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Excellent Adventures: The Time Travel Movie Podcast

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Join Ellen, James and Paul as we chat about time travel movies and why we love them! Ellen Cheshire has a BA (Hons) in Film and English and a MA in Gothic Studies and has taught Film at Undergraduate and A Level. She has published books on Ang Lee, Jane Campion, Bio-Pics, Sussex on Film, Audrey Hepburn and The Coen Brothers and contributed chapters to books on Silent Fil, UK Counterculture, James Bond and Charlie Chaplin. She is one of the writing team for the new A Level WJEC Film Text Book. She is a frequent contributor to BFI’s home entertainment releases and has written for Sight & Sound,...

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09: Orion & the Dark (2024): A Mini Excellent Adventure 19.04.2024 4:45

A solo adventure for James, enjoying the penmanship of Chalie Kaufman for this Dreamworks Animation movie, with a Time Travel twist.

08: Groundhog Day: The Musical - A Mini Excellent Adventure 12.04.2024 7:10

Adventurers Ellen & Paul take in the show in London, giggling at the tomfoolery & gasping at the stage tricks for Phil Connors living his day over & over. Posted in advance of The Olivier Awards, for which it was Nominated for Best Musical Revival.

07: Somewhere in Time (1980) - An Excellent Adventure 04.04.2024 1:21:27

The Adventurers explore Time Travel by hypnosis - aka staring into Christopher Reeves' eyes while John Barry's romantic score plays. Join them on a trip to the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, where the power of love gets everyone all misty eyed.

06: 12:01 (1993) - A Mini Excellent Adventure with Guest - Author Paul Indigo 15.03.2024 34:56

A special chat between Host Paul Tonks & guest - author Paul Indigo ("Love Deleted"), about the 1993 TV movie 12:01, starring Jonathan Silverman, Helen Slater, Jeremy Piven & Martin Landau. Recorded on a very relevant day, the chat inevitably turns to the chicken & egg of who can say they had their Time Loop/ Bounce first...? Paul Indigo's website

05: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023) - An Excellent Adventure 01.03.2024 12:58

The Ark of the Covenant, The Sankara Stones, The Holy Grail, The Crystal Skulls, & now Archimede's Dial. Do the Excellent Adventurers think it's time for Indy to hang up his hat? What is teh end result of him spending a life digging into the past?

04: The Time Machine - A Comedy (Play) - A Mini Excellent Adventure 16.02.2024 6:12

Ellen & Paul get all audience-participatory at the Park Theatre in London. Where is the past? Behind you! What they said: "HG Wells’ comic deadly serious masterpiece will never be the same again as this hapless highly skilled group of actors embark on a journey of a lifetime!"

03: Groundhog Day (1993) - An Excellent Adventure 02.02.2024 1:07:41

The Adventurers laff it up at the one we'd all love to have a go at: eating & mucking about day after day with no consequences. Apart from endlessly meeting Ned Ryerson that is...

02: The Time Machine (1960) - An Excellent Adventure 27.01.2024 52:09

The Adventurers enjoy chatting about George Pal & his inestimable contribution to the Time Travel genre.

01: An Introductory Episode: Your Hosts Talking Time Travel Twaddle 27.01.2024 37:40

Who are they? Why are they? And the appropriate question: when the Hell are they? Ellen Cheshire, James Clarke & Paul Tonks. These three great gentlefolk are dedicated to a proposition that has stayed true throughout time; watch excellent movies, then party on chatting about them. This is a simple turn-the-mike-on & see what happens introduction.