Made in England

Ralph Fiennes plays Dennis Cleg, a schizophrenic who moves into a halfway house where he remembers and relives the traumas of his 1950s childhood, in David Cronenberg’s Spider (2002).
Violet Lucca, author of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials, joins to discuss the film. Find Violet on Substack, Twitter and Instagram.
Host: Jack McInroy
Guest: Violet Lucca
Theme music: Harlow Family Group
Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/
Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf
https://www.holdfastnetwork.com/madeinengland

Breaking Glass (1980) follows new wave singer Kate (Hazel O’Connor) as she rises from the gritty punk scene to pop stardom. Flanked by aspiring manager Danny (Phil Daniels), she tries to hold on to her ideals (and her sanity) as she navigates the perils of the music industry.
Music journalist Wesley Doyle joins to discuss the film. His new book Spellbound A Gothic Rock Compendium is published by Ruffian Books.
https://wesleydoylewrites.substack.com/
Host: Jack McInroy
Guest: Wesley Doyle
Theme music: Harlow Family Group
Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/
Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf

Anthony Newley stars as a nightclub compere who has just a few hours to raise £300 to pay a gambling debt or face the violent consequences in The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963).
Writer and journalist Darren Richman joins to discuss the film.
Host: Jack McInroy
Guest: Darren Richman
Theme music: Harlow Family Group
Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/
Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf

Decades after the outbreak of the rage virus, the UK is quarantined from the rest of Europe and overrun with zombie-like Infected (and worse) in... 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026).
Writer Alex Garland and director Danny Boyle started the series in 2002 with 28 Days Later and returned in 2025 for 28 Years Later, which starred Alfie Williams as Spike, a teenager coming of age in post-apocalyptic Britain, and Ralph Fiennes as doctor-turned-mortician Dr Kelson. Nia Da Costa takes over the reins for the second part of a planned new trilogy, and Jack O’Connell joins the cast as Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal.
Tom Allen joins to discuss the film.
(02:40) 28 Days Later
(09:38) 28 Weeks Later
(17:25) 2012 Olympics opening ceremony
(30:13) 28 Years Later
(1:07:10) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Host: Jack McInroy
Guest: Tom Allen
Theme music: Harlow Family Group
Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/

Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf

The Dashwood sisters find their prospects of marriage suddenly diminished by their family loss of fortune, in Emma Thompson’s adaptation of Sense and Sensibility (1995). Thompson won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and is also part of the stellar cast, which includes Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant and Hugh Laurie. Ang Lee directed what is widely considered to be among the very best Jane Austen adaptations.
Writer and illustrator Lizzy Stewart joins to discuss the film. Lizzy is the author of Alison and There’s a Tiger in the Garden which won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and a World Illustration Award. Her new book, The Wreck, is available now from Jonathan Cape.
Host: Jack McInroy
Guest: Lizzy Stewart
Theme music: Harlow Family Group
Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/
Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf
https://www.holdfastnetwork.com/madeinengland