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Is going contemporary in its choice of acts a good idea for Leeds Festival? Charles and Graham wonder what the future holds for big festivals in the UK.

Graham explores the unexpected depths of Don Henley's 1980's hit Boys of Summer.

Charles takes a look at the return of Mitchell and Webb with their new television show and wonders what they can bring to sketch comedy in 2025.

Graham takes a look at some of the anti-colonial art on show in Edinburgh during this year's Festival.

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Fresh back from the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Graham and Charles launch into a review of their film festival experience, picking out their highlights including the very high quality talks with directors such as Ben Wheatley and the legendary British film producer, Jeremy Thomas.

Plus Graham takes a look at a new film based on Richard Osman’s novel, Thursday Murder Club and Charles reports on the new musical using songs by David Gedge, The Wedding Present and Cinema, Reception.

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Graham takes a look at a classic Joan Didion essay, exploring how Joan Didion's observations in her 1983 essay Salvador - on America's involvement in the civil war in El Salvador - now apply to the mainstream of the western world.

The duo share their final thoughts on this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival before they set off for Edinburgh.

Charles takes a look at the Naked Gun film franchise revival with Liam Neeson in The Naked Gun.

Graham reflects on the strange death of the writer of 1997 cult classic film Grosse Pointe Blank starring John Cusack and Minnie Driver, Tom Jankiewicz.

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Graham gives an update on promotion around Chris Simpson and Magna Carta both with the Vinyl Sessions event in Harrogate and Chris Simpson's appearance at the Magna Carta exhibition launch in London.

Graham also reports on the artists he managed to catch at this year's Deer Shed Festival.

Charles reflects on his visit to Bradford to see the revival of Mike Kenny's adaptation of The Railway Children for Bradford 2025.

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Following last episode's interview with The Wedding Present's Dave Gedge, Charles and Graham report on seeing him live in an accoustic gig at Rise, York. Graham does the hard work reading Katja Hoyer's book about East Germany 1949-1990 and examines what it was like to live in the communist state. Both Charles and Graham take a look at Bradd pitt's new film, F1. Is it too formulaic?

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Charles and Graham welcome The Wedding Present's David Gedge to the podcast.

They talk to him about current projects and the anniversaries for classic Wedding Present albums that seem to be coming thick and fast. What keeps him motivated?

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Rotherham born, West End actress, Emma Swan is our guest, talking about her debut middle grade children's novel, Cruiseship Kid: Thief at Sea. Emma recently launched her novel at Rotherham Children's Capital of Culture - the year long celebration of culture by, with and for children. Charles and Graham follow up on last week's Gang of Four and Adam Curtis' Shifty as Graham discovers a link. The duo continue to look forward to EIFF and Graham's tribute to Chris Simpson and Magna Carta.

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It’s June and it’s Glastonbury, Graham is in clover, Charles less so. It’s also almost time for Oasis to start their comeback tour.

Meanwhile, in the real world, Graham has been to see post-punk legends Gang of Four's final hometown Leeds gig and realises they are still relevant today.

Graham follows up on last week’s streaming data report with some fascinating additional info on music acts’ Spotify figures.

Charles and Graham examine why Adam Curtis's new BBC iPlayer political documentary series Shifty is a masterpiece.

EIFF 2025 line-up will be revealed this week.

Charles reports on the new play by Chris O’Connor at Leeds Playhouse. Through it All Together, which stars Reece Dinsdale and Shobna Gulati.

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