What happens when Terry Nation scribbles the idea for a story on the back of a fag packet, and it is of all people Douglas Adams that thereafter takes up the mantle?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Jim Cameron, Iain Martin and Dylan Rees

We were at a loose end, and this is how we filled the time

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Iain Martin

Martin Scorsese's latest is another three-hour epic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, but will it be in serious contention for this year's Best Picture Academy Award?

This episode presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Mark Donaldson

Alexander Payne's latest The Holdovers feels like a traditional Christmas tale told using some equally traditional trappings, but does it have enough about it to get it into this year's Academy Awards conversation?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Mark Donaldson

Saltburn: is it as sticky as it sounds?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Mark Donaldson

Our listeners voted on their favourite stories from the last two years of Doctor Who, and these are the results

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Mark Donaldson

Our podcast links page

Recorded at the end of last year, but now oddly even more relevant thanks to preva-Rishi-cation's comments about an autumn election, here are our thoughts on what 2024 might bring in the world of UK and US politics

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

A look back at this year's ghostly Yuletide fare, the latest A Ghost Story for Christmas (this time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lot 249), the final episode of Ghosts, and Imagine - Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Guest question-master Rod sets a fiendishly difficult (and unseasonably lengthy) post-Yuletide quiz, which mostly tests our stamina and summons forth more smut than solutions

Presented by Rod Brown, with Jon Arnold, Mark Cockram, Joe Ford and J.R. Southall

He's been a permanent fixture in the musical firmament for over half a century, so we couldn't think of a more appropriate way to end the year than with a tribute to Elton John after his retirement this summer

This episode presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Iain Martin