Tea o'clock with Cella

In our fourth instalment of The Novel Without Men, we share our thoughts on Mary Shelley's brilliant dystopian novel: The Last Man.

Listen to us trying not to feel guilty about our guilty pleasures...

Join us to hear our thoughts on the spectacular Foe, starring Saoirse Ronan & Paul Mescal.

Join us as we debrief on the first episode on the new Ripley series on Netflix. Thank you for joining us again George.

In today’s episode we carry on with our The Novel Without Men series diving into the 18th Century by discussing work by Eliza Haywood and Charlotte Lennox. Enjoy! 

Episode details: 

3.28- What we’ve been consuming 

9.28- 18th Century Literature 

19.15-21.48 - Summary of Fantonima

21.48-24.29 - Summary of The Female Quixote 

24.29- First impressions 

29.31- General Discussion

55.03- Final Thoughts 

This week's extra brew is a bumper episode all about our New York trip, with the first part recorded in Central Park. We hope you enjoy our little run through of our jam-packed weekend!

Tune in to hear our thoughts on the heartbreaking film All of Us Strangers...

Welcome back to out mini series The Novel Without Men. 

This week we take a look at the sixteenth and seventeenth century writers setting the scene of the time period and looking specifically at Isabella do Morra and Aphra Behn. 

We hope you enjoy!

Episode details: 

3.31- What we’ve been consuming 

8.33- intro

14.34- Isabella do Morra 

37.24- other 16th century writers, Catherine Parr 

43.30- Marie de Gourney

46.43- Emilia Lanier

48.51- ‘Eve Bites Back’ 

49.46- Mary Roth 

52.26- Margaret Cavendish 

55.21- other 17th century writers, Catherine Phillips 

57.12- Elena Cassandra Tarabotti

59.12- Judith Drake 

1.00.56- Aphra Behn (Trigger warnings around 1.15.00-1.17.55)

In this episode we talk about our recent tarot card readings alongside all things magic and zodiac related.

Enjoy!

This week we are joined by Georgina to talk all things Saltburn! (we've been very excited about this one)

Join us as we chat about our predictions, those scenes, Brideshead Revisited connections, and much much more.

Enjoy!

Episode details:

2.55- Summary

3.57- Predictions

9.25- Oliver

16.53- Power dynamics

19.12- Farleigh

25.42- Romance/Desire

29.55- Influences

32.21- Writing and casting

33.52- Commercial attention

36.14- Indie films

38.46- Message (?)

40.16- Film making

49.22- Accents

51.58- Brideshead Revisited connections

58.03- Oliver's lie

1.02.00- Final thoughts

1.04.36- Blonde moment

Tune in if you wanna hear us talk about everything from dating to getting abs this year...

We're so excited to bring you the first instalment in our new mini-series, exploring women's writing through the years! We start over 4,000 years ago and travel to just before the Renaissance. Stay tuned for more episodes coming soon :)

We’re back with more extra brew and we’re staring off chatting about all the things we’re excited for this year from film and TV, to our competitive streak with our reading challenge. 

Enjoy!!

What's in the daily news? I'll tell you what's in the daily news... Guys & Dolls: an extraordinary production currently showing at The Bridge!

Our festive film episode is here! To end the year we watched Catering Christmas and A Brush With Christmas to bring some wholesome sweet festive vibes our way. 

Listen to us chat about tropes, gender dynamics, Wyatt’s arms (iykyk 😅), small town America, the obsession with peppermint hot chocolate and more! 🎄❄️

Enjoy listening and we’ll see you in the new year!! 

Episode details:

02.19- What We’ve Been Consuming

09.14- Films 

10.43-13.30- Catering Christmas Summary 

13.40-16.12- A Brush with Christmas Summary  

52.32- Blonde Moment 

2023 wrapped, but make it pop culture

Happy Christmas! Listen to our take on Netflix's latest Christmas release :)

Happy 100th episode to us! 🎉 Can you believe it we’ve made it to 100 episodes?!

To celebrate we’ve invited Georgina, Kira, and Ella M for a fun film club episode. We discuss a whole host of new films never before mentioned on the podcast so we hope you enjoy and take away a few recommendations too. 

Episode details: 

01:40 - Favourite Film

15:35 - Go to comfort film

34:32 - A film that makes you cry 

55:11 - Favourite film score - George 

58:58 - Character you relate to (TV) - Ella M 

01:03:02  - Childhood films - Kira & Ceri 

01:14:54 - Film that transports you to a different place - Ella 

01:18:18 - Favourite actors

We're back with another girlypop chat as we spill our celebrity crushes...

Listen to us chat all things Emily Henry with our Happy Place episode :)

🎃 👻 Happy Halloween 🎃 👻 

This year we’re going old school Halloween with a classic, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Listen to us discuss all things vampires and Victorian Gothic to get into the spooky mood. 

Episode details:

04.21- What we’ve been consuming 

09.42- Dracula

57.14- Blonde Moment 

Join us as we chat about our fav film of the year - Love at First Sight!

Our second Extra Brew episode is here and this time we have a candid chat about beauty and spreading love and compliments around.

It's time for the first Austen episode of the series. Join us as we discuss her 1815 novel Emma and its film counterparts. Enjoy!

Calling all Paul Mescal fans! Listen to our thoughts on Aftersun (2022) now :)

It's Colleen Hoover week, find out what we think of her writing, her characters, and the importance of telling these stories.

Let us know your thoughts via Instagram!

Episode details:

06.05 - What we’ve been consuming 

12.15 - Colleen Hoover 

37.02-45.42 - Game Time 

01.01.38 - Other Colleen Hoover books 

01.08.21 - Blonde Moment

Hi Barbie! Listen to us chat all things Barbie and feel the Kenergy

Join us as we talk all about our favourite beginnings and endings of films and books, the sad, happy, satisfying and maybe not so…

Let us know your faves too!

Hear our thoughts about a range of contemporary fiction, including Mr Salary; Cleopatra and Frankenstein; The Yellow Kitchen; Send Nudes; Daddy.

We're back for Series Four!

Join us (Ceri and Ella) as we chat about one of our fave play, Tennessee Williams' 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and the 2022/2023 Almeida Theatre production directed by Rebecca Frecknall starring Paul Mescal, Patsy Ferran, and Anjana Vasan.

Episode details:

05.25- What We've Been Consuming

12.17- A Streetcar Named Desire

35.46- Game Time (interval)

1.07.12- Blonde Moment

Join us for the Season 3 finale, where we chat all things children's literature! Hear us reminisce about our favourite children's books and share our thoughts on the Roald Dahl saga.

We're back with the second half of our book club questions. Listen in to hear us discuss our favourite time periods to read about, non-prose fiction, and who we think is the writer of our times.

Thank you again to George and Ella for joining us.

Happy listening!

All books mentioned are linked on our blog.

It's Book Club time!

The week we are joined by special guests Georgina and Ella to anwser a whole new set of book club questions.

all books mentioned are listed on our blog.

Happy listening and tune in next week for part 2!

Let's talkmusic babyy!! We chat about the new series Daisy Jones & The Six before moving on to the recording of Elton John at Dodger Stadium in 2022.

The week we’re heading back to our bookshelves for a literary episode talking about John Williams’ 1965 novel ‘Stoner,’ which follows the ups and downs in the life of an American University academic. 

We're back in part 2 to explore sexuality in Shakespeare's innovative play.

In this episode, we discuss gender in one of Shakespeare's problem plays (via the 2011 RSC production). Check back next week for part 2!

This week we take a bit of a departure from our usual topics and talk about the Netflix true crime film ‘The Good Nurse’.

Episode details:

01.30 - What We’ve Been Consuming

11.30 - Summary

13.05 - Discussion

38.45 - Blonde Moments

Apologies for the few small connection issues but we hope you still enjoy listening.

It's a very literary episode today as we delve into Richard Marsh's 'The Beetle' and Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. We talk all things science, sexuality, Victorian anxieties, and even more. Enjoy!

It's Benoit Blanc time! Tune in to hear us decipher the new Knives Out mystery: Glass Onion.

Happy New Year! 

We are kicking off the second half of series 3 with a rundown of our top 3 films and books of 2022. Enjoy! 

Episode Details:

03.28 – Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

07.03 – Norwegian Woods by Haruki Murakami

10.20 – It’s Kinda A Funny Story by Ned Villini

14.15 – Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

19.53 – It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

27.44 – I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

32.40 – Honourable Book Mentions

37.35 – The Batman dir. Matt Reeves

42.27 – Bullet Train dir. David Leitch

46.39 – Whiplash dir. Damian Chazelle

51.18 – Everything Everywhere All At Once dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

58.28 – Memento dir. Christopher Nolan

01.03.03 – Darjeeling Limited dir. Wes Anderson

01.09.59 – Honourable Film Mentions

Happy Christmas Eve! Join us for some festive quizzes in our final episode of the year.

Join us for our final festive film episode, where we discuss all things It's a Wonderful Life!

Another Christmas Netflix film today as we talk about Let it Snow (2019) a very heartwarming romantic ensemble Christmas film.

 Enjoy! 

It's time for our literary Christmas episode where we talk about the 'Vintage Christmas' collection of short stories and poems. 

On our second birthday we take a trip back to our roots chatting about the new Netflix Christmas film Falling for Christmas starring Linsay Lohan and Chord Overstreet. 

We're back again with another load of festive episodes! We kick things off by chatting about The Grinch (2018).