Soho Bites Podcast

Soho Bites Podcast

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Soho Bites Podcast episodes

  • Mural Morsels 17 - Maude Stanley
    A series of short features made for Soho Radio. Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, Dom hears about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Stanley (Maude Stanley) from Emily White of London Youth.
    15 min
  • Moral Morsels 16 - Isaac Newton
    A series of short features made for Soho Radio. Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, Dom hears about Sir Isaac Newton from journalist and London tour guide, Ian McDiarmid.
    15 min
  • Mural Morsels 15 - William Blake
    A series of short features made for Soho Radio. Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, Dom hears about http://www.blakearchive.org/ (William Blake) from a trustee of the https://www.blakesociety.org/ (Blake Society), the cartoonist and illustrator, John Riordan.
    15 min
  • Mural Morsels 14 - Paul Verlaine
    A series of short features made for Soho Radio. Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, Dom talks to poet, https://twitter.com/NMcDevitt (Niall McDevitt) about another poet, Paul Verlaine.
    15 min
  • Mural Morsels 13 - John Snow
    A series of short features made for Soho Radio. Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, Dom talks to vlogger and London historian, Jago Hazzard about John Snow.
    14 min
  • Mural Morsels 12 - William Hogarth
    A series of short features made for https://sohoradiolondon.com/ (Soho Radio). Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, the subject is William Hogarth and https://twitter.com/dom_delargy (Dom) talks to art historian and Hogarth's biographer, Dr Jacqueline Riding. Originally broadcast on The Soho Hour on October 4th 2020.
    14 min
  • Soho Bites 17: Cover Girl Killer (1959)

    It’s all about mucky magazines in this episode, although the publication at the centre of our featured film is very mild stuff compared to others that would come after. In Cover Girl Killer from 1959, a madman played by Harry H Corbett is bumping off the models who appear on the cover of the fictional, “Wow!” magazine. Theatre director, Luke Dixon joins us to talk about the film and the conversation takes place in the very spot in which at least one of the murders occurs.

    This is the second Harry H Corbett Soho film we’ve talked about on Soho Bites, the first was Rattle of a Simple Man in episode 5. There’s one more to go….

    Cover Girl Killer trailer

    To kick off the show, Dom travelled out to Ealing to meet David McGillivray. Awarded the unofficial title,”The Truffaut of Smut” by Matthew Sweet, David literally wrote the book about the history of British sex films, Doing Rude Things, so Dom picked his brains about an early and prolific Soho smut-peddler, Harrison Marks.

    A couple of pictures of Harrison Marks - one where he's promoting Naked as Nature Intended in 1961 via the medium of one of his humorous faces and another towards the end of his life at home in Tottenham

    Listen to Luke Dixon’s recent appearance on Mural Morsels talking about Fanny Kelly and follow him on Instagram.

    Follow David McGillivray on Twitter and buy Doing Rude Things.

    Watch David and Julian Clary at the launch of his autobiography, Little Did You Know. Buy it HERE

    The originator of Soho Bites, Dr Jingan Young, has launched a new research project. Find out all about it on the Cities in Cinema website and follow the project on Twitter.

    Thank you for listening.

    Follow us on Blue Sky (our Xwitter account is no more)

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    We'd love it if you left us a lovely REVIEW.

    And if you'd like to help support the show we'd be very grateful.

    Check out our spin-off series Mural Morsels

    In fact, see all relevant links HERE

    47 min
  • Mural Morsels 11 - Ronnie Scott
    A series of short features made for Soho Radio. Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, Dom talks to painter, writer, musician & all-round polymath, Barry Fantoni, about his friend, Ronnie Scott.
    14 min
  • Soho Bites episode one
    In episode one of this new series of Soho Bites, Jingan Young talks to Professor Michael Berkowitz from UCL about the 1963 classic Soho movie, "The Small World of Sammy Lee" and Dom Delargy goes drinking in Soho with the chaps from ReelStreets.com
    40 min
  • Soho Bites 16: Soho Conspiracy (1950)

    The greatest bad film ever?

    This is our Fancey episode and no, that’s not a typo. Edwin J Fancey (or EJ) was a Soho based film producer and distributor who made a fortune by churning out cheaply made films and by not always operating within those pesky confines of the law.

    Fancey would have been forgotten, were it not for the efforts of Talking Pictures TV (who sometimes screen his films and even released a box set of his back catalogue) and those of Dr Adrian Smith from Sussex University who has researched and written about Fancey. He joins us in the first half of the show to talk about this forgotten Soho character.

    In the second half of the show, Dom is joined, in a socially distant manner of course, by all three presenters of the Talking Pictures TV podcast – Mel Byron, Scott Phipps and Daniel Reiffersheid – to discuss one of EJ Fancey’s films, Soho Conspiracy from 1950. It concerns the efforts of some people to raise some money…. to do a thing and… to have a… another thing, but the… some Italian people get excited…. er…. people in a restaurant….I have no idea what this terrible film is about.

    Not quite a trailer, more of a montage of random moments from Soho Conspiracy

    During the course of researching Soho Conspiracy, we discovered it was based on an Italian film called Mad About Opera. Not only based upon it though. It turns out that large portions of Mad About Opera are lifted wholesale and inserted into Soho Conspiracy. See the original, in it entirety, HERE (with English subtitles and a Russian voice over!)

    The “hilarious”, “Italian” waiters in Soho Conspiracy were played by tap dancing fraternal double-act, Syd & Max Harrison. You can watch them doing the day job that they arguably should have stuck to.

    Adrian Smith has a blog and regularly reviews films on Letterboxd. And today is as good a day as any to read his PhD thesis.

    The other projects of the Talking Pictures TV podcast team are many and varied:

    Mel Byron is a stand up comedian and Leadership Trainer. Find information about her on her website.

    Scott Phipps has, frankly, too many podcasts for one person. As well as TPTV he is part of The Reel Britannia podcast, Stinking Pause, and Rainbow Valley .

    Daniel Reifferscheid has two podcasts – brush up your Portugese for Prestes A Ver and if movie music is your thing, check out You Know the Score.

    The originator of Soho Bites, Dr Jingan Young, has launched a new research project. Find out all about it on the Cities in Cinema website and follow the project on Twitter.

    Thank you for listening.

    Follow us on Blue Sky (our Xwitter account is no more)

    We're now on YouTube

    Email us at [email protected]

    We'd love it if you left us a lovely REVIEW.

    And if you'd like to help support the show we'd be very grateful.

    Check out our spin-off series Mural Morsels

    In fact, see all relevant links HERE

    47 min

About Soho Bites Podcast

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Soho, that one square mile at the heart of bohemian, cosmopolitan London, has been the setting for a surprisingly large number of films. In each episode of Soho Bites, producer and presenter Dominic Delargy is joined by a special guest to discuss a different Soho film, accompanied by a shorter, thematically linked item drawing on Soho's rich history of crime, music, art, vice & film.

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