barbie memes, Ken's rollerskates, Ken's tricky-to-say...

  
• 07.14.2023

  Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One Interview Special

  Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Cary Elwes, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby... the cast of the latest Mission: Impossible is actually truly ridiculously charming, and this podcast proves that and then some. So imagine you're balancing on top of a...

  
• 07.07.2023

  The Witcher Series 3 Interview Special - Freya Allen, Joey Batey, Anya Chalotra

  The Witcher has returned to Netflix for a third series, but in two parts: one already up (from June 29) and the second still to come (July 27). What's more, this is the final season with Henry Cavill as Geralt Of...

  
• 06.30.2023

  Black Mirror Series 6 Interview Special - Featuring Charlie Brooker, Kate Mara and more

  Black Mirror, everyone's favourite dystopian sci-fi anthology series from the twisted mind - in a good way! - of Charlie Brooker, has come back after a lengthy break with a new series, four episodes of small screen panic attacks that...

  
• 06.23.2023

  Wes Anderson Asteroid City Interview Special

  Beloved writer-director Wes Anderson needs no introduction - he of The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Rushmore fame - though Ali has a good bash at it, nervously and excitedly enthusing over the...

  
• 06.16.2023

  Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny Interview Special

  Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, the fifth Indy adventure, finally hits cinemas on June 30, with the final archeological outing seeing The Man In The Hat - one Harrison Ford - hanging up his, um, hat. Joining him...

  
• 06.09.2023

  Andrew Garfield Movies That Made Me interview

  Ali is away on his hols so we bring you another chance to hear the classic Andrew Garfield Movies That Made Me interview from early 2022. He's a charmer, he really is. The pair talk about everything from The...

  
• 06.02.2023

  Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Interview Special

  Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Daniel Kaluuya, Jake Johnson, Phil Lord and Chris Miller swung onto a Zoom to chat to Ali recently, as the follow-up to 2018's Oscar winner Into The Spider-Verse finally thwips into cinemas. Expect conversation concerning baby...

  
• 05.26.2023

  Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 Spoiler Special with DJ Ace

  Been a minute since we last had a spoiler special on this here podcast but Guardians 3 seems like the perfect excuse for Ali and Ace to get back in the studio to talk in nerdy detail about their favourite...

  
• 05.19.2023

  Ali's Film Club: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (With Aoife Wilson)

  Have you heard? Video game adaptations are back, and they are making big money. Well, Super Mario Bros. certainly is, and The Last Of Us is a critical darling, which means many more gaming do-overs will be on the way....