Best Rowan Wright Podcasts (2026)

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The Smashing Machine with Benny Safdie 49:47

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4d ago49:47

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The thing about machines is that we expect them to keep chugging on – to never break or falter. In the late 1990s, a mixed martial artist named Mark Kerr found himself struggling to shoulder the weight of that expectation. Mark was a winner – a muscular behemoth beloved by fans of a rising new fighting league, called Ultimate Fighting Championship,…

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Urchin with Harris Dickinson 49:55

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Today on Script Apart – Harris Dickinson: star of films like Babygirl and Triangle of Sadness, John Lennon in the upcoming Beatles biopics from Sam Mendes, and now, a formidable presence on the other side of the camera too. Urchin, the new drama written and directed by Harris, is a feature debut that “I cannot escape and I cannot forget,” to quote …

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The Lost Bus with Brad Ingelsby 51:05

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Today on Script Apart – all aboard a conversation about The Lost Bus, with a writer who’s glued me to my screen time and time again over the last few years. Brad Ingelsby is the creator of Mare Of Eastown starring Kate Winslet from back in the pandemic. He also created this year’s stunning Task – an HBO drama with Mark Ruffalo about an FBI agent in…

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Hedda with Nia DaCosta 45:49

9d ago45:49

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Aristocratic chaos agent Hedda Gabler isn’t a character. She’s a Rorschach test, and has been for over a century now. Since first appearing in 1891 as the puzzling eponymous protagonist of a play by Henrick Ibsen, audiences have stared into at this recently married woman, driven by domestic suffocation into acts of destruction, and found different …

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Popped! - Truck Violence 17:34

9d ago17:34

17:34

Recorded by Cece Callaghan

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Popped! - Sadie Coelho 28:25

9d ago28:25

28:25

Recorded by Youssef Hamoda

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery with Rian Johnson 43:40

15d ago43:40

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There’s a mystery afoot on today’s episode of Script Apart – and that mystery is how you write a film like Wake Up Dead Man, the new Knives Out movie from my guest today, Rian Johnson. How do you craft a whodunit that’s simultaneously gripping, hilarious and loaded with weighty reflections on religion’s use as a weapon of fear in our current politi…

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The Running Man with Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall 55:16

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Today on the show – Edgar Wright is back! The Running Man is his new Stephen King adaptation, co-written with Michael Bacall, and on this week’s show, the three of us run for our lives through the reality TV dystopia of that movie, and its creation. The film is a new take on the 1982 novel of the same name, and imagines an America in a state of nat…

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Popped! - Yuki Dreams Again 35:32

16d ago35:32

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Recorded and Edited by Ava Francin

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Wicked: For Good with Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox 54:56

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Today on Script Apart, we’re off to see the wizards – the wonderful storytelling wizards, that is, behind the first ever musical we’ve covered on the show. In the early ‘00s, New York-born-and-raised playwright Winnie Holzman was, like the rest of the city, still reeling from the September 11 attacks that claimed 2977 lives. It wasn’t just the atta…

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Nuremberg with James Vanderbilt 40:29

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The history books will tell you that World War II ended on September 2, 1945. The filmmaker James Vanderbilt, however, will tell there was still one last battle left to fight as the conflict officially drew to a close. It was a battle to be fought not in the trenches but in a court room, with the eyes of the world watching and the stakes were impos…

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Sinners with Ryan Coogler 38:43

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How well do you know Ryan Coogler? A couple of years ago, the Oakland-born filmmaker began “to reckon with the fact that the audience doesn’t truly know me at all.” Which might sound strange at first. At that point in his career, the writer-director was all but a household name. His 2013 debut Fruitvale Station had earned him the keys to the Rocky …

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Ballad of a Small Player with Rowan Joffé and Edward Berger 1:07:33

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The Festival of Hungry Ghosts is upon us – and today on Script Apart, we’re betting it all on black. Ballad Of A Small Player is the casino-set new drama from director Edward Berger and writer Rowan Joffe, adapted from the novel of the same name by author Lawrence Osborne. It follows Colin Farrell as a character who introduces himself as Lord Boyle…

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Popped! - Slashneed 22:45

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Recorded by Cecelia Callaghan

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Popped! - JP of Mothland 33:32

2M ago33:32

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Recorded by Youssef Hamoda

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Play Dirty with Shane Black 1:10:07

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Today, Shane Black is back, returning to Script Apart four years since his last appearance on the show! His new film Play Dirty is a heist movie that in some ways he’s been waiting his whole life to make. Fans of his will know that Shane often centres stories around flawed male characters who are informed by the pulpy novels he grew up reading. Aft…

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Popped! - Alix Fernz 2 13:50

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Recorded and edited by Cece Callaghan Special thanks to Phil Larocque

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Good Fortune with Aziz Ansari 53:08

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Aziz Ansari is a comedian who seems to always have been intrigued by the idea of status, and the stranglehold it can put people in. You might not immediately think of it when you think of his work, but the 42-year-old seems drawn to dreamers and strivers and people who yearn to transcend their station in life, finding comedy and drama in the gap be…

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The Life of Chuck with Mike Flanagan 44:29

2M ago44:29

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Put down your briefcase and put on your dancing shoes, everybody, because today on Script Apart – a podcast about the first-draft secrets of great movies and TV shows – Mike Flanagan is back, tap-dancing through the end times with me in celebration of The Life Of Chuck. As I put it in my feature for Empire Magazine earlier this year, when I covered…

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All Of You with Brett Goldstein and William Bridges 52:27

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If a technology existed that matched you with your soul mate – the one true person you’re destined to be with – would you take it? Would it lead you to your happily-ever-after? Or is love too vast and complicated a thing to be pared down to a science like that? These are the questions posed by All Of You, a new romantic drama by our guests today, W…

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Popped! - Baby Berserk 27:06

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Recorded by Youssef Hamoda

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Alien: Earth with Noah Hawley 52:30

3M ago52:30

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In space, no one can hear you scream. On Earth, however, around 9pm for the last seven or eight Tuesdays, you may well hear some shrieks of terror, emanating from nearby apartment windows – all thanks to one of the boldest and blood-soaked sci-fi shows to grace the small screen in recent memory. Alien: Earth is the new show from our guest today, No…

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Popped! - Crasher 24:14

3M ago24:14

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Recorded and edited by Cecelia Callaghan

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Popped! - Poolgirl 25:57

3M ago25:57

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Recorded by Youssef Hamoda

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Sorry, Baby with Eva Victor 1:29:34

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Sorry Baby is a movie that makes no apologies. No apologies for how moved you’ll be by its depiction of a character (and her cat) working through their trauma in a wintry Massachusetts town. No apologies how for much you’ll laugh in a film that for all extents and purposes is a tale of sexual assault. And no apologies for how ambitious it is – play…

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Adolescence with Jack Thorne 59:28

3M ago59:28

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Where do we go and what happens next after the dust at long last settles on an experience that sent tremors through a community? That’s the question pondered in the final moments of Adolescence, the recent smash hit Netflix drama, which last night swept the 2025 Emmys. It’s also, in part, the question at the heart of our conversation today with the…

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Popped! - Customer Service 21:42

4M ago21:42

21:42

Recorded by Cecelia Callaghan

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Popped! - Virginie B 34:41

4M ago34:41

34:41

Interview recorded by Youssef Hamoda at FME

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Popped! - Fresh Wax 15:50

4M ago15:50

15:50

Recorded by Cece Callaghan

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Popped! - La Flemme 25:44

4M ago25:44

25:44

Recorded by Youssef Hamoda

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Say Nothing with Joshua Zetumer 1:00:36

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Get ready for another in our Emmy Awards nominees mini-series. Today, Joshua Zetumer, showrunner of Say Nothing, joins us to break down his riveting adaptation of the book of the same name by Patrick Radden Keefe, which hit screens last year. Say Nothing offered a stunningly well-realised recreation of a tinderbox time on the streets of Belfast, No…

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Dying For Sex with Kim Rosenstock 1:16:25

4M ago1:16:25

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Today on Script Apart, the next in our run of conversations with nominees for this year’s Emmy Awards. Dying For Sex – created by Liz Meriwether and my guest today, Kim Rosenstock – is an adaptation of the popular Wondry podcast series of the same name about one Molly Kochan – a writer diagnosed with terminal cancer, who documents her sexual reawak…

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Popped! - The Darcy's 16:48

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Recorded by Cece Callaghan

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Popped! - Trisha Cruzada 24:52

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Recorded by Youssef Hamoda.

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Andor with Dan Gilroy 1:05:18

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A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, writer-director Dan Gilroy became captivated by the machinations of power; how throughout history, authoritarian figures have seduced electorates, seized control of nations and eroded important pillars of democracy – leading resistance fighters to push back across punishing decades of struggle. It’s a ta…

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Eddington with Ari Aster 57:07

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Welcome to Eddington – population: all of us. The new film from writer-director Ari Aster transports audiences to a town on the brink of combustion that, in a way, we’ve all been residents of for five years now. Look out your window right now and there may not be a New Mexico mountain range hugging the horizon like in the Eddington of Aster’s movie…

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Stage Apart: My Neighbor Totoro with Tom Morton-Smith 48:47

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All aboard the Cat Bus for a moving conversation about one of the greatest animations of all time – and the emotional madness of trying to bring that tale to the stage in London’s West End. If you’re in London at the moment, you need to see the current theatrical adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro currently showing in the West End. Produced by the R…

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Out the Bubble - Mothland Party with TVOD 24:52

5M ago24:52

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Recorded by Cece

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Popped! - Thomas Papakostas 18:23

6M ago18:23

18:23

Recorded by Youssef Hamoda

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Out the Bubble - Le 30 Fevrier 20:41

6M ago20:41

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Recoded by Youssef Hamoda

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Popped! - Karma Glider 14:32

6M ago14:32

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Recorded by Cecelia Callaghan. Thanks to Mothland

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Popped! - Chef Paul Toussaint 15:37

6M ago15:37

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Recorded by Ava Francin

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M3GAN 2.0 with Gerard Johnstone 58:53

6M ago58:53

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In 2023, Megan – a sassy robot, designed to be your daughter’s best friend – danced and dismembered her way to internet infamy. The title character of director Gerard Johnstone and writer Akela Cooper’s Blumhouse horror-comedy was an evil doll in the tradition of Chucky from Child’s Play, but at the same time, distinct in her modernity. As I asked …

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Black Mirror with Charlie Brooker 1:24:25

6M ago1:24:25

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Today on Script Apart, we’re taking a long, hard look in the mirror – Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology series Black Mirror, to be more precise, with the beloved British writer joining Al for a spoiler-filled breakdown of the show’s brilliant latest season. Yes, this week we’re delving into a show that reflects back at us our darkest fears abou…

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Thought Bubble - Barbershops: The Male Therapy Office 28:16

6M ago28:16

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Recorded & edited by Youssef Hamoda.

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Popped! - Alix Fernz 18:13

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Recorded by Cecelia Callaghan

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Popped! - Hanorah 28:16

6M ago28:16

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Recorded & edited by Youssef Hamoda

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Elio with Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian 44:03

6M ago44:03

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As the Talking Heads once nearly sang: “And may find yourself beamed up into a spacecraft. And you may find yourself pretending to be the leader of Earth. And you may find yourself hanging out with weird and wonderful beings from outer-space, going up against intergalactic warlords and maybe learning a thing or two about belonging along the way.” Y…