We're taking a summer break for a few months, but we'll be back soon, so watch this space!

Plus Ros answers some of your questions and hands out the coveted 'awards' for series 1 of the podcast: including the ones the Academy were too cowardly to do!

Thanks for listening to series 1 and if you'd like to get in touch drop us a line at [email protected] or @hmpocast.bsky.social

Yoreflix: the NEW streaming service for historical drama. Interview with founder Imogen Cooper

Yoreflix founder Imogen Cooper talks to Ros about the new streaming service for historical dramas and movies and outlines what makes it unique in the field of streaming platforms.

We talk about Imogen’s background as an executive producer and her passion for history, what inspired her to create Yoreflix and talk more broadly about historical movies and dramas.

If the sound of Yoreflix has piqued your interest you can join the waitlist and get involved at www.yoreflix.com

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Amadeus (1984) takes centre stage for this episode of the Historical Movies Podcast: starring F. Murray Abraham as Antonia Salieri, Tom Hulce as ‘Wolfie’ Mozart and directed by Miloš Forman.

Amadeus portrays Mozart as an arrogant, infantile, foul mouthed brat?

But how historically accurate is that? And we also take a look at the supposed rivalry between these two 18th century composers.

Plus: Mozart’s love of toilet-humour, implausibly quick musical notation and why is this movie actually called Amadeus?

Joining Ros in this episode is Jack CT Adams, PhD is contemporary classical composition at Portsmouth University.

Know the recipe for Venus’ Nipples or would just like to get in touch? Drop us a line at [email protected] or @hmpodcast.bsky.social

The Two Popes - starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins, directed by Fernando Meirelles and written by Anthony McCarten - takes centre stage in this episode of the Historical Movies Podcast.

We ask what the film makers got right and wrong in their depiction of Popes Benedict XVI and Francis and analyse the history of the Papacy shown in the movie: did Popes Benedict and Francis really watch the World Cup Final together? Did Benedict like Fanta? And was Kommissar Rex really his favourite television show?

Plus would this movie have benefited from being called 'The Pope' as originally planned, Anthony Hopkins' admirable decision not to go back to bad stroke acting and much more!

Know where we can buy a Benedict XVI Pope Fitness Watch or would just like to get in touch about our take on The Two Popes? Drop us a line at [email protected]

Legends of the Fall – is it the most ‘90s movies of all time? We take a look through this classic from 1994, directed by Edward Zwick and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn and Julia Ormond.

We discuss some of the history covered including the true story behind the World War I football in the trenches, why Americans went off to fight for the British Empire and was Colonel Ludlow a suspect in the JFK assassination.

Plus: Really, really, really bad acting, a stroke previously unknown to science, how this movie toned down the original novel and the lifespan of grizzly bears.

Know where we can book tickets for the Anthony Hopkins Accent World Tour, or would just like to get in touch? Drop us a line at [email protected]

After covering 25 movies on the podcast we take some time out to answer some of the comments and questions you've contacted us with - some of which may be of dubious origin but all of which stimulate our discussion. Enjoy!

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Walk the Line, the Johnny Cash biopic starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon takes centre stage in this week’s episode of the Historical Movies Podcast.

We talk through the history of the period, what makes this such a great movie and what it gets historically right and wrong.

Plus the difficulty of actually ripping a sink off the wall, the latest hot gossip about Mini Driver and having the T-1000 as your Dad.

Have you seen another movie starring Betsy Purvis, harried-mother specialist Natalie Canerday, or would just like to get in touch? Drop us a line at [email protected]

Aubrey and Maturin - best friends forever! We take a look through the brilliant Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany. The number one movie that deserved a sequel that it never got.

We talk through the life and times of Thomas Cochrane – the real life inspiration behind Jack Aubrey and revel in the historical age of Enlightenment and the Napoleonic naval combat that serve as this film’s backdrop.

Plus why we never got a sequel, the magic brain coin, Little Lord Blakeney’s quiet ghastly amputation and spliiiiice the mainbraaaaaace mister maaaaaate!

Fancy rightfully redistributing some of Return of the King's 11 Oscars to Master and Commander, or would just like to get in touch? Drop us a line at [email protected]

We talk through Mississippi Burning, starring Gene Hack, Willem Dafoe and Frances McDormand and take a look at the real history behind the events shown in the movie. We analyse the controversies surrounding it and ask whether it’s fundamentally racist, of it’s time, misunderstood or a luvvies’ version of a middle class angst-ridden redemption.

Plus the genius of the great Gene Hackman, the world’s most incomprehensible graph, sweaty, sweaty armpits and brow-line glasses, and an analysis of KKK bumper stickers.

Have an opinion on whether the Hackman-nut-grab is the greatest prehension of the testicles in cinema history, or would just like to get in touch? Drop us a line at [email protected]

We take a look at Robert Eggers’ directorial debut The Witch (2015) AKA 'The VVitch' – starring Anya Taylor-Joy in her breakout role, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie and Harvey Scrimshaw.

We talk through the history of witchcraft in early modern Europe and how it inspired this movie – with much of the dialogue being lifted directly from historical sources.

Plus: fans of Black Philip, the best witch’s familiars’ names, the true horror of Mathew Hopkins (Witchfinder General) and Bryce recalls our encounter with a possessed seminary!

Wouldst thou like to live deliciously, or just get in touch? Drop us a line at [email protected]