Episodios

  • Cosmos - with Nat Sharman

    Cosmos - with Nat Sharman
    Jul 16 2024
    In the penultimate episode of our first series, Team Tortoise welcomes writer, producer and director Nat Sharman to talk about possibly the biggest and most celebrated science series of all, Carl Sagan’s 1980 epic Cosmos. Along the way we chat about shitty sticks, brown corduroy jackets and whether bigger budgets are always better.

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    48 m
  • The Private Life of Plants - with Alice Jones

    The Private Life of Plants - with Alice Jones
    Jul 9 2024
    Alice Jones joins the Tortoises this time for a mid-90s nostalgia-fest. On the menu, Sir David Attenborough’s 1995 series The Private Life of Plants. Our chat takes us via Rednex and Supergrass to How 2, Countdown, filming Will Smith in a submarine and why Carol Vorderman is great. If you’re in the UK, you can watch the episode of Private Life of Plants we’re discussing here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00780vh

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    47 m
  • Prisoner of Consciousness - with Peter Leonard

    Prisoner of Consciousness - with Peter Leonard
    Jul 2 2024
    The Tortoises are back at school this week as they visit the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield. Here, head of the (Producing and Directing) Science and Natural History MA Peter Leonard talks about the film that opened his eyes to science filmmaking, the 1986 Equinox episode Prisoner of Consciousness. As well as dissecting this remarkable and affecting film, we also talk about videotape, working for Auntie and the wonders of concrete. We’re nothing if not eclectic. You can see more info about the course Peter runs here: https://nfts.co.uk/directing-and-producing-science-and-natural-history

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    51 m
  • Scrapheap Challenge - with Jess Jordan

    Scrapheap Challenge - with Jess Jordan
    Jun 25 2024
    This time, the Tortoises have stretched the baked bean tins and string as far as the banks of the River Exe in Devon as development supremo Jess Jordan celebrates Scrapheap Challenge. Amidst the nostalgia-fest, there’s chat about generating TV ideas, the current state of the TV industry, hiding science vegetables and Lisa Roger’s vagina. Should Team Tortoise move to Red Alert? It does mean changing the bulb…

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    44 m
  • Bruce Parry's Tribe - with Will Benson

    Bruce Parry's Tribe - with Will Benson
    Jun 18 2024
    Will Benson joins the Tortoises this time, to tell tales of adventure and derring-do. On the menu, the fourth episode of Bruce Parry’s 2005 series Tribe. Our adventure takes us from brain eating parasites to Indiana Jones, via gardening for Judith Hann and a possible Tortoise bromance. Question - would you take the hallucinogenic drug that Bruce Parry did? And will we ever find out why Will thought his own arm was a snake?

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    52 m
  • Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives - with Cat Gale

    Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives - with Cat Gale
    Jun 11 2024
    Music meets physics this week as the Tortoises welcome Producer/Director Cat Gale to talk about the remarkable BBC4 film Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives featuring Eels frontman Mark “E” Everett. Along the way we natter about the challenges of academia; being a working parent; why we love BBC Four; and what to do with those long lost tapes in your attic. WARNING: This is a late night recording involving three parents of young children and may contain bad language and occasional waffling.

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    56 m
  • My Year With the Tribe - with Felix Black

    My Year With the Tribe - with Felix Black
    Jun 4 2024
    This week Team Tortoise welcome Berlin-based editor Felix Black to break the fourth wall with a documentary about documentary making – the controversial BBC series My Year With The Tribe. We talk Ziggy Stardust, Suede, whistle-offs, naked music videos and naked tribespeople. Hopefully the truth will set us all free. And hopefully we’ll see you next week... unless the lawyers get to us first.

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    50 m
  • Bang Goes the Theory - with Natalie Hewit

    Bang Goes the Theory - with Natalie Hewit
    May 28 2024
    Team Tortoise welcome Nat Hewit to the studio to talk about TWO things that changed her life; podcast host Kate Dooley, and the BBC 1 popular science show Bang Goes the Theory. Before the Kate Dooley love-in gets too nauseating, we manage to discuss brewing cider, rescuing seamen, puppet Shakespeare and non-Newtonian fluids. Will Alex get a word in edgeways? Will Kate's ego deflate enough to allow her to leave the studio? Listen now to find out.

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    52 m