Best Midwinter Entertainment Podcasts (2025)

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British Invaders 496: Susan Hill’s The Small Hand: A Ghost Story (Part 2) 19:35

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Susan Hill’s The Small Hand: A Ghost Story was a 2019 adaptation of the 2010 novel by Susan Hill. It was the first Christmas ghost story to debut on Channel 5. It’s also known as Susan Hill’s Ghost Story and The Small Hand. A Ghost Story. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected]…

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British Invaders 495: Susan Hill’s The Small Hand: A Ghost Story (Part 1) 15:57

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Susan Hill’s The Small Hand: A Ghost Story was a 2019 adaptation of the 2010 novel by Susan Hill. It was the first Christmas ghost story to debut on Channel 5. It’s also known as Susan Hill’s Ghost Story and The Small Hand. A Ghost Story. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected]…

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British Invaders 494: Primeval (Part 2) 29:19

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Primeval was an ITV series that ran from 2007 through 2011. Anomalies are opening and acting as portals to the distance past. Dinosaurs and other creatures are emerging into the present day and causing all kinds of havoc. A team of scientists is working to solve the mystery of the anomalies and to protect the public from attacking creatures. Please…

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British Invaders 493: Primeval (Part 1) 25:10

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Primeval was an ITV series that ran from 2007 through 2011. Mysterious anomalies are opening portals from the distance past — and allowing dinosaurs to wander into the present day. Our heroes must protect the public from “creature attacks” and keep the secret of the anomalies. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You ca…

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British Invaders 492: Midwinter of the Spirit (Part 2) 18:52

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Midwinter of the Spirit was a 2015 ITV series based on the novel by Phil Rickman. A rural vicar called Merrily Watkins is also a “deliverance minister” — someone who performs exorcisms. The police bring her into an investigation as an expert. Murder, corruption and evil spirits could all be involved…. Please send us your comments, questions, reques…

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British Invaders 491: Midwinter of the Spirit (Part 1) 19:00

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Midwinter of the Spirit was a 2015 adaptation of a novel by Phil Rickman. Merrily Watkins is a rural vicar who is also a “deliverance minister” — someone who performs exorcisms. She becomes involved in a police investigation and a complex web of events…. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at britishin…

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British Invaders 490: Thunderbirds 60th Anniversary! 11:52

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Thunderbirds was first broadcast on September 30, 1965 — 60 years ago today! This classic Supermarionation series from Gerry Anderson featured the Tracy family and their amazing Thunderbird vehicles as they carry out daring rescues! Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and …

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British Invaders 489: The Trap Door (Part 2) 19:22

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The Trap Door was a claymation series for children that was first broadcast in 1986. It featured strange yet cheerful creatures in a castle cellar. Even stranger creatures would emerge when the trap door was opened! Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you can find us o…

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British Invaders 488: The Trap Door (Part 1) 19:54

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The Trap Door was a 1980s claymation series for children. It featured strange and cheerful creatures in a gothic castle…. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you can find us on the British Invaders Facebook Group. We are also on Threads and Instagram. British Invaders …

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British Invaders 487: Space: 1999 50th Anniversary! 13:49

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Space: 1999 was first broadcast on September 4, 1975 — 50 years ago today! This live-action series from Gerry Anderson featured the crew of Moonbase Alpha exploring the universe as they fight for survival. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you can find us on the Brit…

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British Invaders 486: Schalcken the Painter (Part 2) 22:59

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Schalcken the Painter was a 1979 adaptation of the ghost story by Sheridan Le Fanu. A terrifying man confronts two 17th-century Dutch painters with an offer of gold to “buy” a young woman’s hand in marriage. As they deal with this, we see the paintings come to life on screen. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can…

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From Compulsion, Nothing 14:18

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Send us a text In October 1774, a congressional committee with Richard Henry Lee at the helm drafted a Petition to the King. The petition invited “royal attention” to colonial grievances in pursuit of a peaceful resolution to the mounting crisis. That petition died in Parliament, starved of attention, but it wasn’t the last formal attempt by the Co…

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British Invaders 485: Schalcken the Painter (Part 1) 23:09

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Schalcken the Painter was a 1979 adaptation of the ghost story by Sheridan Le Fanu. The lives of 17th-century Dutch painters are interrupted when a terrifying stranger brings a fortune in gold and a shocking request. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you can find us …

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British Invaders 484: The City & The City (Part 2) 28:24

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The City & The City was a 2018 BBC adaptation of the book by China Miéville. Two cities occupy the same space but are also somehow very separate. Someone from one city is murdered after crossing into the other. Which police force will investigate? Can they avoid involvement by mysterious organization know as Breach? Please send us your comments, qu…

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British Invaders 483: The City & The City (Part 1) 23:08

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The City & The City was a 2018 BBC adaptation of the book by China Miéville. Two cities occupy the same space but are also somehow very separate. What happens when a murder seems to cross the jurisdictions of both police forces? Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you …

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British Invaders 482: Four Feather Falls (Part 2) 31:21

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Four Feather Falls was an early supermarionation show from Gerry Anderson. Tex Tucker is a sheriff with a talking dog, a talking horse and guns that can fire without him even touching them! Four magic feathers make this possible in this western series from 1960. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at b…

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Wounds Too Deep 18:13

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Send us a text 17 June 1775. The redoubt fortifying Breed’s Hill–not terribly far from the taller Bunker’s Hill–proved permeable to the advancing waves of better trained, better equipped British regulars. The British took Breed’s Hill, but paid a high price in men and perhaps an even higher price in emboldening colonial militia, who inflicted more …

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British Invaders 481: Four Feather Falls (Part 1) 24:21

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Four Feather Falls was a 1960 supermarionation series from Gerry Anderson. Tex Tucker is a sheriff with a talking dog and a talking horse in this western series with magical elements. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you can find us on the British Invaders Facebook …

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British Invaders 480: Noughts + Crosses (Part 2) 22:16

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Noughts + Crosses was a BBC alternate-history series that ran in 2020 and 2022. It showed us a world where an African empire colonized Europe, and African “Crosses” rule over European “Noughts”. Striking inequities are on display, and a resistance movement is brewing. The series is based on the 2001 novel by Malorie Blackman. Please send us your co…

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British Invaders 479: Noughts + Crosses (Part 1) 22:03

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Noughts + Crosses was a BBC series that ran in 2020 and 2022. It featured an alternate history where an empire from Africa colonized England. This results in a great deal of tension between the African ruling class and British working class…. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at britishinvaders@gmail…

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"A Very Warm Engagement" 17:56

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Send us a text British General Charles Cornwallis said it best: “The Rivers of Virginia are advantageous to an invading army.” In the spring of 1781, the Royal Navy and loyalist privateers raided along the major and minor waterways of the Chesapeake. The April 1781 log of the British war sloop HMS Savage offers a glimpse of the destruction wrought …

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British Invaders 478: The Omega Factor Big Finish Audios (Part 2) 24:54

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The Omega Factor was a 1979 BBC supernatural investigation show that starred Louise Jameson and others. In 2015, Big Finish launched a series of original audio dramas that continue the story. Louise Jameson reprises her role, and some new characters join the story some 35 years after we left it. Roughly once a year, we like to follow a show we’ve a…

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British Invaders 477: The Omega Factor Big Finish Audios (Part 1) 24:15

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The Omega Factor was a 1979 supernatural investigation show from the BBC. Big Finish has now produced audio dramas featuring original-series actors along with new cast members. About once a year, we like to follow a show we’ve already covered into a different medium. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us…

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British Invaders 476: Survivors 50th Anniversary! 12:53

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Survivors was first broadcast on April 16, 1975 on the BBC — 50 years ago today! After a disease wipes out 99% of the population, what will the survivors do? What challenges will they encounter, and how will they meet those challenges? Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], a…

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British Invaders 475: The Living and the Dead (Part 2) 24:54

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The Living and the Dead was a 2016 six-episode ghost-story series from the BBC. It’s 1894 and Nathan and Charlotte Appleby have taken over a farming estate. As they struggle to learn how to run this farm, strange and ghostly things from the past start to appear…. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at …

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British Invaders 474: The Living and the Dead (Part 1) 19:09

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The Living and the Dead was a BBC ghost-story series from 2016. When Nathan and Charlotte Appleby take over a farming estate in 1894, there are strange events waiting for them…. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you can find us on the British Invaders Facebook Group.…

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Another Woman's Mail 21:42

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Send us a text A 1781 letter written by Stratford-reared Alice Lee Shippen is mistakenly delivered to Braintree rather than to Boston. Politically literate, if shaped by family partiality, Alice's letter offers its unintended recipient clarity about intrigues involving an absent husband on diplomatic assignment. At the heart of these intrigues is a…

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British Invaders 473: Simon and the Witch (Part 2) 22:39

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Simon and the Witch was a 1987 BBC children’s series. Simon is a schoolboy and the Witch is his friend. She can’t read very well, so she becomes a student in Simon’s class. Magic and comedy ensues! Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you can find us on the British Inva…

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British Invaders 472: Simon and the Witch (Part 1) 20:29

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Simon and the Witch was a BBC children’s series from 1987. Simon is a schoolboy and one of his friends is a witch. Magic always finds its way into their comic adventures! Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you can find us on the British Invaders Facebook Group. We are…

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British Invaders 471: The Aphrodite Inheritance (Part 2) 22:59

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The Aphrodite Inheritance was a 1979 BBC serial set on the Greek island of Cypress. David Collier travels to Cypress after his brother is in a car accident there. David is soon caught up in the search for a cave containing some valuable artifacts. Three mysterious characters seem to be involved, but we don’t know why…. Please send us your comments,…

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British Invaders 470: The Aphrodite Inheritance (Part 1) 19:38

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The Aphrodite Inheritance was a 1979 BBC serial set on the Greek island of Cypress. David Collier travels to Cypress after his brother is in a car accident there. Soon, David is caught up in a web of events that connects him to some strange and mysterious characters…. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach u…

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British Invaders 469: Intergalactic (Part 2) 27:09

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Intergalactic was a 2021 series from Sky One about a group of female convicts who steal the prison spaceship transporting them. Will they find their way to the free world of Arcadia? Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you can find us on the British Invaders Facebook G…

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British Invaders 468: Intergalactic (Part 1) 19:11

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Intergalactic was 2021 series from Sky One about a group of female prisoners fleeing on a stolen spaceship in the future. Will they find the free world they are looking for? Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you can find us on the British Invaders Facebook Group. We …

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British Invaders 467: The Tractate Middoth & The Dead Room (Part 2) 20:31

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The Tractate Middoth and The Dead Room were from the BBC’s annual A Ghost Story for Christmas tradition. The first was an M.R. James adaptation from 2013, and the second was an original ghost story from 2018. They were written and directed by Mark Gatiss. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at britishi…

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In the Bleak Midwinter 8:59

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Send us a text Of the two epically scaled paintings of George Washington’s Delaware crossing, by far the most recognizable is Washington Crossing the Delaware by German-born, Philadelphia-raised Emanuel Leutze. This theatrical 1851 painting (measuring roughly 21 x 12 ft.) hangs today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its charismatic Washington com…

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British Invaders 466: Nineteen Eighty-Four 70th Anniversary! 13:02

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Nineteen Eighty-Four was first broadcast on December 12, 1954 — 70 years ago today! This BBC adaptation of George Orwell’s classic aired only five years after novel was published. Join us as we celebrate the anniversary of this live TV drama. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at britishinvaders@gmail…

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British Invaders 465: The Tractate Middoth & The Dead Room (Part 1) 16:32

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The Tractate Middoth and The Dead Room were both from the BBC’s annual A Ghost Story for Christmas strand. One was an M.R. James adaptation from 2013, and the other was an original ghost story from 2018. Both were written and directed by Mark Gatiss. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at britishinvade…

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British Invaders 464: Space Precinct (Part 2) 26:00

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Space Precinct was a 1994/1995 Gerry Anderson series about a police force made up of humans and aliens. Organized crime, murder and hate crime coexist with cloning, cyborgs, interplanetary travel and more. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you can find us on the Brit…

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British Invaders 463: Space Precinct (Part 1) 26:04

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Space Precinct was a 1994/1995 Gerry Anderson series. When NYPD detective Patrick Brogan transfers to Demeter City, a whole new world of crime in space awaits him! Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you can find us on the British Invaders Facebook Group. We are also o…

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Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble 16:14

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Send us a text Time once again for a seasonal special edition of Stratford Mail. Visitors to Stratford are often struck by the wards against witches and evil spirits incised into its exterior brick and interior floors. These marks are reminders of our ancestors’ belief that this visible world overlapped an invisible world that was a source of both …

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British Invaders 462: Dracula (Part 2) 26:18

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Dracula is a 2006 BBC/Granada/WGBH adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel. When Arthur Holmwood discovers a frightening disease in his family, he will do anything for a cure. The sinister Brotherhood is calling upon a certain European count who may be able to help. Who might suffer as result of this meddling with the supernatural? Please se…

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British Invaders 461: Dracula (Part 1) 15:34

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Dracula is a 2006 BBC/Granada/WGBH adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel. When Arthur Holmwood discovers a frightening disease in his family, he will do anything for a cure. His quest will involve a certain European count…. Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you c…

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British Invaders 460: The Borrowers (Part 2) 19:00

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The Borrowers was a 1992/1993 BBC adaptation of the classic children’s novels by Mary Norton. A family of six-inch-tall people survive by “borrowing” food and other items from humans. What will happen when some of the full-sized humans discover the Borrowers? Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at brit…

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School Days 17:56

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Send us a text Back to school with Stratford Mail! This month we think about educational opportunity in the Virginia colony. The rural Northern Neck was slow to develop the kind of city and district schools found in the more densely populated New England colonies. This posed no problem for elites, who could afford to engage private tutors for their…

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British Invaders 459: The Borrowers (Part 1) 21:43

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The Borrowers was a 1992 and 1993 adaptation of the classic children’s novels by Mary Norton. A group of six-inch-tall people make their way by “borrowing” food and other items from humans. What will happen when a human child discovers these tiny Borrowers? Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at britis…

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British Invaders 458: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Part 2) 25:35

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a 2015 adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s 2004 novel of the same name. The two magicians of the title begin to practice magic more openly in 1806. How will their actions and relationship change the course of history? Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at britishinvaders@gm…

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An Interview with... FilmIsRidley (Extended Version) 40:47

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Roughly 2 years since his 1st interview, Ridley aka “FilmIsRidley” is back!In this follow up, Bradley asks some of the same questions as last time (as well as some ones too), to see how Ridley’s responses might’ve changed.From discussing his experiences as a content creator, to his journey through film school, and his advice for others wanting to f…

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British Invaders 457: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Part 1) 21:04

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a 2015 adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s 2004 novel of the same name. What happens when practical magic returns to England in 1806? Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at [email protected], and you can find us on the British Invaders Facebook Group. We are also on …

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Every Heart Throbs 12:21

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Send us a text Before Beatlemania, there was Marquismania! 200 years ago this August, the Marquis de Lafayette returned to these shores after an absence of 40 years. In his 13-month 'farewell tour' of the 24 United States, the nation he helped to found, the Marquis was cheered and celebrated by grateful crowds in the hundreds and thousands. As the …

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Resting in Peace 15:51

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Send us a text Sociologist Émile Durkheim taught us that the study of human mourning raises a window on human values and lifeways. Returning after a brief hiatus, Stratford Mail ponders elite deathways in the Northern Neck, with close attention to the opinions of Robert Carter III, as recorded by Philip Vickers Fithian, the tutor at Carter's Nomini…