All of television history is contained within the Box of Delights. TV journalist Julia Raeside invites her guests to choose a favourite TV memory and take another look at it, say what it meant to them, and what it means to them now.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
Box of Delights
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All of television history is contained within the Box of Delights. TV journalist Julia Raeside invites her guests to choose a favourite TV memory and take another look at it, say what it meant to them, and what it means to them now.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Recent Episodes
December 11, 2025
BUMPER CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: A Castle for Christmas
<p>Julia is joined by Scottish giant (often mistaken for hot Santa) Stephen Oswald who tells her all about filming the excessively festive Netflix movie, A Castle for Christmas.</p><br><p>It was lockdown, 2020, and an obsession with knitting was about to take a hold of the plucky thespian as he travelled back to his native Scotland for 3 months to film with a bunch of similarly confused actors and Brook Shields! This one is quite a (sleigh) ride.</p><br><p>If you're looking for a podcast episode to put you in a Christmas mood, step right up.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
December 4, 2025
The X Files, Eugene Tooms
<p>The brilliant author, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hattiewilliamswrites/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hattie Williams</a>, joins Julia to recount her early experiences watching The X Files on BBC Two.</p><br><p>No 9-year-old should see the things she's seen, but she finds the show's serial killer - Eugene Tooms - more funny than frightening now. Remember the yellow-eyed lurker who lived in nests made of his own lick and slithered through sewage pipes in search of his next victim?</p><br><p>Well, Hattie does in great, gratuitous detail.</p><br><p>Her gripping debut novel -<a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/bitter-sweet-the-intoxicating-razor-sharp-debut-book-club-read-for-2025-everyone-is-talking-about-hattie-williams/c4edafecbc6a93c3?ean=9781398722804&next=t" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Bitter Sweet</a> - is out now in hardback and is totally unputdownable.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
November 28, 2025
Short-lived BBC soap Eldorado
<p>Journalist and author Michael Hogan reminisces with Julia about the blink-and-you'll-miss-it BBC soap opera Eldorado. A costly experiment for the BBC which built a small village in which to shoot the sun-soaked Spanish saga that only ran for a year in the early nineties.</p><br><p>Julia's never really gotten over the cancellation of Wogan to make way for it and for what?</p><br><p>Michael's brilliantly witty and twisty debut cosy crime novel - <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-dogwalkers-detective-agency/michael-hogan//9781405977951?sv1=affiliate&sv_campaign_id=531573&awc=3787_1764096254_e23bf04450bf09eb558448ca2cd7c807&utm_source=531573&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=https%3A%2F%2Fshopforward.nl%2F" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Dog Walkers' Detective Agency</a> - is out now and available in paperback.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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