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 Graham, musicologist based at Goldsmiths and author of Becoming Noise Music, joins to discuss the film.

Host: Jack McInroy

Guest: Stephen Graham

Theme music: Harlow Family Group

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The Elephant Man (1980) tells the story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a severely deformed man in Victorian-era London, saved from a freak show and brought into the care of Dr Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) at the London Hospital. The film was nominated for eight Oscars. Directed by David Lynch following his debut film Eraserhead, The Elephant Man is sometimes seen as an outlier in his career, but there are themes and motifs that appear throughout Lynch’s filmography.

Screenwriter and journalist Jeff Jensen joins to discuss the film. Jeff wrote on the HBO series Watchmen, Disney’s Tomorrowland, and the Eisner-winning graphic novel, Green River Killer, as well as co-hosting Entertainment Weekly’s Twin Peaks podcast.

Host: Jack McInroy

Guest: Jeff Jensen

Theme music: Harlow Family Group

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Vivian Stanshall returned Rawlinson End, his influential comedy opus, throughout his career, first recording it as a BBC radio series in 1975, then as a record in 1978. The 1980 film adaptation, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, stars Trevor Howard as the titular Sir Henry, an eccentric custodian of a crumbling British country estate who is trying to exorcise the trouserless ghost of his brother.

S.J. Harris, author of the graphic novel Eustace, joins to discuss the film.

Host: Jack McInroy

Guest: S.J. Harris

Theme music: Harlow Family Group

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