My very special guest this week is screenwriter Raisah Ahmed who chose to talk to me about aliens, liminality and why Superman is an immigrant story.

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My very special guest this week is writer Philip Wright who chose to talk to me about kids' TV with banger theme tunes, professional wrestling and the 1999 Christmas episode of The Royle Family.

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My very special guest this week is writer Emma Lennox who chose to talk to me about Banjo, Bluey and bleak binge watch, Carnivale.

Subscribe to Emma's (excellent!) Substack, The Memory Hole, about the strange and unusual TV moments that scarred our psyches https://emmalennox.substack.com/

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My very special guest this week is podcaster Kevin Sherwin who chose to talk to me about TV musicals, reality TV and Broadway baby, Smash.

Required reading - How "Smash" Became TV's Biggest Train Wreck: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/how-smash-became-tvs-biggest-train-wreck

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My very special guest this week is writer Crystal Dawn Gallgher who chose to talk to me about having a parasocial relationship with Simon Amstell, the peak of Greek and slipping into a parallel world with the Sliders gang.

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My very special guest this week is writer Debbie Moon who chose to talk to me about flipping flops, 70s sci fi and tapping out with the Leverage gang.

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My very special guest this week is writer Chris Smyth who chose to talk to me about Cilla Black, Frasier vs. Friends and documentary filmmaking.

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My very special guest this week is journalist David Chipakupaku who chose to talk to me about Olivia Pope, UK vs. US TV and the very unfortunate phrase 'TARDussy'.

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My very special guest this week is writer Chris McCrudden who chose to talk to me about Victoria Wood, Columbo and aspiring to be absolutely fabulous.

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My very special guest this week is writer and performer Amy Mason who chose to talk to me about queers on TV, Che Diaz and that 90s show.

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My very special guest this week is writer Claire Biddles who chose to talk to me about taping Top of the Pops and her own lived experience of vampirism.

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My very special guest this week is bestselling author and screenwriter Juno Dawson who chose to talk to me about how queer people are like Furbies, what a huge nerd she is and the time Jenny Schecter killed a dog and ruined a woman's life as revenge for a bad review.

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My very special guest this week is writer Tasha Dhanraj who chose to talk to me about a crime-solving devil, I'm a Celeb and how to sell makeup to men.

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My very special guest this week is writer, artist and Time Lord Garry Mac who chose to talk to me about queer temporality, seeing yourself reflected in reality TV and the time Russell T Davies killed off the entire cast of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

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My very special guest this week is writer Niki Rooney who chose to talk to me about McFly, air traffic controllers and what a 90s TV robot can teach us about humanity.

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My very special guest this week is writer and trans historian Morgan M Page who chose to talk to me about Canadian TV, the teen drama which best reflects her own adolescence and the mind-bending adventures of Joan and Nwad.

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My very special guest this week is writer and journalist Shaun Kitchener who chose to talk to me about big juicy plots, soapy stunts and being mugged off.

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My very special guest this week is Richard Flynn, a writer and poet from Glasgow, who chose to talk to me about wrestling, reality TV and the unbearable loneliness of being Marge Simpson.

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