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It’s the last podcast of The Benji and Nick Show. The boys and special guests Jamie and Shelley thank each and every one of you for your support, suggestions and banter. Emails to podcast @nicholasbriggs.com

This week on The Benji and Nick Show, the boys and special guest, Shelley, chat about The Sandbaggers, amongst other things. The Sandbaggers is a British spy drama television series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. First broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect

This week on The Benji and Nick Show, the boys and Shelley have been watching A Very Peculiar Practice. Broadcast in 1986 and 1988, A Very Peculiar Practice is a surreal black-comedy drama set in the health centre of a British university starring Peter Davison as idealistic young doctor, Stephen Daker. Emails to podcast@nicholasbriggs.com

In the next The Benji and Nick Show, Benji, Nick and Shelley have been watching A Family at War. Originally broadcast from 1970–1972, A Family at War is a British drama series that examines the lives of the lower middle-class Ashton family of the city of Liverpool and their experiences from 1938 through the Second

This week on The Benji and Nick Show, Benji and Shelley have been watching Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Based on the character Buck Rogers created in 1928 by Philip Nowlan featuring previously in comic strips, novellas, a film and on television and radio, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science-fiction

This week in The Benji and Nick Show, Nick and Shelley have been watching The Andromeda Strain, a 1971 American science fiction thriller film. Based on Michael Crichton’s 1969 novel of the same name, a team of scientists investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin. Emails to podcast@nicholasbriggs.com

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