Soho Bites Podcast

Not a Humphry Bogart film.King of the Underworld (1952) stars Tod Slaughter as Terence Reilly - a master criminal who is always one step ahead of his arch nemesis, Inspector Morley...

I would prefer not to.Based on “Bartleby the Scrivener - A Story of Wall Street”, a short story by Herman Melville, Bartleby (1970) is the story of a young man at odds with the wor...

Spiv Noir.According to the billing, the stars of 1948's Noose (known as The Silk Noose in the US) are Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia & Derek Farr, but the real star of the film ...

After two years in the wilderness, we return to your ears with episode 48 and a brilliant film - Mona Lisa (1986).Directed by Neil Jordan and written by David Leland, it’s a noir t...

Bienvenue dans le premier épisode de 2024.Monsieur Ripois (1954) was directed by René Clément and stars the French heart throb, Gérard Philipe along with the English beauties, Joan...

Ching ching etc - it's the Soho Bites Christmas special.Having just left behind the wholesome world of Jessie Matthews and 1930s musicals, it feels right to descend into the grubby...

Jessie part three.For this, the third and final instalment of our mini-series about the 1930s' biggest UK film star, Jessie Matthews, we met up with Dr Jennifer Voss of De Mon...

Jessie part two.This is the second instalment of a three part mini-series about the 1930s' biggest UK film star, Jessie Matthews.Evergreen (1934) was based on Ever Green, CB C...

The Big Jessie series.This is the first of a three part mini-series focusing on the 1930s' biggest UK film star, Jessie Matthews.None of Jessie's films were set in Soho, but the fa...

Not a normal episode.We're not actually talking about a Soho film in this episode. It's a long story... We do, however, talk to a genuine film star from the golden era.As an eight ...

At last! It's the long awaited exotic birds episode.The Green Cockatoo (1937) is a noir-ish thriller set in gangland Soho. The Green Cockatoo of the title is not actually a beautif...

It's Jazz, man. Also, it's Shakespeare.All Night Long (1962) is a re-telling of Shakespeare's Othello in which Othello is Rex, the famous leader of a jazz band, Desdemona is a sing...