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Graham reports on BBC 6 Music's State of Independent Venues Week which for once makes Leeds and York look great.

Graham and Chales share further thoughts on Bradford City of Culture's programme.

Charles reports on David Hockney’s exhibition at Saltaire in Bradford.

Succession actor Brian Cox is about to return to the stage for Edinburgh International Festival in a year of good news for the city's arts.

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In a packed podcast episode:

Graham asks if Netflix is really beating the BBC at the numbers of viewers game in the UK?

Graham and Charles have been listening to Mogwai's new album The Bad Fire and wonder why the band never quite hits the peaks.

Is new film The Brutalist just too brutally long?

Graham reports on the sold out Vinyl Sessions showdown with music author Rob Chapman talking about Syd Barrett and Nick Drake,

Plus a discussion about what music is good accompany sex and is Procul Harum's debut album in early 1968 the first prog album?

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Graham and Charles honour titan of US cinema David Lynch whose recent death at the age of 78 brings to an end the career of one of cinema and television’s true greats.

Graham asks if the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is a complete success.

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January and February are often the best months for new films but how good are critics’ favourites Nosferatu and A Real Pain?

Graham looks at the recent launch of Bradford as this year's City of Culture and the way the City of Culture idea has evolved since it was first launched in 2013 by the Tory government from an idea in 2009 by the then Labour government's Culture Secretary Andy Burnham.

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Graham and Charles interview Grant McPhee, a Scottish film director, cinematographer and writer.

Books:

Two oral histories of Scottish indie music history - Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984), published by White Rabbit Books in 2022, and Postcards From Scotland: Scottish Independent Music 1983-1995 published by Omnibus Books in 2024.

The latter was 2024's Book of the Year on Two Big Egos in a Small Car.

Films:

Grant has made two successful music documentaries on Scottish indie music history - Big Gold Dream (2015 - focusing on Scottish indie record labels Fast Product and Postcard Records), Teenage Superstars (2017 - focusing on the Glasgow independent music scene between 1982 and 1992).

He won the prestigious audience choice award in 2015 for his film Big Gold Dream at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

He was Second Assistant Camera on the Hollywood movie World War Z and Digital Imaging Technician on Under The Skin,among many other film jobs.

Last year saw Grant serving as 2nd Unit Director on two episodes of hit TV series Outlander.

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Graham discusses how two dystopian British films in 2006 (V for Vendetta and Children of Men) predicted the politics of now.

Charles takes a look at the new Robbie Williams biopic Better Man.

Graham enjoys a brilliant compilation by crime author, Ian Rankin called Behind the Counter and then previews his forthcoming Vinyl Sessions Q&A event in Harrogate on Syd Barrett and Nick Drake with author Rob Chapman as special guest.

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Charles and Graham revisit their best live music gigs of the year for 2024 with a competitive countdown of their Top 5.

Charles celebrates the extraordinary production of Bluebeard by Wise Children as his theatre event of the year, which he saw when it played at York Theatre Royal.

Graham reports on seeing comedian Maisie Adams at a small hometown gig at Roosters Taproom in Harrogate in front of her former head teacher.

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Graham shares his recent experience on BBC 6 Music plugging his many years in the Harrogate music scene on the Craig Charles show.

Graham wonders how two new very different films manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (Blitz and Conclave).

Finally, Graham reveals two new books coming up in 2025 - including his own, hopefully - with a brief extract of him reading from his yet to be titled book about Harrogate’s lost band from the late 60’s and early 70’s, Magna Carta and in particular its leader, Chris Simpson.

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