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

Alice Lowe's directorial debut Prevenge, which she also wrote and starred in, is a masterpiece of dark comedy and horror. Great writing, performances, music and camerawork all go towards making this …

Strangeways Prison in Manchester, England, was all over the news in 1990 thanks to a 25-day riot by prisoners over conditions inside the Victorian jailhouse. Back in 1980 TV cameras went inside to fi…

To celebrate Brett's birthday we watch his favourite film, John Carpenter's The Thing, starring Kurt Russell. The 1982 horror classic was mauled by critics on release but is now regarded as one of th…

Join us for a shambolic episode full of terrible jokes. There's also chat about Westworld, Michael Crichton's 1973 sci-fi classic starring Yul Bryner, James Brolin and Richard Benjamin.

Music comes f…

A look at the revealing, pioneering fly-on-the-wall TV documentary The Impossible Dream, also known as Do I Not Like That. It focused on Graham Taylor's England reign as he tried to get the national …

Special guests galore this week as former Masterchef final four contestant Davey Hall (good Shields lad) joins us to tell us about his experiences on the show and Mrs Cliff makes an appearance for th…

A music episode this week as we discuss one of Cliff's favourite artists, Steve Mason. Brett discovers the former Beta Band singer's solo catalogue and we find a lot to discuss and admire.

Outside of…

Revisiting one of Brett's favourite movies, 2012's Dredd starring Karl Urban. Brett has some mic issues, we chat nonsense for about 45 minutes before getting onto the film.

There's also music from Fu…

A dive into Mike Hidges' 1980 sci-fi fantasy, with special guest Ian Graham (@arbroathmackem), who calls it his favourite film.

There's plenty of fun and games with a movie tagline quiz, wrist injury…

Fantasy Football League made household names Frank Skinner and David Baddiel when it aired on BBC2 on Friday nights between 1994 and 1996. The show had celeb guests from the era and combined football…

We look back at public information films shown on TV and in schools in the 1970s and 80s, designed to warn kids about the dangers of playing on farms, near electricity lines, in water and more.

The h…

We look back at a terrifying show from our youth, the Gerry Anderson co-production Terrahawks. Do we still find Zelda terrifying? Can we remember anything else about the show? Will the quiz make any …

Join us for a festive chat. We enjoyed it, hope you do. We didn't really edit it.

Music comes from the very talented Minnie Birch. Find out more at www.minnieburch.com.

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We get really festive with a full on Christmas chat before getting stuck into the classic Chevy Chase film National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

We love it and we hope you love the episode

There's a…

Things get a bit heavy as we discuss Mel Gibson and his new role as Santa Claus in Fatman.

Light relief comes in the form of some Phil Collins chat, a Christmas music quiz and the usual clarting abou…

Brett and Cliff get into the Christmas spirit by listening to I Wanna Be Santa Claus by Ringo Starr and Christmas In The Heart by Bob Dylan, and also reminisce about school Christmas parties and more…

Brett and Cliff talk look back at two childhood favorites - Bananaman and Trap Door. Do the British animations stand the test of time?

There's also some Maradona chat, a music theme tune quiz and a g…

A 2015 thriller from actor/director Joel Edgerton, starring Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall that flew under the radar.

We discuss the movie and loads more.

Music comes from North Innsbruck with Aurora…

Wizbit is a 1986 BBC kids' TV show created by magician Paul Daniels, who writes the show, appears in it, voices other characters and sings the theme tune. We used to love it but on rewatching... Our …

Late-80s TV show Midnight Caller made a star of Gary Cole and had fans in the young Brett and Cliff, who love the dirty sax theme tune, the gritty action and performances.

It makes us reminisce about…