Only A Podcast ElTele & The Captain

In an opening aside, The Captain curses wireless technology. Just use wires, folks. After all these years, ElTele learns how to run.But the main theme for the end of year episode is: we list our best film, TV series, documentary, book, event, album and podcast of the year (spoiler: we don’t choose our own). If we’d like anything for Christmas, it’s that you like, subscribe, favourite, rate or share this podcast. Oh, and world peace too.Meri Kirihimete to you all.No links, no spoiler...

In our penultimate episode of 2023, we review a live concert by a legendary band, and a new album from an old stager. Spy drama Slow Horses returns. The Captain is drawn in to animated martial arts series Blue Eye Samurai, and is hanging out for the gripping final episode of NZ drama After the Party.ElTele discusses the loss of Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, and the large number of celebrities that have left us this year, and trails the brand new Kirsty MacColl box set. Have I Got News For You...

Some people might say it's time we started making sense! We've both been to see the remastered Talking Heads concert movie - hear the verdict - and we've also been impressed by the new album from Paul Cook and the Chronicles.ElTele has completed an untypical rock biography and we talk about the life of the musician who wrote it. We wrestle with the Morrissey conundrum once again, and wonder if University Challenge is getting easier.T Shirt of the Week begins (should we be even wearing T ...

Is it really the end? Did we like the final Beatles product?And what's more, did we ever think Monty Python was funny? Is comedy in some cases more about a sense of unity with like-minded fans, rather than actual laughs? We try to put these thorny issues to bed.In other news, we trail All The Light We Cannot See, the dramatisation of Anthony Doerr's acclaimed novel, and the police procedural Shetland, now up to season 8.Tommy Emmanuel will tour NZ and ElTele will be there.We're both sli...

Lots of things beginning with B in this episode, and some not!Will the upcoming release be the last "new" Beatles tune? The Captain is deep into a time shifting whodunnit on Netflix called Bodies, whilst ElTele checks out the Beckham documentary.The Captain reviews English costume drama Wicked Little Letters well in advance of next year's release, and welcomes the return of the cinema interval. Johnny Marr has a new book out, and talks about his pedals for the guitar nerds among us....

We talk about our couch potato go-to TV programmes. Guilty pleasures? We’re not guilty! ElTele checks out the Jay Blades documentary, and we both review an uncomfortable watch in The Reckoning, the four-part drama about Jimmy Savile, starring Steve Coogan.The Captain is reading a really good novel that inspired a slightly less good film, and checks out the new Rolling Stones studio album, 18 years after the last one. ElTele pops out to throw a few darts and scores a 140, and we talk...