The latest video from friend of the show, @stevehayestoq.bsky.social is out today 📽️📽️

Great article by @melissa-blease.bsky.social in the always brilliant @londonermag.bsky.social. We must find Barrie!

'Berwick Street Market, Soho' (c.1920s) by Rex Vicat Cole (Private Collection)

I sometimes regret leaving Xwitter where there was a bigger network and the show had more reach & followers etc, but then I see things like this in @privateeyenews.bsky.social and realise it was impossible to stay. Encourage your Xwitter using friends to join @bsky.app!

Treated myself to an early Christmas present ahead of next month's episode on the film, Bartleby (1970) #bartleby #hermanmelville #rogerwebb #1970sfilm #jonnytrunk

Recording at the Museum of Soho again today. Always interesting...

Some excellent charity shop purchases today.

Thank you MarkyM71 sohobitespodcast.com/review

Thread - films what I have done watched last week. All of them were excellent. Maybe number 5 not quite so much... 1:

📽️ If, like me, you enjoy Soho sci-fi with your cornflakes, make sure to catch “The Night Caller” (1965) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tomorrow at 6:15am. Doncaster’s favourite son @cevni.bsky.social of @househammerpod.bsky.social talked about it way back in ep 21 sohobitespodcast.com/episode/21

📽️ After announcing that our next film is #Bartleby (1970) it was brought to my attention that this is the name of a deceased horse in #TheArchers. Is there anybody out there who could summarise the horse's story? Wondering if it reflects that of Bartleby in the film. That would be very post modern.

The film we're taking about in our March episode is the brilliant "Bartleby" (1970). It has a glorious score by Roger Webb which is available on the Spotifies: open.spotify.com/album/2dv7LB...

I wonder. Or maybe it was just a common cockney / spivvy thing to say 📽️

Tomorrow on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 3:20pm: “Something in City” (1950) where a city gent leads a double life as a bohemian artist. We featured it in ep 24 and art historian #DavidBoydHaycock talked about a real life Soho bohemian artist, #AugustusJohn sohobitespodcast.com/episode/24

Ah, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social *and* @sohobites.bsky.social! Now there's a super-hero team-up any serious film fan should be excited about.

There’s a brilliant film on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight at 9.10pm - “Turn The Key Softly” (1953) starring Yvonne Mitchell, Kathleen Harrison & Joan Collins. We covered it in episode 32 and were honoured to have @minghowriter.bsky.social as our guest sohobitespodcast.com/episode/32

The film for ep 49 which landed today is “Noose” (1948). Josephine Botting from the #BFI comes in to talk about this Soho noir and we’re also joined by "Tired Old Queen at the Movies", @stevehayestoq.bsky.social to hear about one of the film’s stars, #CaroleLandis sohobitespodcast.com/episode/49

Episode 49 of Soho Bites is out on Friday this week. The film is the 1948 Soho noir, "Noose" starring #CaroleLandis, #JosephCalleia, #DerekFarr & #StanleyHolloway but the star of show is #NigelPatrick as the spiv with impeccable telephone manner, Bar Gorman sohobitespodcast.com

I received a message from a listener about Harry H Corbett after listening to the episode on "Cover Girl Killer": "Corbett was also a decent folk singer early on but his singing career hit the buffers with his dire take on the summer of love, “Flower Power Fred”... 1/3

Tomorrow at 4:30pm, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social are showing “Cover Girl Killer” starring Harry H Corbett in his pre-Steptoe days. Theatre director & Soho resident @doctorlukedixon.bsky.social joined us on episode 17 to talk about it. Full episode here: sohobitespodcast.com/episode/17

The film we're talking about in the February episode of Soho Bites is "Noose" (1948) - known as "The Silk Noose" in the US. This scene is just brilliant... sohobitespodcast.com #soho #filmnoir #carolelandis #stanleyholloway #ClassicFilm #tptv #TCM #VintageCinema #FilmPodcast #HollywoodHistory

Next month's featured film is "Noose" (1948) which stars Hollywood glamour girl, #CaroleLandis. Delighted that "Tired Old Queen at the Movies", @stevehayestoq.bsky.social came on the show to talk about her. Subscribe here and check your feeds in Feb: sohobitespodcast.com

I'm very much looking forward to meeting the magnificent @stevehayestoq.bsky.social this afternoon (remotely of course - I don't think ICE would let me into the US at the moment) to talk about "The Ping Girl" #CaroleLandis for the next episode of Soho Bites. Check your feeds in the first week of Feb

Thank you to @cottonmouthmcr.bsky.social and the other anonymous listeners who have donated at sohobitespodcast.com/donate this month. It warms the cockles of my shrivelled empty heart.

One of the great things about making Soho Bites is discovering films connected to the one I'm covering that I might not otherwise have seen. Currently watching "I Wake Up Screaming" (1941) which is an absolute belter!

The film we're discussing in the next episode is an austerity era post-war noir featuring a classic spiv and a major Hollywood star. The director is very keen to let you know where it's set...

This isn't just gossip. This is top grade Soho Bites gossip.

Get hip to the swinging beat cats daddio! Beat Girl (1960) is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tomorrow at 2:20am. We discussed the film, its fantastic music and, in this clip, the outrageous dialogue with Des Burkinshaw back in episode 37. Full episode here: sohobitespodcast.com/episode/37

Soho Bites episode 48 has just landed. In this excerpt, Professor Oliver Carter of Birmingham City University talks about the filming of the notorious montage scene in the brilliant "Mona Lisa" (1986). Full episode here: sohobitespodcast.com/episode/soho...

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