On Location

About On Location

On Location is a companion podcast to the annual magazines Location International and Location California, bringing you inside stories from location shoots around the world. We talk to location managers, actors, producers and film commissioners, about the thrills – and the challenges – of filming On Location. On Location is presented by Julian Newby, editor of Location International and Location California magazines.

Publisher

Boutique Media International

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Oct 2023

Latest episode

2 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Oct 2026

   Passport Properties with Billy Nash: visiting the home of Lisa Gherardini, or Lisa del Giocondo… or as we all know her, Mona Lisa

   In this edition of On Location, we welcome back a friend of the podcast, Billy Nash, the Florida-based luxury real-estate broker and presenter of the series Passport Properties With Billy Nash. When we were last speaking with Billy on the podcast, the series had not seen daylight. But in the year since Billy and distributor, Blue Ant Media, first took the show to the international content market MIPCOM in Cannes, a lot has changed. Outside of the US, the series has been licensed to netw...

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   From Bill & Ted to J-Lo, and beyond: the action-packed career of LA-based location manager Jason Wisch

   In this episode of the On Location podcast, Julian Newby talks to LA-based location manager Jason Wisch about everything from Bill & Ted to J-Lo. Of all his achievements in a career spanning directing, producing and location managing in film, video and commercials, what impressed us the most was the revelation that Jason played the back of Bill’s (Alex Winter) head in the Circle K scene in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure! Born and raised in Los Angeles, he has been in the entertainme...

3. 

   31 Aug 2026

   How Tom Hanks became weightless in Apollo 13. And other reasons why filmmakers choose to film in Houston, Texas

   In this edition of the On Location podcast, Julian Newby meets Alfred Cervantes, vice-president and executive director of the Houston Film Commission. In his pre-film commission days Cervantes worked on a number of productions that featured Houston as a location, including 1995’s Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks. In the podcast he explains how the Howard achieved the weightless scenes in the movie – using NASA's KC-135 aircraft, famously nicknamed the Vomit Comet by ca...

Who has been a guest on On Location

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Andy Fry
• Andri Ómarsson
• Professor Bettany Hughes
• Niall O’Shea
• Simon Pegg

Reach and audience

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 18 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

23

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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