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War Movie Theatre

War Movie Theatre

By: Robert Hutton & Duncan Weldon
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 Like an old war film? So do authors Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon, who get together with celebrity chums to watch the classics of land, sea and air to see how they stand up today. What’s still great? What’s dated? Who’s the least believable German? Find out in the new season of the podcast formerly known as A Pod Too Far.

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  • Biggles: Adventures In Time - with Mark Wallace

    Biggles: Adventures In Time - with Mark Wallace
    Nov 20 2025

    A beloved British hero, an evil German, a super-weapon, and... a time-travelling 1980s New York executive? How did everyone get it so wrong when it came to putting WW1 flying ace Biggles on the big screen? It was supposed to be a rival to Raiders of the Lost Ark, then it was going to be the new Back to the Future. In the end it was a war crime. And that's before we get to the music.


    Rob and Duncan are joined by Biggles fanboy Mark Wallace to discuss what might have been, why Biggles stories are far tougher than many people understand, and why a fictional pilot played a real role in the Battle of Britain.


    Next week: Gallipoli.

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    Suggestions? Comments? Drop us a line at warmovietheatre@gmail.com.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)

    All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
    Nov 13 2025

    Is this the war movie that explains all war movies? Rob and Duncan watch the first version of All Quiet On The Western Front, made barely a decade after the First World War ended. Somehow, it turns out to be a chance to talk about Starship Troopers again.


    [Apologies for a fat-finger error that led Rob to delete the first five minutes of this episode when we first uploaded it. All fixed now, we hope, and Duncan is working on a suitable punishment.]


    Next week, we continue Great War Month with Biggles.

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    Suggestions? Comments? Drop us a line at warmovietheatre@gmail.com.

    Visit us at facebook.com/WarMovieTheatre or on Bluesky and Twitter.

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    54 mins
  • 1917 Live at the Imperial War Museum - with John Crace

    1917 Live at the Imperial War Museum - with John Crace
    Nov 6 2025

    Live from the Imperial War Museum's Podcast Festival, we kick off Great War Month by watching Sam Mendes's men-with-a-mission trench-running bonanza, 1917, with John Crace of the Guardian.


    Is this the operation that changed the course of the Great War? Should they have searched that farmhouse? Might there, in fact, be a better way to get the message through? All this and more.

    Help us out by doing our listener survey: http://bit.ly/warmovietheatre-survey


    Suggestions? Comments? Drop us a line at warmovietheatre@gmail.com.

    Visit us at facebook.com/WarMovieTheatre or on Bluesky and Twitter.

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    55 mins
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