Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara
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Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara
If you have tinsel on the brain and mulled wine in your blood, this is the podcast for you. We’re living in a golden age of delightfully cheesy Christmas movies, and on Bah Humbug we examine the biggest new offerings this season, as well as looking back at classic seasonal favourites. Think Kurt Rus...
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Our Little Secret
If you want to read or hear more from Helen, you can order her book "Women Vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film" which is out now.
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Carry On
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Dear Santa
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Christmas Eve In Miller's Point
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That Christmas
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Hot Frosty And The Merry Gentlemen
Think Christmas, think perfect chiselled abs. At least, that appears to be the message from Netflix's Hot Frosty and The Merry Gentlemen.
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Red One
It's the biggest Christmas film in years, with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Chris Evans leading a starry cast and a massive budget. But is Red One ac...
The Holdover
It's not often that you see a Christmas film with Oscar buzz, nor one that the studio for some reason decide to release in the second half of January....
Pop Culture: with Helen O’Hara
SHOW BLURB
Welcome to Pop Culture, the podcast that puts soft drinks at the top of the menu. Helen O'Hara and Kat Brown are arts journali...
There's Something In The Barn
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Silent Night
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Hannah Waddingham
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Wonka
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Merry Little Batman
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Genie
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Candy Cane Lane
You know the one about the dyslexic who sold his soul to Satan? Well, imagine that but it's a family comedy starring Eddie Murphy and instead of Satan...
Your Christmas or Mine 2
How can the same s**t happen to the same couple twice, as John McClane might ask? Well, it's a bigger and weirder mix-up of Christmas plans in this Br...
Santa Claus The Movie
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It’s a Wonderful Knife
It's a spectacular pun, based on the best Christmas Film Of All Time (TM), but now with added slasher action. This Christmas horror isn't for the fain...
20 Years of Tokyo Godfathers, Love Actually, Elf, and Bad Santa
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BONUS EPISODE: Emily Zarka / Krampus
Another special bonus episode today, this time focusing on Christmas monsters. Dr Emily Zarka has made an academic study of things that go bump in the...
Guardians Of The Galaxy Christmas Special
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has delivered another Christmas-themed treat, and Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb joins us to discuss it. This time it's a...
The Bishop's Wife 75th
One of the classics turns a sprightly 75 this year, so film historian Pamela Hutchinson and The Independent's film critic Clarisse Loughrey took the t...
The Noel Diary
Brace yourself: The Noel Diary is a Netflix Christmas romance that has some actual dramatic substance! Film critic Amon Warmann and editor Amanda Keat...
Christmas Bloody Christmas
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A Christmas Story Christmas
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The Santa Clauses
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BONUS EPISODE: Your Christmas Or Mine interview with Screenwriter Tom Parry
A special bonus episode today, with Your Christmas Or Mine screenwriter Tom Parry explaining how his Christmas comedy of errors came to be, and how he...
Muppet Christmas Carol 30th Anniversary
It's time for one of the big ones! The Muppet Christmas Carol turns 30 this year so podcaster Tom Salinsky and film critic Olly Richards dropped in to...
Falling For Christmas
Lindsay Lohan is back, and this time she's in a Christmas movie that dares ask, what if Overboard, but no-one was awful? Cathy and Dave from The Cinem...
Violent Night
What if Jolly Old Saint Nick went bloody all John Wick? That's the brilliant premise of Tommy Wirkola's fun Christmas action movie, and author and awa...
This Is Christmas
This Is Christmas is the heartwarming story of what might happen if you stood up and talked to some strangers on the train. No, it's not about murder!...
Your Christmas Or Mine?
Welcome back to Bah Humbug for another Christmas season! Today we're starting with Your Christmas Or Mine, the first of two train-based British Christ...
Lani Diane Rich - special Episode
In order to celebrate the release of Helen's book "Women Vs Hollywood" in North America, we're releasing this special episode featuring the full inter...
Shelley Stamp Special Episode
In order to celebrate the release of Helen's book "Women Vs Hollywood" in paperback, we're releasing this special episode featuring the full episode w...
A Hawkeye Christmas with Directors Bert and Bertie
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If you’ve enjoyed listening...
Home Sweet Home Alone
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Silent Night with Camille Griffin
"Silent Night" director Camille Griffin joins Helen to talk all about her film and Christmas in general.
If you’ve enjoyed listening to “BAH HUM...
Last Train to Christmas with Michael Sheen
Renowned actor Michael Sheen joins Helen to talk about The Last Train to Christmas and his own traditions at Christmas!
If you’ve enjoyed liste...