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TNE PodcastRelationship and Sexuality Education and the WHOHugh McCarthy is a former Head Teacher and government advisor on education and curriculum development. He was one of the few senior teachers, or former teachers, in the UK to speak out against school closures during the Covid lockdown period. He was also heavily censored by social media and mainstream media for taking a stand - despite his vast experience as an educationalist in Northern Ireland (one of the best performing regions in the UK in terms of attainment at GCSE and A level). As a result of numerous requests from many parents, Hugh has now turned...2023-11-2146 min
The PrestigeTHE VIRGIN SUICIDES and Teenage MemoryThis week, as Sam returns from intensive Dadding, we start on our next director: Sofia Coppola. Our first focus is on her debut, her adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel THE VIRGIN SUICIDES. After we’re both really taken by surprise by this film, we talk about nostalgic film-making, ethereal screen presences, and what it is to remember (and mis-remember) things as a teenager.
Next Week
Our next film, and the next in Coppola’s oeuvre, is LOST IN TRANSLATION, available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Translation-Bill-Murray/dp/B00ESQGHTA.
This Week’s Media
PADDINGTON 2 (2017): Paul King, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Ha...2018-04-1632 min
Test Pattern: A Horror Movie PodcastEpisode 67: A Brutal End - The Road & It Comes At NightWe explore post-apocalyptic dystopian futures with The Road and It Comes At Night, in an episode curated by Godzilla level patron Skoll Hati! Sources for this episode: The Road (2009) "The Road Takes Desolate Journey From Page to Screen" by Hugh Hart, Wired Oprah Winfrey interview with Cormac McCarthy, June 6, 2007 It Comes At Night (2017) "Why the director of It Comes At Night hopes audiences 'don't catch on' to his technological tricks" by Tasha Robinson, The Verge "It Comes at Night's director on What to Ma...2018-04-112h 32