Monthly Archives: "December 2018"

Benji and Nick are taking a festive break, so instead of a podcast this week we’re featuring the pilot audiobook episode of a sci-fi political thriller set the day after tomorrow. Alien England is written and narrated by Nick. As the results of a general election come in and a new prime minister begins to

This week for The Benji and Nick Show, the boys have been watching the BBC TV adaptation of The Box of Delights. Based on the classic children’s novel by John Masefield (first published in 1935), the story follows the exploits of a young boy, Kay Harker, who finds himself drawn into a world of magic…

In the next The Benji and Nick Show, the boys discuss Escape Into Night, a six-part British TV serial broadcast on ITV in April/May 1972. Originally made in colour, only black and white telerecordings still exist. The serial, an adaptation of Catherine Storr’s novel Marianne Dreams, focuses on a young girl, Marianne, whose drawings become

In The Benji and Nick Show this week, the boys will be discussing London’s Burning – a British television drama series focused on the lives of the London Fire Brigade. London’s Burning began with a movie broadcast in 1986, followed by 14 series which ran from 1988–2002 on ITV.