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In this interview my buddy Daz from Back to the Future The Musical Fans Facebook page and I interview movie music legend Alan Silvestri. Alan is currently working on the stage musical version of everyones favourite time travel movie. In this chat he tells us about the process of getting the show from concept to stage, the bumps along the way and the thrill of opening night first in Manchester then in London.

We also took the opportunity to ask Alan about his other work including scoring THAT Tony Stark scene in Avengers Endgame!

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This interview is also available as a video on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R0yeVymoy8&t=1894s

Back to the Future The Musical is now showing at the Adelphi Theatre in London. Purchase tickets here https://www.backtothefuturemusical.com/

In this episode I chew the fat with Robert Macnaughton, star of the 1982 mega hit ET The Extra Terrestrial. We chat about the movie and plenty of other things including being at Harrison Fords house!

Robert MacNaughton (born December 19, 1966) is an American actor.

He is best known for his role as Elliott's brother Michael in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, for which he won a 1982 Young Artist Award as Best Young Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.

MacNaughton also played the lead role of Adam Farmer in the 1983 film I Am the Cheese, based on the young adult novel by Robert Cormier.

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This interview was recorded in 2019

Mark Marshall worked at Lucasfilm in the late 70s and early 80s and was Steven Spielbergs assistant at Amblin Entertainment in the 80s. Mark and I have an incredible chat about his experiences from the production and release of The Empire Strikes Back and he also shares stories from working with Steven Spielberg ,being on set of Back to the Future and many many more stories. This is part 1 of a 2 part episode.

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In this hilarious episode I chat with one of the worlds funniest comedians, Bill Bailey. Bill stars along side Idris Elba in Sky One comedy In The Long Run which returns for series two on Wednesday 16th October. We chat about the show, his comedy, VCRs, Twitter spats and a ton of other stuff.

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Listen to me chat with Karyn Parsons about growing up in Santa Monica, her role as Hilary in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, her new book How High the Moon and Sweet Blackberry.

Parsons starred as Hilary Banks on the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which aired on NBC from 1990 to 1996. She co-created, co-produced, co-wrote, and co-starred on the Fox sitcom Lush Life in 1996, which was later canceled after four episodes. In 2001, she starred in the critically acclaimed but short-lived television series The Job with Denis Leary. Besides television, Parsons has starred in several films, particularly in comedies such as Late Nights (1992), Major Payne (1995), and The Ladies Man (2000). Parsons is the creator of Sweet Blackberry, a line of animated films about unsung black heroes. The first in the series is about Henry "Box" Brown, a slave who mailed himself to freedom.

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I chat with Julie Ann Emery about her career, growing up and Star Wars! Julie began her career at the age of 16 and has appeared in several stage productions, such as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Bye Bye Birdie. She has appeared in films and television series such as ER, CSI: Miami, Taken, Commander in Chief, Line of Fire, Hitch, and Fargo. She played recurring character Betsy Kettleman in the first season of Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul. In 2017, Emery joined the main cast for the second season of the television series Preacher, in the role of Lara Featherstone.

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I chat with 80s chart topping legend Paul Young about his music, Live Aid, Nelson Mandella and why his version of Everytime You Go Away wasn't used at the end of Planes Trains and Automobiles!

Paul Antony Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, he was turned into a 1980s teen idol by subsequent solo success. His hit singles include "Love of the Common People", "Wherever I Lay My Hat", "Come Back and Stay", "Every Time You Go Away" and "Everything Must Change", all reaching the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart. Released in 1983, his debut album No Parlez, the first of three UK number-one albums, made him a household name. His smooth yet soulful voice belonged to a genre known as "blue-eyed soul". At the 1985 Brit Awards, Young received the award for Best British Male. Associated with the Second British Invasion of the US, "Every Time You Go Away" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985. It also won Best British Video at the 1986 Brit Awards.

In July 1985, Young appeared at Live Aid held at Wembley Stadium, London, performing the Band Aid hit "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (having sung the opening lines on the original single release), and his own hits "Come Back and Stay" and "Every Time You Go Away", with Alison Moyet joining him on stage to perform "That's The Way Love Is". Since the mid-1990s, Young has performed with his band Los Pacaminos.

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I have made it to 50 episodes! And what a way to mark the occasion! On this episode I don't have 1 guest. I don't have 2 guests. I have 3 guests! In this Flash Gordon special I speak to Lisa Downs, Producer and Director of the Life After Flash documentary. I also speak to Melody Anderson, who played Dale Arden in flash Gordon. and I also speak to Flash himself, Sam J Jones. In wide ranging conversations we celebrate our love of this fantastic movie! Special thanks to Lisa Downs for setting up the conversation with Melody.

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In this episode I speak with the cast and co producer of The Shark Is Broken. 'You’re gonna need a bigger boat.' Jaws, Martha’s Vineyard 1974: three iconic actors, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss, are tortuously confined together on the Orca while filming, enduring endless delays, studio politics, foul weather and a constantly broken mechanical shark called Bruce. Conversation deteriorates into actor insecurities, competing egos, petty rivalry and excess alcohol consumption. Written by Joseph Nixon and Ian Shaw (Robert Shaw’s son) inspired by his father’s diaries, this hilarious world premiere offers startling insights into the backstage Hollywood truths behind one of the greatest blockbusters of all time. Director: Guy Masterson.

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I chat with the lovely Harriet Thorpe, one of the UKs great stage and screen actresses who has been in flipping loads of things including Absolutely Fabulous, French and Saunders and of course The Brittas Empire. And Harriet is on a mission! She is campaigning to BRING BACK BRITTAS! And get The Brittas Empire on Netflix. And we can all help out, get online and check out @bringBKbrittas. Lets do it! the Brittas Empire was s such a great show and Harriet and I chat about it here.

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