• Netflix and Chill #1: True Crime Documentaries

    In the first of our Netflix and Chill series for the Reviews Podcast, Sophie, James and Katie discuss some of their top picks for true crime documentaries, all available to stream from Netflix. These include Abducted in Plain Sight, Amanda Knox and Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy...
  • Dear Agony Aunt: I can’t stick to my New Year’s resolution…

    Dear Auntie Carol… How can I stick to my New Year’s resolution this year? Dear reader… First of all, let me apologise for my absence last week! For those of you who don’t know – last Tuesday was my BIRTHDAY! Honestly, so many unexpected things happened. To cut a...
  • Style Icon: Stacey Dooley

    I will get straight to the point, I am in love with Stacey Dooley. For those of you who do not know, Stacey is a BBC journalist and documentary presenter. Over her ten-year career, she has worked on documentaries that have seen her getting up close to ISIS, to one...
  • Showing Not Telling – ‘Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise’ and TV Documentaries

    With a critical response size probably disproportionate to its viewing figures, Mark Cousin’s cine-docu-essay-poem Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise aired on Saturday as part of the BBC’s coverage remembering the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings 70 years ago. The manner in which the film was constructed, while typical of...