After an extended break, Soho Bites is finally back with episode 48. We talk to film producer, Colin Vaines, about the superb Mona Lisa (1986) and Prof Oliver Carter joins us to talk about his research into the history of the British porn industry sohobitespodcast.com/episode/soho...

Ease your New Year hangover with “Murder at the Windmill” (1949) at 8:00am on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tomorrow. We covered it in episode 14 and also spoke to a real Windmill girl, Jill Millard Shapiro, about how she got her start at that famous venue. sohobitespodcast.com/episode/14

You can catch the gritty 1960 Soho noir "The Shakedown" on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tomorrow at 2:55am (maybe pop a tape in!) We spoke to @rmgluck2017.bsky.social, film critic of the New European (as it was then) way back in episode 20 sohobitespodcast.com/episode/20 youtu.be/TodW88fz4Rc

Over the years there have only been two Soho Bites Christmas specials - one of the films is brilliant and very wholesome and the other is terrible and borderline depraved... 1/3

The greatest terrible Soho film of all time is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 4:20am tomorrow - “Soho Conspiracy” (1950). The whole TPTV podcast team came on episode 16 to talk about it & Adrian Smith returned to tell us about the film's notoriously crooked producer, EJ Fancey 1/3

Following the controversy over the edited Trump speech, the BBC has been lambasted for its negative and biased portrayal of the leader of a prominent right-wing government… An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.

And here’s #KinoQuickies podcast as companion, in which @domdelargy.bsky.social @norloll.bsky.social & I discuss the film & its genesis: www.kinoquickies.com/episode/12-s... #Scrooge #SeymourHicks #Scrooge1935 #AChristmasCarol #Dickens

In the wee small hours tomorrow (4:50am!) the brilliant “Where Has Poor Mickey Gone?” (1964) is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social. We spoke to Dr Adrian Smith of Sussex University about it back in episode 11 and, on the day the Covid lockdown began, met jazz singer David Tughan at Ronnie Scotts 1/3

Another classic Soho film is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tomorrow at 1:05pm - the Rashomon inspired courtroom drama “The Boys” (1962). @movietrubs.bsky.social & the South Bank Talkies group came on the show to talk about it in way back in episode 23... 1/2

Film4 doesn’t only show Mission Impossible films. Tomorrow at 2:55pm it’s the impossibly good, “The Fallen Idol” (1948). It's not actually a Soho film, but talking to the film’s star on his 84th birthday for episode 42 was too good an opportunity to miss sohobitespodcast.com/episode/42

I recorded an interview today with Professor Oliver Carter of @mybcu.bsky.social in the #MuseumofSoho gallery, talking about the history of Soho's illicit trade in... ahem... films for grown-ups. The conversation will feature in the first episode of the newly relaunched podcast early in the new year

See one of BBC radio's early stars, Richard "Stinker" Murdoch on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 5am tomorrow in "It Happened in Soho" (1948). Our guest when we spoke about this back in ep 34 was @paulkerensa.bsky.social, host of @bbcentury.bsky.social podcast www.sohobitespodcast.com/episode/34

I just caught the end of the 1958-1959 ‘Dial 999’ TV series on highly esteemed UK channel Talking Pictures TV. ‘DIAL 999’ was produced by Harry Alan Towers. “Now there,” as I wrote in my 2014 blog about him, “was a man with a life like a movie plot”…

I'm a guest on this episode of #ReelBritannia podcast. It's worth a listen if only to hear Glynis Johns referring to her "buzzy" on several occasions.

After a long absence, Soho Bites will be returning in the New Year! Hurrah! In preparation for an interview for the next episode, I'm reading a scholarly article about pornography. Does it make me very immature to find this citation funny? #ooer #fnaarfnaar sohobitespodcast.com

I'd never heard of this Wardour St institution. Interesting piece by @mikepress.bsky.social & Jackie Hopfinger on the always interesting Walk on the Wild Side side substack.

As usual I spent the weekend working on the @theobserveruk.bsky.social Slow Newscast - the story of @evawiseman.bsky.social's sister's search for a bone marrow doner which felt very close to home because this also happened in my family recently open.spotify.com/episode/3r2y... 1/2

Some lovely footage of racially diverse old Soho in this. Shame it was posted by a proper gammon but the commenters don't let him off the hook. www.thepoke.com/2025/09/01/a...

Get up early tomorrow for "It Happened in Soho" on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 4:50am. Many moons ago, @paulkerensa.bsky.social came on the show to talk about it and we also met up with comedy writer, Mark Brisenden to hear about the much loved Paris Studios. tv-films.co.uk/film/it-happ...

More info about one of #Soho 's most famous characters and this week's #SlowNewcast about him.

THREAD: You may have noticed that there hasn’t been an episode of Soho Bites for many months now. This is because, now that I’m freelance, I have to prioritise work that pays and, sadly, Soho Bites just doesn’t do that 1/3

A Soho classic is back on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tomorrow at 11:40am - #CoverGirlKiller (1959). We spoke to Luke Dixon about in back in episode 17: sohobitespodcast.com/episode/17 & the great @farndale.bsky.social also dropped in to talk about smut. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-19...

Very sad to hear the news that Barry Fantoni died last month. Baz made several contributions to the podcast including talking about "Smashing Time" in episode 19: sohobitespodcast.com/episode/19. I hope he managed to hang on until after 5pm on the day he died for one last G&T.

There's a fun but terrible film on tonight on "Together TV" (Freeview 83, Sky 170, Virgin 136, Freesat 162) at 10pm - "Zeta One" (1969). We discussed it with the magnificent @farndale.bsky.social back in episode 35 The film is bad, the guest is good... sohobitespodcast.com/episode/35.

If you love a quickie (ooer vicar), tune in to @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tomorrow at 7:10am for the magnificent "The Ghost Camera" (1933). It was the film we discussed with @pamhutch.bsky.social in the first ep of Kino Quickies and is completely brilliant. kinoquickies.com/episode/01-t...

Don’t have your Saturday lie-in tomorrow - set an alarm & watch Murder at the Windmill (1949) at 6am on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social instead. It’s quite cheesy but @drellenwright.bsky.social loves cheese so was the perfect guest to talk about it back in episode 14 sohobitespodcast.com/episode/14

Great Soho film on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today at 2:50pm - "The Boys" (1960). Four young men go on trial for murder & we see the events unfold in flashback from several POVs. We covered it back in episode 23 & also spoke to one of the original 1970s punks sohobitespodcast.com/episode/23

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Part 3 of the Soho pub series from @alondoninheritance.bsky.social

This is sad! @londonlivenews.bsky.social was a great channel with some unique programmes and some really interesting and unusual film choices.

Well I deleted the Soho Bites Twitter account today. It's very liberating.

Unlike many London websites full of clickbait rubbish ("we tried the 5 best burgers in London. You'll be amazed which one was third...") @londonermag.bsky.social is full of proper journalism. I just hope it doesn't turn out to be funded by Russian oligarchs or Elon Musk. www.the-londoner.co.uk

A couple of weeks ago I took the plunge and added the Soho Bites Podcast feed to YouTube and am amazed at the number of views of what are essentially audio podcasts with a single image! Who'd of thunk it? Fellow podcasters - I recommend you do the same...

Happy to report that a plaque has been installed in St Paul's Covent Garden in remembrance of John Hester who served as the unconventional Rector of Soho in the years before the big clean-up. We spoke to John's son, Alex, about his dad waaaay back in episode 7. sohobitespodcast.com/episode/07

Don't dilly or dally, Watch “Tales From Tin Pan Alley”... ...tomorrow at the Phoenix Arts Club - well worth a watch. phoenixartsclub.com/events/tales...

Can anybody identify this location? Maybe somewhere behind Tate Britain? A bonus point for naming the film (this might be one for you @retroramblings.bsky.social) although I do know the answer to that one...

Watch this surprisingly effective quickie version of "A Christmas Carol" today at 9:30am. @norloll.bsky.social & I discussed it in our Kino Quickies Xmas special 2 years ago with @minghowriter.bsky.social followed by some carousing led by the great #GaryYershon. kinoquickies.com/episode/12-s...

A Christmas Eve Soho treats awaits us when @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social screens "Murder at the Windmill" (1949) at 7:35am. We spoke to @drellenwright.bsky.social about it back in ep 14 & we also met up with an actual real life Windmill girl, Jill Millard Shapiro. sohobitespodcast.com/episode/14

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A rather magical visit to the House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster. At a meeting there today I was surprised to learn that the UK's automotive, aerospace and life sciences industries are all smaller, even when all three are added together, than the UK's creative industries.

A day in the life..