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Rishi Nair & Daisy Coulam Episode 3, Grantchester Season 9 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - July 01, 2024 00:40 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 3 of Grantchester Season 9. Actor Rishi Nair steps into the role of Grantchester’s newest vicar, Alphy Kotteram. But this quaint Cambridgeshire village doesn’t exactly welcome him with open arms. Will Alphy find his place in Grantches...

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Tom Brittney Says Farewell, Grantchester Season 9 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - June 24, 2024 00:40 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Grantchester Season 9. Tom Brittney has been a multi-hyphenate on Grantchester: lead actor, director, and executive producer. For the past five seasons, we’ve watched his character, Will Davenport, transform from rash youth to family man. Thi...

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Gwyneth Hughes, Episode 4, Mr Bates vs The Post Office | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - April 29, 2024 00:40 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Mr Bates vs The Post Office writer Gwyneth Hughes joins the podcast again to continue our conversation about this real-life scandal, and what lessons we can take away from one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history.

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Andrea Riseborough, Alice & Jack | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - April 22, 2024 01:40 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Alice & Jack. For lead actor and executive producer Andrea Riseborough, love can look like many things. From confusion and estrangement to laughter and awkwardness, love is always beyond our control. This week, Andrea brings us inside the min...

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EP.34 - Transformers (Skybound) #4-6 (part 2 of 2)

AARGH! MY OPTICS! - April 21, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour
Welcome to a very special CROSSOVER episode of AARGH! MY OPTICS! Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia are joined by Galactosh and Sleeves (also know as Orion Ghia, I know its confusing but deal with it!) from comics podcast We're Got Back Issues, plus special guest host Michael Quintesson to chat about t...

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Aisling Bea, Alice & Jack | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - April 15, 2024 01:40 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for episode 5 of Alice & Jack Actor Aisling Bea delights in bringing nuance to her characters and finding the humor in dramatic roles. This week, Aisling joins us to discuss playing Jack’s dynamic and resilient ex-wife Lynn in Alice & Jack, and h...

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Gwyneth Hughes, Mr Bates vs The Post Office | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - April 08, 2024 00:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
For writer Gwyneth Hughes, Mr Bates vs The Post Office is the perfect culmination of her years of experience as a journalist, documentarian, and dramatist. This week, Gwyneth joins us to discuss how she adapted this true story for the screen, and the real-life impact of this drama serie...

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Helena Bonham Carter, Nolly | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - April 01, 2024 00:40 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Nolly. Actor Helena Bonham Carter enjoys playing complex, dynamic roles. From Princess Margaret to Bellatrix Lestrange, she never shies away from complicated characters. This week, we talked with Helena about playing the trailblazing Noele Go...

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Blair Mowat, Nolly | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - March 25, 2024 00:40 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Nolly. Composer Blair Mowat has written music for a long list of film and TV productions, including Class, After The Flood, and recently, Russell T. Davies’ bittersweet love letter to the Queen of the Midlands, Nolly. This week, we talked wit...

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Victor Levin, Alice & Jack | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - March 18, 2024 01:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 1 of Alice & Jack. For Alice & Jack writer and creator Victor Levin, love is a messy business worth fighting for. It often bypasses the rules of reason and logic and throws all kinds of emotional curve balls. But in the end, it’s the ...

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EP.33 - Transformers Robots in Disguise

AARGH! MY OPTICS! - March 11, 2024 00:00 - 2 hours
[DISCUSSION] WE'RE BACK! After eleven months off and some deliberation over a topic Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia return to the podwaves to discuss a firm favourite of theirs.. Transformers Robots in Disguise! No not that one! Or that one! No the first one the one from 2001 the one that Hasbro ess...

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Stuart Martin Says Goodbye, Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - February 29, 2024 16:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains significant spoilers for Season 4 of Miss Scarlet and The Duke. For four seasons, we’ve watched Eliza Scarlet and William Wellington work together to solve a seemingly endless stream of serpentine mysteries in Victorian era London. But by the fourth episo...

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Wartime Rations and Black Markets, All Creatures Great and Small Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - February 26, 2024 01:40 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Dr. Mark Roodhouse, historical consultant for All Creatures Great & Small, and lecturer in History at the University of York, joins us to discuss his role on the show, and the real-life history behind rationing and black markets in World War II-era Britain. 

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Nicholas Ralph, All Creatures Great and Small Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - February 19, 2024 01:40 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 7 of All Creatures Great and Small Season 4.  Lead actor Nicholas Ralph returns to the podcast to reflect on Season Four of All Creatures Great and Small, and how his character, James Herriot, learned to embrace the ever-present uncer...

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Rachael New & Ben Edwards, Episode 6 Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - February 12, 2024 00:40 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 6 of Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4.  Writers Rachael New and Ben Edwards are back to wrap up Season Four of Miss Scarlet and The Duke. At the end of this season, Eliza steps out of the shadows cast by her father, Nash, and the Du...

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James Anthony-Rose, All Creatures Great and Small Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - February 05, 2024 01:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 5 of All Creatures Great and Small Season 4.  Actor James Anthony-Rose joins All Creatures Great and Small this season as new veterinarian Richard Carmody. With Tristan away and James leaving for military training, there’s a lot of pr...

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Stuart Martin, Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - January 29, 2024 00:40 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 4 of Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4. It’s been a trying season for actor Stuart Martin’s ‘Duke’. He’s been pushed past the point of exhaustion, shot in the arm, in a coma, and now contends with rest and recovery. But as we see a m...

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Rachael New & Ben Edwards, Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - January 22, 2024 00:40 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 3 of Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4.  In episode 3 of Miss Scarlet and The Duke, writers and spouses Rachael New and Ben Edwards try something new: a flashback episode. We travel back in time to the world of young Eliza and Willia...

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Neve McIntosh, All Creatures Great and Small Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - January 15, 2024 01:40 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 2 of All Creatures Great and Small Season 4. Actor Neve McIntosh joins All Creatures Great and Small this season as the organized and rigid Miss Harbottle. Bringing order to chaos is her speciality, and that’s what she plans to do at ...

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Jamie Crichton, All Creatures Great and Small Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - January 08, 2024 01:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 1 of All Creatures Great and Small Season 4. New beginnings are afoot as Jamie Crichton takes over as lead writer for the fourth season of All Creatures Great and Small. With Tristan away and the war encroaching, things aren’t quite t...

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EP.32 - Top Of The Bots 2023!

AARGH! MY OPTICS! - December 25, 2023 00:00 - 2 hours
[TOTB/DISCUSSION] Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! What's this in the toe of you Christmas stocking? Why it's the third annual AARGH! MY OPTICS! Top Of The Bots Podcast! As is customary this time of year Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia get together IN REAL LIFE and discuss the previous year.. D...

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PLAYOFFS! Beau's Holiday Depression, Pregame Rap Battles, and Drawing French Girls

KC Fantasy Masterpiece Podcast - December 14, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Keeper Check In Playoff Matchups and Predictions

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Eugénie Derouand, World on Fire Season 2 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - November 20, 2023 01:40 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 6 of World on Fire Season 2.  This season, actor Eugénie Derouand’s character, Henriette Guilbert, moves into the foreground. As the Nazis tighten their grip on the hospital, Henriette moves her resistance efforts to the French countr...

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Mark Bonnar, World on Fire Season 2 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - November 13, 2023 01:40 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 5 of World on Fire Season 2.  Actor Mark Bonnar turns up the charm this season with his suave and elegant character, Sir James Danemere. But what lies behind this sly demeanor? This week, Mark Bonnar brings us inside the head of Sir J...

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EP.31 - Starcom

AARGH! MY OPTICS! - November 07, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour
[DISCUSSION] ...And now for something completely different! Having grown a little tired of talking about a massively popular and long running toy line and media franchise, Orion Ghia retreats to a much less well remembered and far shorter lived toy line of his youth... Coleco's STARCOM. Join Ori...

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Ahad Raza Mir, World on Fire Season 2 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - November 06, 2023 01:40 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 4 of World on Fire Season 2.  Actor Ahad Raza Mir joins Season 2 of World on Fire as the heroic leader of the British Indian Army’s Sapper unit, Rajib Pal. In this interview, he discusses the complexity of his character, and how Rajib...

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Meenu Gaur, World on Fire Season 2 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - October 30, 2023 00:40 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for episode 3 of World on Fire Season 2.  For director Meenu Gaur, it’s important to bring a new perspective to the stories and genres that have been around for decades. And that’s what drew her to World on Fire. In this interview, Gaur discusses...


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Richard Overy, World on Fire Season 2 | MASTERPIECE Studio

MASTERPIECE Studio - October 16, 2023 00:40 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for episode 1 of World on Fire Season 2.  Historical advisor Richard Overy joins us as we kick off Season 2 of World on Fire. A lot happened in that first year of WWII, and because this show closely follows the real life history of the war, we wa...

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Sanjeev Bhaskar and Chris Lang Reflect on Unforgotten Season 5

MASTERPIECE Studio - October 09, 2023 00:40 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Unforgotten Season 5.  For actor Sanjeev Bhaskar and writer and creator Chris Lang, Season 5 of Unforgotten was full of new challenges and uncomfortable moments. But by the end of this season, we’re left with a glimmer of hope. As Sanjeev and...