AJ @secretarmypod.bsky.social and I met up tonight to see the wondrous Louise Jameson. Ryan being there too made it a full-on ‘Down the Line: a Secret Army podcast’ meet-up. Lovely evening.

Finished work and will soon drive from MCR to Leeds to see the amazing Louise Jameson in her one-woman show. 🫶 I’ve seen it before but it’s worth travelling for. 🚙 It’s also a podcast reunion as will meet Andy & Ryan there! @louisejameson.bsky.social oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/louise...

New podcast ep out now! 🥂 Andy & AJ take a look at S2E8, The Big One, with special contributions from the fab @chrisfilmandart.bsky.social Thanks for joining us and sharing your knowledge, Chris! Listen using the link or where you get your podcasts! secretarmypod.podbean.com/e/series-2-e...

Something really weird happens when you play this record on Saint Nicholas Day… 🤣🎅🏼

Gradually rewatching Secret Army & working through your back catalogue per episode. Hi to me in a few months time when I catch up!

Coming up soon! This Friday: Andy & I record our episode on S2E9, Little Old Lady This Saturday, podcast ep for S2E8, The Big One, is released! 20th Dec: Interview with Daniel Hill (who was in S2E8) Xmas special: Interview with Paul Shelley who played Major Bradley! @andypodding.bsky.social

Our new episode on Enlightenment includes a hallucinatory ChatGPT Tegan quiz and sage advice not to fall for the revival of bamboo furniture: on.soundcloud.com/VNCHSQocWbMr... #DoctorWho #TeganJovanka #NigelHavers

What fun! And so pleased to hear the most wanted story is the genuinely hilarious The Myth Makers - none of your Dalek-based tosh. Thanks as ever for your dedication in putting this together. I have a long train journey ahead of me to listen to the rest. #bliss #doctorwho #missingepisodes

🚨 Limited time left to go inside the Candide!! An update from Bridget at the 316 Community, the organisation currently renting out 28 Grand Place in Brussels. (This was the building used for the exterior of Le Candide in series 2 & 3 of Secret Army!) 🧵1/3

Tell us how you are and what you’re up to this weekend and we’ll say hi and read it out on the pod! 👋 (For S2E8 The Big One.)

The return of World Enough and Time: a classic Doctor Who podcast! This month Andy & Alex review the Troughton tale - The Wheel in Space. #DoctorWho #podcast #patricktroughton #missingepisodes pca.st/episode/7607...

On Friday, @andypodding.bsky.social and I will record our podcast ep for S2E8, The Big One! Comment with your thoughts on this episode and we’ll read them out on the show. Thanks! Plot: A bombing raid kills Brandt’s wife & son. Brandt confronts a bomb aimer, captured as Lifeline scared him away.

If anyone wants to meets Lifeline’s forger, then Stephen Yardley and Jan Harvey are doing autographs and photoshoots at the next London Film Fair in November! I’m going (AJ) if anyone wants to hang out and chat about Secret Army. It would be great to see fellow fans there!

Thank you AJ and Hazel McBride for such a wonderful conversation and all the preparation behind it. So many fascinating memories and stories shared. Hope you are well on the mend, AJ.

OTD 1977: Secret Army The gripping wartime thriller begins Boy me only ever saw the thrilling opening titles before the TV was switched off. But seen much later on DVD, it was as tense and brilliant as long-promised… And a happy second birthday to the superb @secretarmypod.bsky.social!

Andy, I've just started a rewatch of Secret Army thanks to your podcasts. Thanks for all your work. X

In this month’s Down the Line AJ interviews the wonderful Hazel McBride who played Madeleine Duclos in #SecretArmy www.podbean.com/ei/pb-qcwyc-... Please share. Thank you!

Angela Richards, just visible on the right of the right hand side photo. This version of Villette was wiped by the BBC which is such a shame as I’d love to see it. 😭

A delight to speak to director, actor, and dialect coach Paul Wagar today. Paul played Peter Harris, one of the airmen who kidnapped Kessler in S2E7, Weekend! We plan to release the interview in October.

Was watching him in A Design for Living last Christmas, not knowing he’d already died. A fine actor. He’s memorable for being in one of the best scenes in Secret Army, where Angela Richards gives the ‘compartments’ speech which should have won some awards!!

Just discovered Clive Arrindell slipped away quietly without many announcements around Aug/Sept 24. Fans will remember him from A Question of Loyalty as Ernst Stoller, masquerading as a British airman called Maurice in an attempt to infiltrate the line. 1/2

Saddened to hear Norman Eshley passed away last weekend. He did a wonderful job as Sgt. Clifford Howson in S1E6, Growing Up. He played the airman discovered by the boy in the caves, whom Albert and Lisa daringly rescued by staging a horse riding accident. Condolences to his friends and family.

<New episode!> We review Series 2: Episode 6 - Scorpion in which Brandt’s wife Erika visits Brussels and Van Broecken is engaged to identify a fake evader www.podbean.com/wlei/pb-6a9q... #SecretArmy @secretarmypod.bsky.social

Thank you Simon!

On Sunday we will be recording our review of the #SecretArmy episode Weekend in which two American evaders cause problems for Lifeline and the Van Broeckens meet with tragedy. Please let me and @secretarmypod.bsky.social know your thoughts…

Oh my Christ! Why is #SquidGame 3 so terrible?!?Also that guy playing the English VIP may just be the worst performance on television ever. Endurance watching the last few episodes.

Happy new episode day! 🥂 This time Andy & AJ discuss S2E5, Not According to Plan. Written by David Crane and directed by Viktors Ritelis. 🌩️ Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or online using the link below! secretarmypod.podbean.com/e/series-2-e... @andypodding.bsky.social

Thank you again to all our wonderful listeners for coming down the line with us, for the brilliant banter on social media, for the lovely emails, and for all the ongoing support. You’re awesome and we’re lucky to have you! @andypodding.bsky.social

Happy new episode day! 🥂 Andy & AJ are joined by guest @josephlidster.bsky.social to take a look at S2E4 of #SecretArmy, Trapped! Monique gets shot at a railway checkpoint! Can LifeLine get her out of hospital before Kessler arrives to interrogate her?! secretarmypod.podbean.com/e/series-2-e...

So on our #EurovisionQueens podcast we correctly predicted 9 of the 10 qualifiers from SF1 including #Belgium not making it. You can listen to our #Eurovision2025 preview episodes here: soundcloud.com/eurovisionqu...

All 5 of our #Eurovision2025 preview episodes are now out. You can listen to them wherever you get podcasts! pca.st/episode/c062...

Join your #EurovisionQueens for the first of 5 episodes previewing this year’s #Eurovision Song Contest in #Basel. This time: the first half of Semi-Final 1. #ESC25 pca.st/episode/a857...

Sad to hear that the unassuming and beautiful actor Damien Thomas has died, best known for playing the cunning Father Alvito in the original Shogun and suave wheeler-dealer in Tenko. I got to know him pretty well and he was a completely lovely guy.

I guest with the lovely @SecretArmyPod.bsky.social & @AndyPodding.bsky.social on Down the Line, talking about one of the best episodes of a great series: Secret Army – Good Friday Don’t you want to hear us on cruelly funny Kessler, Passion Plays, chosen names, Kate Bush and more? “Deny it again.”

Please tell us your thoughts on S2E5, Not According to Plan by Weds 16th and we’ll read them out on the show! Francois’ first ep - his and Natalie’s train gets bombed! Vercors wants to expand communist operations - by Max taking over lifeline! And Kessler investigates a blind music teacher!

Happy new episode day!🥂 This time: S2E3, Lucky Piece. Does Major Bradley cuddle cats? And who sleeps where in the Candide?! Andy & AJ discuss all this and more! Listen online or wherever you get your podcasts! @andypodding.bsky.social secretarmypod.podbean.com/e/series-3-e...

For all my #Eurovision followers - our latest pod celebrates our 10 favourite songs that didn’t make it through to this year’s contest in #Basel. Some proper bangers and great ballads in there! Episode: ‘Eurovision 2025: The Ones We Lost’ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e.... #Eurovision2025

Reacting to Irelands 2025 Eurovision entry | Emmy - Laika Party

Tommy Cash Eurovision Reaction

To celebrate finishing the first edit of Lucky Piece, here’s a teaser from the upcoming episode! 🎯 🤣 @andypodding.bsky.social

Yes we flipping are! Yay us. And thanks to all our listeners! Xx

Today Andy and I are celebrating a big milestone; 10,000 downloads of our podcast! Thanks for listening and being such wonderful supporters of what we do. 🥂🍾 @andypodding.bsky.social

<New podcast episode> Listen to our review of all the songs in the #Mello final. Will Mans or Klara make it through to #Eurovision2025 or can Kaj aka the sauna boys do it? on.soundcloud.com/xZLToSSTbSXc... #Eurovision #Mello2025 #Melodifestivalen #Melfest #Melfest2025 #Kaj #Sweden #MansZelmerlow

Happy new episode day!🥂 This time we have an interview with the fabulous #ConstantineGregory. He played Ivan - one of the Russians in S2E2, Russian Roulette! We chatted about his extraordinary family history, and his career as an actor & dialect coach. secretarmypod.podbean.com/e/interview-...

<New episode> Your #EurovisionQueens preview Dansk Melodi Grand Prix - Denmark’s national selection show. We pick our 4 favourites and assess their chances at #Eurovision in #Basel podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Had a wonderful time recording with @andypodding.bsky.social and @josephlidster.bsky.social this afternoon! So much discussion, laughter, and joy. Thanks for joining us, Joe!

@markreckons.bsky.social really enjoyed your reflections on Running Scared on Looks Unfamiliar

Soon on ‘Down the Line: a Secret Army podcast’ we will be reviewing Trapped - the one in which Monique is shot and Lifeline must mount a daring rescue before Kessler arrives. It also introduces the enigmatic Madeleine Duclos. Please reply with your thoughts on this episode…

📢 Podcast news! Our next ep, on 1st March, is an interview with the fabulous Constantine Gregory! In Secret Army he played Ivan, one of the Russians in S2E2, Russian Roulette. We chatted about his extraordinary family history, and his career as an actor & dialect coach! @andypodding.bsky.social