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The Bunker – News without the nonsenseJames Bond vs Bezos – Will Amazon ruin 007?‘No Prime To Die’? Amazon takes over creative control of James Bond from the Broccoli family who turned the suave spy into a movie icon. What happens now? Will Amazon simply rinse the I.P. with ever-cheesier spin-offs like Disney did with Star Wars? Is 007 still relevant in a world where real-life Bond villains run tech companies and countries? Can you still make a hero out of a heavy-drinking, womanising figure from Britain’s imperial past? Film journalist Helen O’Hara, editor-at-large of Empire magazine and host of the Empire Film podcast joins Andrew Harrison to look at Bond’s future.2025-02-2634 min
The Movie Mavericks PodcastPodcast EP 407: Bond defects to Amazon, Shatner Beams Up Again, Constantine 2 News, The Accountant 2, Freaky Tales, G20 TrailersTrivial Trivia:
Which actor has starred alongside Helen Mirren, Rita Moreno, Dame Judi Dench?
Tom Cruise, Vin Diesel, Brad Pitt, Dwayne Johnson
Debate/Conversation Topic:
Amazon gains creative control of James Bond
Rob Liefeld vs Kevin Fiege heats up
William Shatner up to reprise Capt. Kirk for Star Trek
Streaming Online Pick of the Week:
The Gorge
Trailer Addict:
The Accountant 2
Freaky Tales
G20
2025-02-2556 min
The Empire Film PodcastTatiana Maslany, Stephen King Adaptations, And What's Up With Bond?After the guestapaloozas of recent weeks, we're back to just one guest on this week's Empire Podcast. But what a guest it is, as the great Tatiana Maslany, star of the new Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, pops up on Zoom to talk with Chris Hewitt about death and Comedy Bang Bang. [25:00 - 43:07 approx] In the podbooth, Chris is joined by Helen O'Hara and James Dyer to discuss their favourite Stephen King movies, review The Monkey, The Order, and I'm Still Here, while the movie news section is rudely interrupted by some actual movie news, prompting a deep dive...2025-02-211h 35
Travel Writers RadioHelen Hayes Previews Amazing Ski Lift Technology at Switzerland's Iconic JungfrauHelen Hayes has been away during our simmer break here on Travel Writers Radio. She visited Switzerland home to some of the world’s most iconic mountain-scapes. While there she interviewed Alan Ramsey who used to work in Paris but went towork Switzerland for one ski season…that was 34 years ago, he;s still there, and the rest, as they say is history. Helen gets a preview of an exciting three-part technology upgrade to the ski transportation facilities that include an 85 passenger gondola and a few years away is a 100 passenger gondola. All sited with the magnificent backdrop of three icon...2025-01-2921 min
Crime Time FMKIM SHERWOOD In Person With PaulKIM SHERWOOD chats to Paul Burke about A SPY LIKE ME, Double or Nothing, Ian Fleming, the Double 'O' series, loving Bond and living the dream, George Baker.A SPY LIKE MESix days.A bomb goes off at the BBC. But this is just the beginning. In six days' time, terrorists will strike again.Three agents.With James Bond captured, three of MI6's toughest Double O agents race from Venice to Afghanistan to Dubai to stop the terror.One chance to find James Bond.2025-01-211h 03
The Protestant Libertarian PodcastEp 176: The Gospels and Ancient Media with Rafael RodriguezIn this episode I talk with Dr. Rafael Rodriguez, who teaches New Testament at Pittsburg Theological Seminary. We discuss his chapter in The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus (out now on Eerdmans), where he explains what ancient media tells us about the historical Jesus. While our primary sources are the gospels as written texts, in antiquity these were not the only ways in which people were exposed to Jesus. Dr. Rodriguez explains the nature of oral tradition, and what we can know about the period between the life of Jesus and the composition of the gospels. He explains...2025-01-141h 08The Protestant Libertarian PodcastEp 175: Why We Can’t ‘Get Behind’ the Gospels with Chris KeithIn this episode I talk with Dr. Chris Keith, research professor of New Testament and early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society. He is the co-editor of The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus, out now on Eerdmans press, and he contributes a chapter to the volume entitled ‘Beyond What is Behind’. In this chapter he proposes that historical Jesus research needs to move beyond the idea that we can somehow ‘get behind’ the texts of the gospels and find unvarnished, uninterpreted historical information about Jesus. He discusses the rich legacy of form criticism, influenced by legen...2025-01-071h 02The Protestant Libertarian PodcastEp 173: The Jewishness of Jesus with Adele ReinhartzIn this episode I talk with Dr. Adele Reinhartz, professor of religious studies at the University of Ottawa in Canada. She contributed a chapter to The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus (out now on Eerdmans press) where entitled ‘Beyond the Jewish Jesus Debate’, in which she argues that historical Jesus researchers (and everyone else!) simply must take the Jewish identity of Jesus for granted. She explains why Biblical interpreters throughout the ages have either ignored or downplayed the Jewishness of Jesus and the negative impact that has had on our interpretation of him. We then explore how Jesus’s matr...2024-12-3156 minThe Protestant Libertarian PodcastEp 169: The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus with James CrossleyIn this episode I talk with Dr. James Crossley, who teaches at Cambridge in England and MF Oslo in Norway. He explains the goals of the ‘Next Quest’ for the historical Jesus, which is an attempt to outline the next phase of historical Jesus research. He contributes the opening article in the new book The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus, out now on Eerdmans, where he outlines the goals of the Next Quest. He discusses his frustrations with historical Jesus research over the last several years and the problems with previous attempts to reconstruct Jesus. Instead of attempting to f...2024-12-101h 05
In ConversationIn Conversation: World War II Espionage And How it Influenced Cold War Spy Novelists Including Ian Fleming, John Le Carré, and Helen MacInnes.Professor of English Oliver Buckton joins Dean Michael Horswell in our latest edition of In Conversation to discuss his research on World War II espionage and his new book Counterfeit Spies: How World War II Intelligence Operations Shaped Cold War Spy Fiction (2024).Oliver Buckton is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University, and has taught at FAU since 1994. He teaches courses in Victorian and modern British literature, film, literary theory, and espionage fiction. His recent research explores the intersections of intelligence history, political history, and espionage fiction. He is the a...2024-12-0944 min
In ConversationIn Conversation: World War II Espionage And How it Influenced Cold War Spy Novelists Including Ian Fleming, John Le Carré, and Helen MacInnes.Professor of English Oliver Buckton joins Dean Michael Horswell in our latest edition of In Conversation to discuss his research on World War II espionage and his new book Counterfeit Spies: How World War II Intelligence Operations Shaped Cold War Spy Fiction (2024).Oliver Buckton is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University, and has taught at FAU since 1994. He teaches courses in Victorian and modern British literature, film, literary theory, and espionage fiction. His recent research explores the intersections of intelligence history, political history, and espionage fiction. He is the author of S...2024-12-0601 minThe Protestant Libertarian PodcastEp 167: The Gospels as Biography with Helen BondIn this episode I talk with Dr. Helen Bond, professor of Christian Origins and New Testament at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and cohost of the Biblical Time Machine podcast. She has a chapter in the new book The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus, out now on Eerdmans, where she argues that the gospels need to be understood as an expression of ancient Greek biography. Dr. Bond explains how ancient biography works as a genre, that the goals of ancient biography are to recount the life of a great person so that others can imitate them, and...2024-12-0354 minThe Empire Film Podcast#609 — Sydney Sweeney, David Dastmalchian, Ernie HudsonHalloween isn't for another few months, but this week's Empire Podcast delivers a hat-trick of horrors nonetheless, as Chris Hewitt has spooky sitdowns on Zoom with the stars of three scary fillums that are all out this week. First, Sydney Sweeney, star and producer of nun-more-black horror, Immaculate, talks about sticking the landing and possession. [21:24 - 37:37 approx] Then, David Dastmalchian, star of stylish found footage shocker, Late Night With The Devil, dials in from his trailer in Toronto, where he's currently working, to talk that movie, The Dark Knight, life goals, Ant-Man And The Wasp and more. [55:16 - 1:15:44 approx...2024-03-221h 55
BRIDGING THEOLOGYS3E2 Stefana Dan Laing: Retrieving History - Memory and Identity Formation in the Early ChurchCo-hosts Kevin Hill and Claudia Herrera-Montero speak with Stefana Dan Laing about her new book, Retrieving History - Memory and Identity Formation in the Early Church (Baker 2017). Stefana Dan Laing is Associate Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School.
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Season 3 of the Bridging Theology Podcast is sponsored by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. With a history spanning over 100 years, Eerdmans publishes the finest literature in theology, biblical studies, and religious history, and popular titles in spirituality, ministry, and cultural criticism. Upcoming releases in 2024 include works from scholars such as Amy Peeler, Clifton Black, Helen B...2024-03-191h 12
My Dad's CarHelen Stanley: James Bond, Noel Gallagher, 405 Mi16, BMW E36, and the latest online car buying experience S3E9Send us a textJon and Andy welcome Helen Stanley to My Dad's car this week. She may be familar to some of you having graced our TV screens on Goblin Works Garage and Motor Pickers to name but a few. These day's Helen is working as an artist - check out her pop art here: helenstanleyofficial.comHelen also hosts a podcast with her cousin, called Cars of the Macabre - take a listen in all the usual places. Discussion on her own car influence starts with toys, and then builds into a l...2024-03-1232 min