Box of Delights

Great Big Owl

All of television history is contained within the Box of Delights. TV journalist Julia Raeside invites her guests to choose a favourite TV memory and take another look at it, say what it meant to them, and what it means to them now.

  • 42 minutes 43 seconds
    Christmas 2023 - We're back!

    After the world's longest podcast hiatus (will verify with Norris McWhirter) Julia is back for a chat with regular guest (and, yes, he happens to be her husband), comedy writer Joel Morris.


    They reminisce about the TV of Christmases past and look forward to the new traditions they're making with their own family. But mostly it's just them bunking on about Blue Peter fire hazards, Victoria Wood, the big Christmas day film, Noel Edmonds, more Victoria Wood, dancing newsreaders and how excited they are about the Ghosts special on Christmas Day.


    If you're in a Yule-ish mood, why not scroll back to some of our Christmas specials from 2020 including THIS lovely one about The Good Life Christmas Special with Greg Haiste or THIS absolute beauty from Toby Davies looking back at the quite wonderful Children of Green Knowe.


    We hope you have a lovely Christmas free of disease and distemper and we'll see you in 2024!


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    19 December 2023, 7:30 pm
  • 17 minutes 11 seconds
    Six Feet Under
    TV producer Geri O'Donohoe remembers the utterly heart-wrenching finale to Six Feet Under and the personal resonance it particularly holds for her.

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    23 March 2023, 4:46 pm
  • 11 minutes 54 seconds
    Rik Mayall: the first Comic Relief
    Comedian Mitch Benn talks to Julia about the time he saw the mighty Rik Mayall at the first ever Comic Relief live show in 1986.

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    9 June 2022, 10:06 am
  • 18 minutes 16 seconds
    Succession: the Dundee episode
    Brilliant actor and star of Home (C4) Youssef Kerkour joins Julia to recount the thrilling, often excruciating episode of Succession in which Logan Roy (Brian Cox) returns to his home town in Scotland.

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    16 December 2020, 4:33 pm
  • 16 minutes 10 seconds
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    Writer and podcaster Chris Thorpe-Tracey joins Julia to discuss his deep love for the 90s blood-sucker butt-kicker.

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    13 December 2020, 2:05 pm
  • 14 minutes 9 seconds
    1980s Levi's Jeans Ads
    Novelist Jenny Colgan remembers the pure teen lust generated by Nick Kamen stripping to his pants in a launderette.

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    3 December 2020, 3:54 pm
  • 22 minutes 11 seconds
    Ghostwatch
    Christmas is a time for ghost stories, so let's tenuously link to that by listening to the brilliant Tony Way reminisce about the bone-chilling terror induced by his viewing of Ghostwatch (BBC One) as a slightly tipsy teenager.

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    2 December 2020, 9:24 am
  • 17 minutes 17 seconds
    Doctor Who: Death of Adric
    Julia helps comedian Mitch Benn to revisit the trauma of that day in 1982 when his innocence was swiftly taken by the death of Doctor Who companion, Adric.

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    1 December 2020, 3:12 pm
  • 14 minutes 49 seconds
    Ivor the Engine
    Podcaster and man Jake Yapp barely controls his emotions as he returns to the Wales of his boyhood to weep over Small Films' delicate wonder, Ivor the Engine.

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    30 November 2020, 2:59 pm
  • 19 minutes 42 seconds
    Blind Date: the undercover journalist
    Writer and broadcaster Sali Hughes remembers the furore around the Blind Date fake contestant scandal of 1998 and reveals some thrilling new behind-the-scenes details.

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    5 May 2020, 1:00 am
  • 17 minutes 12 seconds
    The Coronation Street Killer
    Comedian Tom Burgess buckles up to relive the THRILL ride that was Richard Hillman's gruesome tenure as the Coronation Street serial killer.

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    21 April 2020, 11:52 am
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