Best Alan Chung Podcasts (2025)

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Malice, Summerwater, and The Death Of Bunny Munro. With guests Vince Gilligan, Rhea Seehorn and Karolina Wydra 1:44:29

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Pluribus showrunner Vince Gilligan along with stars Rhea Seehorn and Karolina Wydra all piled into the Pilot TV studio this week to talk all about Apple’s excellent new sci-fi series (0:00-30:12). Then, James, Kay and Boyd embarked on a trio of shows about terrible parenting in Prime’s manny from hell thriller Malice (1:08:31), Channel 4’s vacation…

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Pluribus, All Her Fault, and Wild Cherry. With guest Jack Whitehall 1:23:48

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We get nothing from Malice from guest Jack Whitehall this week, who chats with Boyd about his new show. Malice (20:57-35:20). But on the rest of the pod, we’re all sweetness and light, mainly as we not only have a new Vince Gilligan show to watch, in the form of Pluribus on Apple TV (1:07:57), but it’s a show that depicts humanity at its happiest… …

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Down Cemetery Road, I Love LA, and Robin Hood. With guest Ruth Wilson 1:35:03

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Ruth Wilson in uncovering a conspiracy this week, both in Down Cemetery Road on Apple TV (1:02:18), and on this very podcast, for she is this week’s guest (33:12-48:43). Plus we’re back among the branches of Sherwood for Robin Hood on MGM+ (1:14:37), and hanging out with some friends reunited in I Love LA on Sky Comedy (1:22:23). And yes, while Boy…

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It: Welcome To Derry, Trigger Point, and Art Detectives. With guest Stephen Merchant 1:35:01

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Stephen Merchant joins us on the show this week, not only chatting to James about his recent zombie apocalypse debut in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, but ruminating on comedy, rhyming slang, the legacy of The Office and 24. Plus, we follow the exploits of some we’re hanging out with some very different Derry girls (and boys) in It: Welcome to Derr…

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Leonard And Hungry Paul, The Forsytes, and The Ridge. With guests Harlan Coben and Bill Nighy 1:29:05

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We have a Lazarus double bill this week as both showrunner Harlan Coben and Star Bill Nighy drop by for separate (but thematically connected) chats about the new Prime Video thriller (which is embargoed, so we’ll be reviewing it on Pilot+). Plus we go abseiling with Lauren Lyle in The Ridge on BBC2, head back to posh Victorian England with The Fors…

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Riot Women, The Iris Affair, and Monster: The Ed Gein Story. With guests Sally Wainwright, Adjani Salmon & Ali Hughes 1:56:40

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Kay rapidly wishes she’d never returned from holiday after coming back to this week’s show as she discovers that Boyd hasn’t saved her a copy of his book. But that’s at least partially made up for by the fact that she gets to talk to the legendary Sally Wainwright about her new BBC show Riot Women (1:09:56-1:24:35), which we also review. Plus Adjan…

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The Hardest Pivot I Ever Made, with Spencer Stuart’s Lisa Caswell 29:47

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What happens when the support you need comes from someone you least expect? For Lisa Caswell, that moment came with an invitation to a surprise meeting halfway across the world. Today, Lisa is a Partner at Spencer Stuart, where she helps companies attract top Silicon Valley talent. She’s also a former CEO of eMeter, which was acquired by Siemens, a…

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Film Club, Dreaming Whilst Black, and Murder Before Evensong. With Guests Aimee Lou Wood & Suranne Jones, and Jodie Whittaker 1:59:02

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Chad Powers, Frauds, and How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge). With Guests Jessica Chastain & Nnamdi Asomugha and Tom Blyth 2:04:29

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Jessica Chastain and Nnamdi Asomugha are our guests on this week’s show, chatting The Savant on Apple TV+ (47:34-57:53) — a show that unfortunately you can’t watch, the reasons for which we get into in some detail elsewhere on the podcast. Meanwhile, Tom Blyth stops by to talk Billy The Kid (1:14:38-1:28:46), which you CAN see on MGM+. Also, we try…

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The Power of Seeking Discomfort with Prudential’s Carolynn Smith 24:53

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What happens when you’re suddenly asked to lead the very people who used to be your peers? For Carolynn Smith, that moment came with her first big promotion. It taught her lessons about courage, discomfort, and how leadership often begins by stepping into the unknown. Today, Carolynn is Head of U.S. Service and Enterprise Process Excellence at Prud…

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Slow Horses, Wayward, and The Hack. With guests Ruth Bradley and Christopher Chung 1:54:28

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It’s a Slow Horses special (kind of) this week as not only do we review the show’s fifth series but both Christopher Chung (Roddy Ho) and Ruth Bradley (Emma Flyte) are guests, with Ruth dropping into the studio mid-record almost as if she’d just been sent over from The Park by Taverner. Meanwhile, we take a look at the phone hacking scandal along w…

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Black Rabbit, Gen V, and Juice. With guests Andrew Lincoln and David Ireland 1:20:27

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We’re in Coldwater this week as Andrew Lincoln and writer David Ireland discuss the new ITV thriller (23:55-44:34). Plus Kay asks the question as to whether we take TV (or film, or book) recommendations from other people. And then there’s this week’s crop of shows, which includes Netflix’s brotherly strife miniseries Black Rabbit (53:45), Prime’s s…

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Throwback: Role Modelling Vulnerability with Kensho’s Bhavesh Dayalji 25:46

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What does allyship look like when you’re leading a company? For Bhavesh Dayalji, it often means being honest about the challenges of balancing work and family, and choosing to show up as a husband and father first. This is a throwback episode, but Bhavesh’s reflections on leadership and allyship remain just as powerful today. Bhavesh shares how vul…

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Task, The Girlfriend, and Only Murders In The Building. With guests Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke 1:23:36

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We are nominally back to normal this week, meaning we’re all in the studio and the YouTube cameras are back on. And a good thing too as we take on HBO crime thriller Task (55:00), the fifth season of Only Murders In The Building on Disney+ (1:12:15) and Prime Video’s domestic thriller The Girlfriend (1:03:39), for which both Robin Wright and Olivia…

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The Guest, I Fought The Law, and The Runarounds. With Guest Domhnall Gleeson 1:11:43

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We’re back to a semblance of normality this week, except for James being in Florida and having to dial in remotely, but that doesn’t stop us taking on the police with Sheridan Smith in I Fought The Law on ITV1, exploring upstairs/downstairs relationships with Eve Myles in The Guest on BBC1, and rocking out with The Runarounds on Prime Video. Plus D…

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Throwback: Eclectic Career Paths with Google’s Hayete Gallot 29:35

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While we’re busy working on new episodes, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite conversations from Season 3. When we first spoke with Hayete Gallott, she was Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. Today, she is President of Customer Experience at Google. We thought this was a meaningful opportunity to revisit her reflections on career choices, c…

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Atomic, King & Conqueror, and Invasion. With guests Suranne Jones and Matt Charman, Alfie Allen and Shazad Latif 1:39:45

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It’s a bumper, star-studded week for guests with two glorious duos discussing their shows - Hostage and Atomic, while we’re still missing our leader James so it’s another “Dot and Ethel” two hander with Boyd, live from the Edinburgh TV festival, and Kay, live from her living room. They review the aforementioned Atomic on Sky, plus King & Conqueror …

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Peacemaker, The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox, and Mudtown. With guest Alex Lawther 1:40:46

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The excellent Alex Lawther is our guest this week. You’ll know him from The End Of The F****ing World among other fine shows, and now he is one of the shining lights in the ensemble cast of Alien: Earth. Lazy James is still away so Boyd and Kay are joined by Crime Queen Steph, and it just so happens there’s a lot of crime shows for us to discuss, i…

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Building with Purpose with Across AI’s Nilou Salehi 24:55

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We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] with a voice memo describing your In Your Ellement moment. We might feature your story in an upcoming episode! *** What does it look like to pivot while staying true to your purpose? For Nilou Salehi, it meant putting her professorship role at UC Berkeley on pause to co-found Across AI,…

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LIVE: Alien: Earth, In Flight, and Butterfly. With special guest co-host Russell T. Davies 2:25:17

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Our Live 350th episode turned out to be a live 349th episode (because maths) but that didn’t stop it from being a storming night at Kings Place in London. Why? Because on this episode our trio became a quartet and we were joined by the magnificent Russell T Davies, who was anointed as an official Co-Pilot. Much hilarity ensued (just wait till you g…

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Outlander: Blood Of My Blood, Platonic, and Ridley. With Guests Adrian Dunbar and Paul Wesley 1:55:45

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We have a double whammy of guests this week as Adrian Dunbar joins us to chat Ridley on ITV. Plus Paul Wesley chats to us about returning to the bridge as Kirk in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Meanwhile, Scottish shagfest Outlander gets a spinoff series with highland origin story Blood Of My Blood on MGM+, and Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne return for …

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Throwback: Shaping the Future of Leadership with Praxis Lab’s Elise Smith 26:21

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We’ll be back soon with a new episode. In the meantime, enjoy this throwback conversation with Elise Smith, Co-founder and CEO of Praxis Labs. Earlier this month, Praxis Labs was acquired—marking a major milestone in the company’s journey. This episode offers a look at the vision and values that helped get it there. What makes a great manager in to…

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The Assassin, The Count Of Monte Cristo, The Gone, and The Mayfair Witches 1:15:10

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There’s a returning series bonanza this week as we take our pick from The Gone and The Mayfair Witches, both returning to the Beeb. But that’s okay as we also have two big ticket originals making their TV debut this week, specifically Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore comedy thriller The Assassin on Prime Video and Sam Claflin-starring Alexandre Du…

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Mix Tape, The Narrow Road To The Deep North, and Washington Black. With guest Mark Gatiss 1:46:16

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Bookish goes Poddish this week as Mark Gatiss joins us on the show to talk about post-war crime solving on U&Alibi (30:01-51:57). Plus we review a trio of time-hopping dramas this week from Aussie/Northern ‘80s drama Mix Tape on BBC2 (1:11:16), epic WWII literary adaptation The Narrow Road To The Deep North on BBC1 (1:26:44), and emancipation and i…

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When Feedback and Data Fuels Creativity, with Angela Morgenstern 25:59

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We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] with a voice memo describing your In Your Ellement moment. We might feature your story in an upcoming episode! *** What do you do when the data doesn’t give you a clear answer—but the decision can’t wait? For Angela Morgenstern, that moment came early in her tenure at Netflix. It offere…

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Too Much, The Institute, Bookish, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. With guests Jeffrey Dean Morgan & Scott Gimple, Emer Kenny & Lauren Lyle 1:50:02

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Too Much is very much the phrase of the week on this episode as not only do we have four guests — specifically Karen Pirie’s Lauren Lyle and Emer Kenny (50:50-1:04:40) and The Walking Dead: Dead City’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Scott Gimple (22:53-32:36)— but we also review four shows — specifically Too Much on Netflix (1:04:40), The Institute on MGM…

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Foundation, Ballard, and Shifting Gears. With guest Jared Harris 1:39:16

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It’s the episode you’ve all been waiting for… James talking about Foundation for a truly heroic amount of time as not only does the team review (1:00:25) the show’s third season (for which James provides Kay with a ‘helpful’ primer on the series) but he also gets to sit down with Jared Harris and chat psychohistory and four-dimensional objects to h…

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Training for Change in the Age of AI, with Microsoft’s Miki Tsusaka 26:24

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We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] with a voice memo describing your In Your Ellement moment. We might feature your story in an upcoming episode! *** What do you do when a dream opportunity arrives at an inopportune time? For Miki Tsusaka, it called for some tough conversations with the people she trusted most. This epis…

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Squid Game, The Bear, Such Brave Girls, and Scrublands. With guest Kat Sadler 1:38:37

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Kay is still on her terribly important work assignment to Rimini this week, so beams into the studio on the airwaves as she, James and Boyd discuss everything from Boyd’s new foray into the world of video influencers to Kay’s poolside celebrity encounters. We’re also joined on the show by Such Brave Girls creator/star Kat Sadler (31:25-50:35), as w…

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Malice, Summerwater, and The Death Of Bunny Munro. With guests Vince Gilligan, Rhea Seehorn and Karolina Wydra 1:44:29

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Pluribus, All Her Fault, and Wild Cherry. With guest Jack Whitehall 1:23:48

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Down Cemetery Road, I Love LA, and Robin Hood. With guest Ruth Wilson 1:35:03

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It: Welcome To Derry, Trigger Point, and Art Detectives. With guest Stephen Merchant 1:35:01

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Leonard And Hungry Paul, The Forsytes, and The Ridge. With guests Harlan Coben and Bill Nighy 1:29:05

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Riot Women, The Iris Affair, and Monster: The Ed Gein Story. With guests Sally Wainwright, Adjani Salmon & Ali Hughes 1:56:40

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The Hardest Pivot I Ever Made, with Spencer Stuart’s Lisa Caswell 29:47

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Film Club, Dreaming Whilst Black, and Murder Before Evensong. With Guests Aimee Lou Wood & Suranne Jones, and Jodie Whittaker 1:59:02

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Chad Powers, Frauds, and How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge). With Guests Jessica Chastain & Nnamdi Asomugha and Tom Blyth 2:04:29

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The Power of Seeking Discomfort with Prudential’s Carolynn Smith 24:53

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Slow Horses, Wayward, and The Hack. With guests Ruth Bradley and Christopher Chung 1:54:28

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Black Rabbit, Gen V, and Juice. With guests Andrew Lincoln and David Ireland 1:20:27

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Throwback: Role Modelling Vulnerability with Kensho’s Bhavesh Dayalji 25:46

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Task, The Girlfriend, and Only Murders In The Building. With guests Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke 1:23:36

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The Guest, I Fought The Law, and The Runarounds. With Guest Domhnall Gleeson 1:11:43

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Throwback: Eclectic Career Paths with Google’s Hayete Gallot 29:35

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Atomic, King & Conqueror, and Invasion. With guests Suranne Jones and Matt Charman, Alfie Allen and Shazad Latif 1:39:45

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Peacemaker, The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox, and Mudtown. With guest Alex Lawther 1:40:46

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Building with Purpose with Across AI’s Nilou Salehi 24:55

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LIVE: Alien: Earth, In Flight, and Butterfly. With special guest co-host Russell T. Davies 2:25:17

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Outlander: Blood Of My Blood, Platonic, and Ridley. With Guests Adrian Dunbar and Paul Wesley 1:55:45

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Throwback: Shaping the Future of Leadership with Praxis Lab’s Elise Smith 26:21

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The Assassin, The Count Of Monte Cristo, The Gone, and The Mayfair Witches 1:15:10

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Mix Tape, The Narrow Road To The Deep North, and Washington Black. With guest Mark Gatiss 1:46:16

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When Feedback and Data Fuels Creativity, with Angela Morgenstern 25:59

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Too Much, The Institute, Bookish, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. With guests Jeffrey Dean Morgan & Scott Gimple, Emer Kenny & Lauren Lyle 1:50:02

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Foundation, Ballard, and Shifting Gears. With guest Jared Harris 1:39:16

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Training for Change in the Age of AI, with Microsoft’s Miki Tsusaka 26:24

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Squid Game, The Bear, Such Brave Girls, and Scrublands. With guest Kat Sadler 1:38:37