View From My Sofa with James May
4 October 2022 - 31 minsOur first guest, on this brand new podcast brought to you by Radio Times, is the one and only James May. Once the Captain Slow of BBC’s Top Gear – James and his two amigos, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, now famously travel the globe for Amazon Prime’s The Grand Tour. In this episode, James tells Kelly-Anne Taylor about the TV he watched as a child, the shows that made him the man he is today and how he uses the pause button on his remote to support his local pub. Plus, he gives us the real story of life on the road with Hammond and Clarkson – and he reveals how his uncharacteristically reckless driving in the current series of A Grand Tour landed him in a Scandinavian A&E Department....
Series Episodes
Smart TV: Lazarus, love triangles and a touch of Julia Roberts
Caroline Frost chats to guest host Garath McLean about the best things coming up on the box this week. TV: Lazarus, from Wednesday, Prime Video The Forsyte Saga, Monday 9pm, Channel 5 Leonard and Hungry Paul, Monday 10pm, BBC Two FROST BITE: Celebrity Traitors, BBC THE ARCHIVE:Moonlighting, STV Player . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
28 mins
16 October Finished
Smart TV: Sally Wainwright’s comeback and Hamza’s wild adventure
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week. You can get in touch with our hosts via email ([email protected]) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode. TV:Celebrity Traitors, BBC1Riot Women, BBC1Hamza’s Hidden Wild Isles, BBC1The Iris Affair, Sky Atlantic FROST BITE:Familiar faces in The Diplomat bring serious West Wing nostalgia THE ARCHIVE:The Great Philosophers (1987), BBC2 . . .Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
25 mins
10 October Finished
Smart TV: New Alan Partridge and Suranne Jones is everywhere
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week. You can get in touch with our hosts via email ([email protected]) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode. SHOW NOTES: TV: How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge), BBC1 Celebrity Traitors, BBC1 Frauds, ITV1 Film Club, BBC3 FROST BITE: ‘Worlds Apart’ movingly brings contestants, and viewers, together THE ARCHIVE: Robert Redford Night, BBC4 . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
23 mins
3 October Finished
Smart TV: Blue Lights and Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue
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22 mins
26 September Finished
Smart TV: Slow Horses and Strictly Return
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week. You can get in touch with our hosts via email ([email protected]) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode. SHOW NOTES: TV: The Hack, ITV1 Slow Horses, Apple TV+ Strictly Come Dancing, BBC1 FROST BITE: Teen dramas - why are so many older viewer tuning in? THE ARCHIVE: Arena, BBC4 . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
23 mins
19 September Finished
Smart TV: Rob and Rylan Return and Twiggy Doc
Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week. You can get in touch with our hosts via email ([email protected]) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode. SHOW NOTES: TV: Rob and Rylan’s Passage to India, BBC2 Twiggy, BBC2 Michael Palin in Venezuela, Channel 5 FROST BITE: How the PSBs are fighting back against Netflix, and why it matters THE ARCHIVE: Fawlty Towers: The Play, U&Gold . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
22 mins
12 September Finished
