Screenshot
Hosted by Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode · BBC Radio 4
4.8from 172 ratings
- 128
- Episodes
- 19
- Transcribed
- 172
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Screenshot
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode guide us through the expanding universe of the moving image, revealing fascinating links and hidden gems from cinema and TV to streaming and beyond.
- Publisher
- BBC Radio 4
- Category
- tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Nov 2021
- Latest episode
- 7 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
19 of 128 episodes have a transcript.
7 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Male Friendship
31 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Male Friendship
Published 7 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yes. And as was pointed out in that interview, war movies are as old as cinema itself. It's one of the kind of eternal stories is the war movie. And why? Because it is a way of showing men being friends without them having to have a conversation in which they say, you're my best friend. It's rather, you know, that they're going over the top together. Yeah, I think there's something slightly different going on, though, in the cop movie and the buddy movie that's adjacent to that that Matt was talking about. He made this distinction between the ones that happen in the workplace where this odd couple are together because they've just been chucked together by circumstance, and then the sort of deeper vulnerable things that are going on when it's a film about actual friends. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Matt Schimkowitz
- Bruce Robinson
- Jack Rooke
- Kim Newman
- John Sayles
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 33 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 139 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100
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- Quality
- 78
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 96
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Who hosts Screenshot?
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode host the show. Published by BBC Radio 4.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
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