22 October 2026
Will Mark lose his head over the GHOSTS film? with Jim Howick & Laurence Rickard
Kermode & Mayo’s Take
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Simon Mayo is back behind the mic this week, and the Redactor is back in the shadows, just where Mayo likes him to stay. It’s a bumper week with four reviews in today’s Take 1. In the superhero blockbuster corner we’ve got Clayface, a body-horror thriller starring Tom Rhys Harries in an origin story for the DC villain, and at the arthouse end of things we’ve got Fatherland, Paweł Pawlikowski’s post-war European drama starring Sandra Hüller. Plus, a documentary with Jeanie Findlay’s grassroots environmental exposé All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea. And last but not least, coming at you from the afterlife, we have Ghosts: The Possession of Button House. Which brings us to this week’s guests…
It’s Jim Howick and Laurence Rickard, AKA Ghosts’ Pat Butcher and Robin The Caveman (not forgetting the headless Humphrey Bone). The stars and co-creators unpack the beloved BBC sitcom’s big-screen adventure with Simon, and Mark will be reviewing it too.
All that plus our weekly Box Office Top 10 rundown, the humour-graveyard that is The Laughter Lift, and your top correspondence examined by The Good Doctors.
You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo.
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Our Christmas Movie Spectacular is back! It’s in Bristol this year on Sunday 6th December. Don’t miss it!
Here’s the link for tickets:
https://www.fane.co.uk/kermode-and-mayo
What’s on:
The Big Scream
22-24 October 2026,
Bristol Megascreen
https://www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk/big-scream-2026
Deal Film Festival
23-26 October 2026
Deal, Kent
https://www.dealfilmfestival.org/
Vanguard - Investing gives your money the opportunity to grow over time, but market movements mean values can rise and fall along the way
Home Movie Day 2026
24 October @ 10:30
https://cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/home-movie-day-2026/
Mystery screening at Emmanuel Church in Newport on Saturday 24th October:
https://www.emmanuel-newport.org.uk/
Timecodes:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:09:11 All Rivers Spill Their Story to the Sea
00:17:06 Box Office Top Ten
00:29:08 Jim Howick & Laurence Rickard Interview
00:44:36 Ghosts review
00:49:48 Laughter Lift
00:54:20 Fatherland review
01:03:51 Clayface review
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Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member-only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show - a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time.
Simon Mayo is back behind the mic this week, and the Redactor is back in the shadows, just where Mayo likes him to stay. It’s a bumper week with four reviews in today’s Take 1. In the superhero blockbuster corner we’ve got Clayface, a body-horror thriller starring Tom Rhys Harries in an origin story for the DC villain, and at the arthouse end of things we’ve got Fatherland, Paweł Pawlikowski’s post-war European drama starring Sandra Hüller. Plus, a documentary with Jeanie Findlay’s grassroots environmental exposé All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea. And last but not least, coming at you from the afterlife, we have Ghosts: The Possession of Button House. Which brings us to this week’s guests…
It’s Jim Howick and Laurence Rickard, AKA Ghosts’ Pat Butcher and Robin The Caveman (not forgetting the headless Humphrey Bone). The stars and co-creators unpack the beloved BBC sitcom’s big-screen adventure with Simon, and Mark will be reviewing it too.
All that plus our weekly Box Office Top 10 rundown, the humour-graveyard that is The Laughter Lift, and your top correspondence examined by The Good Doctors.
You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo.
A Sony Music Entertainment production.
Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts
To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com
Our Christmas Movie Spectacular is back! It’s in Bristol this year on Sunday 6th December. Don’t miss it!
Here’s the link for tickets:
https://www.fane.co.uk/kermode-and-mayo
What’s on:
The Big Scream
22-24 October 2026,
Bristol Megascreen
https://www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk/big-scream-2026
Deal Film Festival
23-26 October 2026
Deal, Kent
https://www.dealfilmfestival.org/
Vanguard - Investing gives your money the opportunity to grow over time, but market movements mean values can rise and fall along the way
Home Movie Day 2026
24 October @ 10:30
https://cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/home-movie-day-2026/
Mystery screening at Emmanuel Church in Newport on Saturday 24th October:
https://www.emmanuel-newport.org.uk/
Timecodes:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:09:11 All Rivers Spill Their Story to the Sea
00:17:06 Box Office Top Ten
00:29:08 Jim Howick & Laurence Rickard Interview
00:44:36 Ghosts review
00:49:48 Laughter Lift
00:54:20 Fatherland review
01:03:51 Clayface review
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