Radio 1's Screen Time

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Join Radio 1’s resident film buff Ali Plumb for movie news, reviews and extra behind-the-screens fun.

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Naomi Ackie Story So Far Interview Special

Mar 07 2025 16 mins

Star of Bong Joon-ho's latest, Mickey 17, Naomi Ackie is in conversation with Ali. They cover loads: her career so far, including Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (& some memorobilia she may have been given!), also the Whitney Houston biopic I Want To Dance With Somebody and more. Also, stick around until the very end for some big news from our Ali!

From The Archives: Florence Pugh’s Movies That Made Me

Feb 27 2025 32 mins

We're dipping into the back catalogue for this episode of Screen Time, and we time travel back to 2023 to hear Florence Pugh talk to our Ali about her career so far whilst she was in town talking about her (then) latest film, 'A Good Person'. Since then she’s been in 'Oppenheimer' and - if you listen to this interview - was up for being in Paddington 3. But then in the end, wasn'

Phil Dunster Interview Special

Feb 20 2025 19 mins

Ted Lasso veteran and star of the new series of 'Surface', Phil Dunster, joins Ali for a chat about all sorts of happy nonsense this week. Including Reading’s best bits (the place, not the thing you do with words). There's also chat about YouTube rabbit holes and the times people have accidentally called Phil “Jamie Tartt” and not, you know, his actual name. There’s also so

Captain America: Brave New World Interviews!

Feb 14 2025 22 mins

Ali talks to the cast of Captain America: Brave New World! So find out what Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford & Danny Ramirez have to say for themselves!

Awards Interview Special!

Feb 06 2025 35 mins

It's awards season, so here are some awardsy conversations with awards-worthy people! That's Adrien Brody on 'The Brutalist' in the first half, and then Sean Baker and Mikey Madison on 'Anora'. 'The Brutalist' is, at long last - with emphasis on the word "long" - in cinemas here in the UK, while 'Anora' is available on digital download (the film first came out in November last year

Ariana Grande ‘Becoming… Glinda’ Wicked Interview Special!

Jan 31 2025 28 mins

Wicked has been, it’s fair to say, a bit of a hit. Filling up cinemas up and down the country (and across the globe), it’s undeniably a very big deal - and now it’s getting BAFTA and Oscar nominations even whilst it’s still in theatres, including one for Ariana Grande, Glinda herself. The very same Ariana Grande was kind enough to stop by BBC Radio 1 HQ recently for an in-d

The Best Films Of 2024 and Screen Time's Big 2025 Movie Preview!

Jan 24 2025 45 mins

Just in the nick of time - as January finally decides to pack up its things and go home - friends of the podcast Clarisse Loughrey (of The Independent's Chief Film Critic Fame) and Ian Sandwell (Digital Spy's Movie Expert) stop by once again to talk to Ali about those motion picture films you've been hearing so much about. Things start with a review of films worth checking out that

2025 TV Preview Special - plus Timothée Chalamet and Edward Norton on A Complete Unknown!

Jan 17 2025 49 mins

Friend of the show and TV expert Scott Bryan stops by for his annual "review of the year before, preview of the year to come" special, touching on loads of shows worth watching (or rewatching) in the near future. Then, as a bonus of bonuses, Timothée Chalamet and Edward Norton appear to talk about their new Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, which just so happens to have earned

Colman Domingo Sing Sing Interview Special

Jan 10 2025 25 mins

Colman Domingo is an incredible actor and his new film, Sing Sing, is incredible in of itself, telling as it does the real-life story of the thatre group in New York’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility, incorporating real-life people who went through what you see on screen, acting as versions of themselves. It’s a special film and if it’s passed you by, this interview will make

Nick Frost Get Away Interview Special!

Jan 03 2025 33 mins

Star of Spaced, the Cornetto Trilogy, Paul, Tintin, Cuban Fury, the upcoming How To Train Your Dragon live action remake and now his own new horror comedy called Get Away (which he just so happened to write) Nick Frost is one of those human beings who likes to keep himself busy, whether it's in films or TV or writing books or cooking up a storm in his kitchen. Here as a little New