The Sound of The Picture House

Bumper edition with comedian, actor and writer Robin Ince, known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage with physicist Brian Cox among many other things. We go back to 1964 & 1966…

Broadcaster, author and journalist Matthew Sweet and I dip a toe into 1970's exploitation cinema of the saucy kind. Matthew gives us a fascinating and entertaining insight to what might have been goi…

Film producer and critic Catherine Bray joins me for a chat that covers event cinema, crappy trailers, the ABC Bournemouth and June 2013 when we were showing the dazzling Liberace film, Behind The Ca…

Broadcasting legend Peter Curran joins me for a meander through The Missionary and Tootsie from 1983. We also tip our hat to Withnail and I and Peter's connections with the early days of cinema in Be…

Composer, writer and presenter Neil Brand & I talk Close Encounters and Airplane as well as memories of Burgess Hill and the Odeon Brighton.

In an instant overhaul of the podcast I realise me droning on is not the most exciting, so in an effort to make things more interesting and me look good, I have drafted in some brilliant guests. This…

Welcome to the first of a weekly series of new shorter podcasts that  delves into what The Picture House Uckfield was showing this week in years gone by. This week it's April 5th 1981.

It's Christmas and I'm joined by old Saint Nick Roe to talk about Christmas movies. It goes reasonably well. Is Die Hard the best Christmas film and what do you get a Wookie for Christmas, when he al…

A somewhat dithering gallop through the year that was 2018, listing my faves and the top box office in Uckfield. 

We reach the end of the decade. 1979 a watershed year for The Picture House Uckfield, as we go from one to two screens. Whoo and also hoo!

A bumper year in the end, mainly due to John Travolta and ABBA, all before we shut down for the big two screen conversion. 

I'm joined by film and tv maker Phil Lott and we talk total nonsense about The Spy Who Loved Me, Taxi Driver and A Bridge Too Far. It's 1977 folks and why was it so tough? 

Earthquake, Jaws, Tommy, it's all here as we trawl through the mess that was 1976 at The Picture House Uckfield. I became a more thoughtful cinemagoer and Britain sweltered. 

Lots of John Williams and some Stanley Kubrick also Dogder is back as 007. Midway through the decade of decline. Such fun!

The admissions slide continues, but at least Blazing Saddles was released. 

Admissions continue to plummet and we stand on the brink of the smut tsunami coming our way. Matron. 

The Godfather, and all sorts this week as we trawl through the good stuff and the bad stuff at the movies in 1972

The second of 13 shows looking at 70's cinema through the lens of a film nut and a what it meant for a provincial small town cinema. Not quite the avant garde new wave fest you might be expecting. 

The first of 13 shows looking at 70's cinema through the lens of a film nut and a what it meant for a provincial small town cinema. Not quite the avant garde new wave fest you might be expecting. 

The time tunnel is back and dumps us in 1981.