Author Archives: "SH"

In the next exciting release of The Benji and Nick Show, the boys will be discussing Special Branch, a television police drama series following the anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police. Special Branch was broadcast on ITV from 1969–74.    

In The Benji and Nick Show this week, the boys are discussing New Scotland Yard, a police drama series produced for the ITV network and broadcast between 1972 and 1974. It features the activities of two officers from the Criminal Investigations Department of the Metropolitan Police force (based at New Scotland Yard) who solve extraordinary,

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 Originally made in colour, only black and white telerecordings still exist.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