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Robert Hutton & Duncan Weldon 2026
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    A Few Good Men - with Hadley Freeman
    You want answers? You think you're entitled? You can't handle the truth! This week we're marking the death of Rob Reiner by watching the closest thing he made to a war movie: A Few Good Men. Was Tom C...
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    • 8 months ago
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    Gallipoli - with Chris Kempshall
    Peter Weir's 1981 Gallipoli set both him and Mel Gibson on a path to Hollywood glory, and also helped establish the popular narrative for a campaign that is crucial to Australia's national identity. W...
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    • 9 months ago
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    All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
    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 ou...
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    • 10 months ago
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    Is Paris Burning - with Karim Palant
    Zut alors! This week we're popping over the Channel to watch the Frenchest war movie ever made, the true story of the frantic arguments on both sides about how to save - or destroy - the city. Featuri...
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    • 11 months ago
    01:04:17
    Classic Episode: King Rat
    Over August, we're replaying old episodes while we record some new ones. This is one from 2023 where we watched a film we hadn't seen before and which really stayed with us, a depiction of hunger, bet...
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    • 1 year ago
    30:35
    Prisoner of War - with Phil Tinline
    In what is surely the most obscure episode of any podcast ever recorded, Rob and Duncan are joined by author and documentary-maker Phil Tinline to watch 1954's "Prisoner of War", the film that was goi...
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    • 1 year ago
    01:09:14
    Five Graves to Cairo
    Rob and Duncan watch the 1943 film that promised to tell audiences the secret story of British victory in the desert. That was not in any sense true, but unknown to the filmmakers, this movie would in...
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    • 1 year ago
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    Das Boot - with James Landale
    Rob and Duncan are joined by Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale to pick noses, smell farts, and torpedo Allied shipping in the greatest submarine movie ever made, Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 Das Boot...
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    • 1 year ago
    01:20:08
    Mosquito Squadron - with John Crace
    Rob and Duncan are joined by John Crace, sketchwriter for The Guardian, to watch Mosquito Squadron, a film John's dad took him to see in the cinema. Is this the perfect example of the less-than-golden...
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    • 1 year ago
    55:08
    Dunkirk (1958) with Joe Twyman
    Following listener outrage after we watched Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, we're watching Leslie Norman's 1958 version, starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough. Joining us is pollster Joe Twyman, w...
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    • 1 year ago
    53:10
    I Was Monty's Double
    This week Rob and Duncan pretend to be Duncan and Rob, in an elaborate plan to persuade the enemy that the podcast will actually be taking place in the Mediterranean. That's right, we're watching I Wa...
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    • 1 year ago
    42:07
    Saving Private Ryan – with special guest Mark Urban
    Watching the war movies that stiffened our upper lips, with authors Rob Hutton and Duncan Weldon. This time: The mission is the man, and the cast is (literally) to die for. Steven Spielberg’s emotiona...
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    • 2 years ago
    50:52
    The Train – with special guest James Landale
    Watching the war movies that made men* of us, with authors Rob Hutton and Duncan Weldon. This time: Is a work of art worth a life? All right, what about a podcast then? This week we’re watching The Tr...
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    • 2 years ago
    43:08
    Enemy At The Gates – with special guest John Niven
    Watching the war movies that stiffened our upper lips, with authors Rob Hutton and Duncan Weldon. This time: Jude Law is a young Russian sniper in the somewhat messy yet highly entertaining ‘Enemy At ...
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    • 2 years ago
    42:31
    Merrill’s Marauders
    It’s 1944, and Rob Hutton and Duncan Weldon are trying to take the podcast 750 miles through the Burmese jungle for reasons that no one can really explain to them.This week we’re watching the 1962 mov...
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    • 2 years ago
    38:49
    King Rat
    It’s 1945, and as the war draws to a close, Rob Hutton and Duncan Weldon are just trying to stay alive in a Japanese POW camp by trading pieces of the podcast for food.We’re watching King Rat, the 196...
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    • 2 years ago
    29:54
    Ice Cold in Alex
    June 1942. Tobruk has fallen, Rob Hutton and Duncan Weldon struggle to get their podcast back through the desert to Alexandria where a barman is keeping a chilled bottle of Carlsberg for them.This wee...
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    • 2 years ago
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