First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 11th 2023

My regular co-collaborator on the show, WARREN CUMMINGS, has been hosting his CINEMATIC SAUSAGE podcast all about classic movies for the past couple of years, and the thought struck me recently that an enormous amount of the kind of films that he and I both find we enjoy aren’t from the sort of time when we would have been able to see them at the cinema, so the only reason that young whippersnappers like us could possibly have come to know that such movies even existed was because they used to turn up on the telly and we would find ourselves drawn to them, whether it was on long wet summer holiday and weekend afternoons, or in those rather special seasons that used to turn up occasionally, and usually at a time when the news was the only other choice of viewing.

So our young minds would be exposed to extensive seasons of early evening Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce SHERLOCK HOLMES films, or SCIENCE-FICTION CLASSICS, or GOLDEN TURKEYS and late night HORRORS, and our interests would be shaped by these, alongside the afternoon WEEPIES, COMEDIES, or those stone-cold classics – often WAR FILMS - that tended to cling doggedly to BANK HOLIDAY weekends and become instant traditions in many households.

Anyway, WARREN is here to talk about all of those things, as we reminisce about the kind of films we enjoy, and how we first found them, and I hope you enjoy what he had to say as much as I did.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.