HitchPod - A Podcast About Alfred Hitchcock Movies

Episode 21 is rich and strange, as we discuss Hitchcock's early film Rich and Strange. We talk about the comic potential of shamelessly cheating on one's spouse while on a cruise, feline cuisine and one of the darkest endings in Hitchcock's oeuvre.

It's our twentieth episode and we're talking about Hitchcock's first version of The Man Who Knew Too Much. We see how much we know about evil dentists, annoying children and, of course, the exotic thrill of a good chair fight!

It's episode 19 and without a shadow of a doubt, we're talking Shadow of a Doubt from 1943. We discuss psychic connections, train jiu-jitsu and how feasible it is to build a house made out of newspaper

In the eighteenth episode of Hitchpod, we open up The Paradine Case from 1947. Poking around inside, we discuss hazy legal ethics, the superior quality of horseback rear projection and eventually come up with an unusual candidate for this picture's MacGuffin.

As we discuss Rebecca in Episode 17 of Hitchpod, our listeners never stop talking about a previous Alfred Hitchcock podcast that they preferred much more. Nevertheless, we still manage to talk about why Joan Fontaine is Cat's least favourite Hitchcock heroine, which other Hitchcock movie we consider to be a superior remake of this one and how skipping tennis lessons is a shortcut to getting marrie...

In Episode 16 of Hitchpod, we're accused and convicted of watching the 1930 Hitchcock film Murder! We avoid the hangman's noose only by discussing movies with exclamation marks, how easily one should be swayed by fellow members of the jury and scandalous secrets that have not aged well.

It's Episode 15 of Hitchpod, and we're talking Psycho. We all go a little mad sometimes, and that's what we've done here. We talk about toilets, inappropriate reading material for children, shower scenes, being a dreadful thief, who is the Norman Bates of Star Trek: The Next Generation and much, much more.

It's Episode 14 of HitchPod. We're talking about Foreign Correspondent from 1940, featuring losing an Oscar to yourself, the speed of wartime relationships and how to escape from a windmill.

Episode 13 of HitchPod is Saboteur. If there are any errors in the podcast, don't blame us. We're innocent. It was the work of a... SABOTEUR!

Episode 12 of HitchPod is The Wrong Man. We discuss dental problems and missing boxers and also introduce the Hitchcock Cinematic Universe.

The notorious Episode 11 is here. Most of its notoriety comes from our frank discussion of bottles of MacGuffins, Duran Duran and the outdated nature of having its villains be Nazis and people looking to make nukes. It's Notorious.

Here's episode 10! We're discussing Spellbound from 1945, talking about people with the initials JB, Daliesque dream sequences and how online quizzes are a good substitute for psychoanalysis.

We're back with episode nine. We're talking about Suspicion from 1941, discussing early incidences of negging, when Hollywood endings go astray and why the Oscar was given to the wrong actor.

We're back with episode eight and we're talking about The Birds from 1963. We discuss its similarities to a zombie film, our preferred hypothetical ending and why stalking isn't what it used to be.

We're back with our seventh episode, this time covering Juno and the Paycock from 1929 (or perhaps 1930). We try to make sense of post-World War One Irish history, discuss the logistics of fleeing countries out of shame and muse about which character belonged in the Phantom Zone.

Hello, hello (hola!). We're at a film called Vertigo. It's the Alfred Hitchcock classic from 1958, and we're discussing the size of Kim Novak's legs, the employment prospects of doppelgangers and the importance of packing a lunch when you're a murderer.

In the fifth episode, we talk about a talking picture! It's The Skin Game, from 1931. We discuss horrible families being horrible to one another, belatedly realise a character's existence and muse about the comic premise of Here Come The Habibs.

In the fourth picture we've covered, we're less concerned about The Trouble with Harry and far more concerned with the sociopathic inhabitants of a small Vermont town, why having a frog in your pants is a good move on a first date and how life becomes easier when absurdly generous millionaires pop in to help.

For our third picture, we talk about the very silent Easy Virtue from 1928 and investigate why scandals aren't what they used to be, what makes a mother-in-law really terrible and why the hell Dan can't remember Weekend At Bernie's.

For our second movie, we examine Strangers on a Train from 1951 and discuss the upsides of being anti-social, why nepotism is sometimes a good thing and the importance of carousel safety standards.

For our first movie, we discuss Rear Window from 1954 and speculate on the nature of voyeurism, whether or not a murder actually took place and what Jimmy Stewart's problem might be.