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This week on The Benji and Nick Show, the boys and Shelley have been watching Jurassic Park, the 1993 science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the book by Michael Crichton. Set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off Central America’s Pacific Coast near Costa Rica, wealthy businessman John Hammond

ALL GOOD THINGS It is with huge regret that we’re announcing the end of The Benji and Nick Show podcast. Over the last few years, Benji Clifford, Nicholas Briggs and more recently, Shelley Dean, have delved into the worlds of vintage television – raved about what they love, moaned about what they hate and generally

This week on The Benji and Nick Show, Benji, Nick and special guest, Shelley, have been watching Under the Mountain, a 2009 New Zealand film directed by Jonathan King based on the 1979 novel by Maurice Gee. Teenage twins Rachel and Theo travel to Auckland to stay with relatives after their mother suddenly dies. They

This week on The Benji and Nick Show, the boys have been watching some of the many Public Information Films broadcast between 1945–2006 by the British Central Office of Information (COI). COI was established in 1946 when the Prime Minister announced that the wartime Ministry of Information would be closed down but that official information

This week on The Benji and Nick Show, the boys have been watching the British science fiction sitcom Hyperdrive. First broadcast on BBC Two in 2006, Hyperdrive is set in the years 2151 and 2152, and follows the crew of HMS Camden Lock as they stumble through their heroic mission to protect British interests in

In this week’s The Benji and Nick Show, Benji, Nick and Shelley finish their commentary (part 7) of Doctor Who: Inferno. The third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) has transported himself sideways in time to a parallel world where an English drilling project causes catastrophic amounts of heat and force to be unleashed when it penetrates the