Fast film chat with guest momentum.
Radio 1's Screen Time is a fast, friendly movie-and-TV interview show led by Ali Plum's in-house-nerd energy. It mixes guest conversations, awards-season reactions, franchise excitement, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes without turning stiff.
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Radio 1's Screen Time is a fast-moving movie-and-TV show where celebrity interviews feel closer to a lively film-fan catch-up than a formal press stop. Ali Plum steers with reference-heavy warmth, the kind that can move from a Die Hard greeting to Coen Brothers devotion in a few breaths. The show knows its audience. It assumes listeners care about cinema, awards chatter, trailer moments, franchise reveals, and the strange little memories actors carry from set. That gives the conversations a useful looseness. Michael Fassbender can talk about Black Bag, Soderbergh, and the lasting hope of moviegoing, then veer into a nervous audition story involving the Coen Brothers. Naomi Aki can describe Mickey 17 in blunt, funny shorthand before drifting into Robert Pattinson movie magic, Star Wars water tanks, and the surreal parts of a career. Florence Pugh's archive interview finds humor and texture in performance, crying on camera, and the internet's fixation on expressive frowns. Phil Dunster's episode folds Surface and Ted Lasso into Reading banter, football expectations, Comic-Con encounters, and self-aware teasing. The Marvel episodes run on a different kind of electricity, with Anthony Mackie talking through Captain America moments and audience reactions with genuine feeling. Awards-season entries bring in film-world guests such as Ella Kemp to talk nominations, surprises, snubs, and why movie fans argue about all of it in the first place. The format is interview-centric, but it rarely feels boxed in. Short jokes keep the pace up. Specific follow-ups keep it from floating away. The show is at its best when the guest can match Ali Plum's conversational speed and comfort with pop-culture detail. It is not a dry review desk. It is not a lecture. It is a friendly, well-informed window into current releases, actor memories, and the rituals around big films. The recent episodes also carry a reflective note, with the show pausing after a finale episode while pointing listeners toward interviews continuing elsewhere. That gives the catalogue a slightly celebratory feel: part current film chat, part archive of vivid actor encounters.
Made for: For movie and TV fans who like interviews with pace, jokes, and real release-week context. It especially suits listeners who follow awards season, Marvel moments, actors, and behind-the-scenes stories.
What sets it apart: Its edge is Ali Plum's quick, fan-literate rapport: the interviews feel prepared but never over-polished. The show gets memorable detail by treating major guests like fellow film obsessives, not distant promotional figures.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ali Plum pairs informed craft questions with easy rapport, drawing actors and directors into revealing conversations about performance, production and audience response.
Ali Plum turns celebrity interviews into conversations about how screen work is made, remembered and received. With Michael Fassbender, talk of working with Steven Soderbergh leads into an unsuccessful Coen Brothers audition and the case for cinema as an experience.
Michael Fassbender's nervous Coen Brothers audition is your reward for wanting questions beyond the new film.
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A farewell chat that uses Michael Fassbender to make a sharp case for seeing Black Bag in a cinema.
Radio 1's Screen Time closes this run with Ali Plum turning the finale into both a farewell and a fitting send-off for Michael Fassbender, who is on hand to discuss Black Bag and Steven Soderbergh.
A lively archive chat that finds Florence Pugh frank about acting, emotion, and the face her fans know well.
Ali Plum's archive chat with Florence Pugh is a brisk, playful stop in Screen Time, shaped more like a career-spanning conversation than a polished promo turn.
Phil Dunster's Surface interview works best when Jamie Tartt memories meet easy Reading rapport.
Phil Dunster's part in the second series of Surface gives this Screen Time episode a neat route in: an Apple TV+ thriller mystery about memory loss, split lives, and the kind of polish Ali Plum compares to a more glamorous Memento.
Anthony Mackie's Endgame memories give these Captain America interviews their most human charge.
Radio 1's Screen Time gathers Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford and Danny Ramirez around Captain America: Brave New World, taking the film's place in the MCU as the starting point.
Craig Gillespie traces the urgency, inequality, and last-act rewrite behind Dumb Money.
Craig Gillespie's Dumb Money comes across as a movie built in the same rush of heat that surrounded the 2021 GameStop short squeeze. Gillespie frames the production as unusually compressed, with the project coming together in a week or two, financing, prep, and casting moving…
A warm closing episode ties Fassbender's Coen Brothers fandom and Black Bag into a lively case for cinema.
Radio 1's Screen Time closes its current run with Michael Fassbender, shaping the conversation around Black Bag and Ali Plum's evident love of cinema.
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant explain one topic per episode, from the bicameral mind to Boeing's MCAS.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins dissect Oscar races, new releases, and Hollywood news.
Ali Plumb interviews Dafne Keen about her role in Deadpool & Wolverine and her experience at Comic-Con.
Ali Plumb discusses the cancellation of a Martin Scorsese interview and previews a Paul Mescal interview, with movie news and recommendations.
Ali Plumb and guest Ella Kemp discuss the Oscar nominations, analyzing snubs, surprises, and the overall awards season landscape.
Ali Plumb and guests review new movie releases including Wicked, Gladiator 2, Paddington in Peru, and Moana 2.
Radio 1's Ali Plumb interviews director Craig Gillespie about his new film 'Dumb Money', which dramatizes the 2021 GameStop short squeeze.
This is the final episode of Radio 1's Screen Time, hosted by Ali Plumb.
Ali Plum says this is the final, inverted commas, episode of BBC Radio 1's Screen Time for the time being.
Ali Plum opens an archive interview with Florence Pugh.
["Ali Plum interviews Phil Dunster on Radio 1's Screen Time about Surface season 2 on Apple TV+ and his Ted Lasso role as Jamie Tartt.
Radio 1's Screen Time centers on Ali Plumb's interviews about Captain America: Brave New World, with Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, and Danny Ramirez.
Radio 1's Screen Time pairs Adrian Brody discussing The Brutalist with Sean Baker and Mikey Madison discussing Anora, two films receiving major BAFTA and Oscar attention.
Radio 1’s Screen Time features Ali Plum’s in-person conversation with Ariana Grande about her first leading film role as Glinda in Wicked.