Made in England

Mar 23 2025 24 ep. 61 mins 21

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Delving into the history of English cinema, one film at a time. Hosted by Jack McInroy.

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Victim (1961) with John Airlie

Mar 23 2025 51 mins

Dirk Bogarde stars as Melville Farr, a barrister targeted by blackmailers, in noir thriller Victim (1961). Made at a time when it was illegal to be gay, Victim challenged the British film censors with an empathetic depiction of London’s gay community, and is the first film to use the word ‘homosexual’. John Airlie, Associate Lecturer in Film and Media at Birkbeck College, U

A Canterbury Tale (1944) with Dan Kois

Mar 11 2025 53 mins

In wartime England, three modern day pilgrims - a melancholy ‘land girl’, a plainspoken American GI, and a resourceful British sergeant - are waylaid in the English countryside where they have to solve a bizarre local mystery before going on to Canterbury to get the blessings they seek, in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s A Canterbury Tale (1944). Writer, journalist

Rye Lane (2023) with Corrina Antrobus

Jan 20 2025 44 mins

Two young lovers, reeling from recent breakups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London, in the award-winning romantic comedy, Rye Lane (2023). Corrina Antrobus, author of I Love Romcoms and I Am A Feminist, joins to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Corrina Antrobus Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in

Bronson (2008) with Joe Greenwood

Jan 01 2025 55 mins

Tom Hardy plays Britain’s most notorious prisoner in Nicolas Winding Refn’s English language breakthrough film, Bronson (2008). Joe Greenwood, host of 10TB Hard Drive podcast, joins to discuss the film, and Refn’s career. Listen to 10TB Hard Drive on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Acast. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Joe Greenwood Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featur

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) with Jonathan Lethem

Dec 18 2024 77 mins

When his wife admits to having fantasies about another man, Dr Bill Harford becomes obsessively jealous and finds himself on a psychosexual odyssey through an erotic underworld in Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kubrick cast married couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and recreated New York City on a Pinewood studios backlot in the longest shoot in film histo

Maurice (1987) with Stephen Soucy

Nov 20 2024 55 mins

After the Oscar success of A Room With A View, Merchant-Ivory followed up with another E.M. Forster adaptation, Maurice (1987). Maurice Hall (James Wilby) comes to terms with his sexuality in repressed Edwardian England, embarking on affairs with the aristocratic Clive Durham (Hugh Grant making his feature debut) and working class gamekeeper Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves). Directed a

Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001) with Hugo Greenhalgh

Oct 30 2024 62 mins

Ricky Tomlinson plays the first football manager from the lower leagues to get the England job in Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001). Lapsed football journalist Hugo Greenhalgh joins to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Hugo Greenhalgh Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list

The Rebel (1961) with Michael Cumming

Oct 02 2024 43 mins

After the radio and television success of Hancock’s Half Hour, Tony Hancock made his big screen debut with The Rebel (1961), playing a bored office clerk who trades the City of London for the Paris art scene. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, directed by Robert Day. Director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye, Toast of London) joins to discuss the film. Michael will be on tour wi

Excalibur (1981) with David and Nathan Zellner

Sep 23 2024 46 mins

John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981) is an epic retelling of the King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table myth with plenty of sex, violence and sumptuous visuals. Filmmaking duo David and Nathan Zellner, whose movies include Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) and Sasquatch Sunet (2024), join to discuss the film. Bonus chat with the Zellner brothers about directing Showtime�

Yesterday (2019) with Stephen Graham

Sep 08 2024 125 mins

What if you woke up one day and nobody in the world could remember the Beatles except you? That is the premise of Yesterday (2019), the film that united two of British cinema’s biggest names, director Danny Boyle’s and screenwriter Richard Curtis. With the Fab Four’s entire songbook at his disposal, can struggling singer-songwriter Jack Malick finally make it big? Stephen G