Made in England

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
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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
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Tom Cruise is forced to live, die, repeat in the sci-fi action thriller Edge of Tomorrow (2014). Adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s light novel All You Need Is Kill, the film was directed by Doug Liman from a script by Jez and John Henry Butterworth and regular Cruise collaborator Christopher McQuarrie.
Journalist Drew Taylor and filmmaker Charles Hood, who together are Light the Fuse: the official Mission Impossible podcast, join to discuss the film.
Host: Jack McInroy
Guest: Drew Taylor and Charles Hood
Theme music: Harlow Family Group
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Richard Widmark stars as Harry Fabian, a conman trying to rustle up a few quid to break into wrestling promotion, in Night and the City (1950). Based on Gerald Kersh’s novel of the London underworld, the film was made in England with American money, produced by Twentieth Century Fox and directed by the blacklisted Jules Dassin. Night and the City is atmospheric, exciting and gritty, and according to my guest, ‘may well be the definitive noir film’.
Film historian Foster Hirsch joins to discuss the film. Foster is the author of many books, including The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir and Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties.
Host: Jack McInroy
Guest: Foster Hirsch
Theme music: Harlow Family Group
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Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) stars Derek Jacobi in the title role and Daniel Craig as George Dyer, Bacon’s lover and muse. Directed by John Maybury.
Writer, historian and broadcaster Sir Christopher Frayling joins to discuss the film. Christopher’s latest book, The Hollywood History of Art, which features this film, is available now from reelartpress.com.
Host: Jack McInroy
Guest: Christopher Frayling
Theme music: Harlow Family Group
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