Brett & Cliff's Flea Circus: A movie and TV podcast

Brett picks a disturbing hoax documentary from 1977 that convicted viewers the world was going to end. It's soundtracked by Brian Eno and stars someone from Allo Allo and a Thunderbird.

There's also …

Allo Allo was a British sitcom that was always on in Brett and Cliff's family homes growing up. Nazis, the French resistance, stowaway airmen, saucy waitresses and stolen paintings go into the pot of…

Brett picks Sherlock Holmes, one of his favourite things, and we watch Jeremy Brett's version of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective. The Speckled Band includes gypsies, a baboon and a remarkable feat of …

The 2008 movie Lake Mungo is considered one of the scariest of all time. The documentary-style tale of a missing/dead teenager is way ahead of the curve. That the director Joel Anderson has seemingly…

We're joined by former Empire editor Mark Dinning to discuss the scariest movie he's ever seen - 1980's The Changeling. The George C. Scott haunted house movie is something of a lost classic and a fa…

We revisit 1990s TV classic Gladiators, taking in Wolf's growl, Hawk's smile and Jet's intelligence. There's also a quiz about facts, a steak thief and more

Music comes from The Rah's. You can find m…

In this episode we tackle one of Brett's favourites, Dr Terror's House of Horrors. There's some football talk, an Andrea Bocelli anecdote and music from Northern Revelation. You can find more out abo…

As everyone's in Euro fever, we decided to look back at a defining part of our youth, Euro 96 when England came so close to doing it...

There's ice cream talk, sauce sandwiches and a couple of footie …

Brett introduced Cliff to Dylan when they were 15, and Cliff didn't like him. Years later he's pretty much a completist, so forced Brett to listen to his weird-ish, poorly received 18th album, 1978's…

Brett picks Slade in Flame starring one of his favourite bands. The gritty drama follows Noddy Holder, Jim Lea, Don Powell and Dave Hill as the band Flame and it charts their rise to fame and the pre…

Cliff chooses this 1970 movie starring Jane Asher as a young swimming baths attendant who toys with the emotions of a young admirer who works with her. Mike ends up taking his admiration of Asher's S…

Brett suggests this little-known British horror from 1972. Death Line, also known as Raw Meat in the US, stars Donald Pleasance as an inspector looking into the disappearance of a high-ranking UK off…

Founder of the Lost Map record label Johnny Lynch tells us about his love for Reeves & Mortimer and how influential they've been in his career performing as Pictish Trail. We run through his top five…

This week's episode takes us to space, the final frontier in fact, with one of Brett's favourite lockdown shows. The episode in question is a controversial one, Star Trek: The Next Generation's Consp…

The low-budget gorefest to beat them all, Evil Dead was released in 1981 after around three years of work following Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Rob Tapert graduated from college. We check into the …

We go back to 1985 to check in on Marty McFly and Doc Brown, as they go even further back to 1955. Cliff's favourite film is full of classic scenes, lines and character (and cars).

There's a rap quiz…

Brett picks Eddie Murphy's breakout movie Beverly Hills Cop for this weeks episode. The 1984 classic set the blueprint for the rest of the decade's comedy-action films and stuck in Brett's brainbox f…

Following Sometime in New York City, John Lennon returned to a more personal, love-song based approach for 1973's Mind Games. Written and recorded just as he and Yoko were making decisions about thei…

We revisit The Beatles' second feature film Help! with special guest Luke Williamson, singer in The Mariners. There's an 80s advert quiz and Luke introduces his band's new single Jennifer.

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