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Black Mirror Cracked
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Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews featuring journalists, actors from the show and even Charlie Brooker himself!For more Black Mirror stuff, follow our Twitter @BlackMirrorCrrr, join the conversation in our Facebook group or read more at mirror.co.uk/blackmirror Thanks for listening!Black Mirror Cracked is hosted by James Ide and produced by Daniel Jackson.
Episodes
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Black Mirror Cracked 1 Trailer
So, Black Mirror Cracked started with Series 4 on Netflix, then jumped up the podcast charts. So we went back to the original run on Channel 4... Essentially, we recorded out of order from the show, so now we've re-ordered by episode! For information regarding your data privacy, visit...
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No Exit: Philosophy, morality and decision making in the multiverse
In this deep dive episode, we will take you on a mind bending journey.Host James Ide welcomes Dr. David Kyle Johnson on the podcast to discuss philosophy and its links to Black Mirror. The brain burning conversation covers a lot of ground across Netflix's Black Mirror - as well as light subjects...
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Black Mirror Cracked 5 trailer
It's all change as former guest, James Ide, slides into the host's chair. Starting nice and easy, his first task is Bandersnatch, the interactive Black Mirror movie from Netflix with a few million permutations... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more…
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Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too: Take The Cable Out
For an episode that came so close not happening, it was a perfect storm of Black Mirror, celebrity and a superstar.Host James is joined by Netflix expert Lewis Knight and Miley super-fan Vicki Newman.Ashley 2 is on the loose and not minding her tongue - but should she? Charlie Brooker does...
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Smithereens: A Taxi Ride Into Grief
Back to Britain, as a hostage situation goes global...Andrew Scott and Topher Grace lead Season 5's Smithereens and host James and Producer Dan debate whether Black Mirror needs the twists after all, elements of farce at play... and what is Billy Bauer's hair is doing?!For more Black Mirror…
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Striking Vipers: Sex, Lies and Virtual Reality
Anthony Mackie joins the Black Mirror multiverse and it's the first time we have to tag an episode 'explicit'.Video games, VR and new sexual frontiers align in the Season 5 opener. Host James Ide chats with guest Dom Peppiatt about sex, identity and the new frontier that technology brings... and...
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Black Mirror Cracked 4 Trailer
Black Mirror may have started in 2011, but 2017 is when Black Mirror Cracked started - covering all six episodes as they dropped on Netflix.Join superfans Suchandrika and Ryan as they digest and discuss the new episodes, plus interviews with the cast and showrunners Charlie Brooker and Annabel...
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Black Mirror Cracked 3 trailer
We tease Black Mirror's longest season yet and go behind the scenes of San Junipero... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Black Mirror Cracked 2 trailer
So, more Black Mirror - more cracking!Superfans and cast from the show take time to unpack the dark anthology TV series... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Craig Parkinson on Bandersnatch, interactive movies and his Two Shot Podcast
"How the devil are ya?"He may be one of the stars of Black Mirrror: Bandersnatch, but actor Craig Parkinson hosts his own podcast where he just has a chat.Host James sits down over a cuppa with Craig Parkinson to chat all things Black Mirror, not watching Bandersnatch and the conversational Two...
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Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones on Bandersnatch
It’s a press tour in reverse, as the creators of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch promote the movie after its release!James talks with Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones about the Netflix interactive hit, confirming the Black Mirror multiverse theory, how Bandersnatch was made and trying to figure out...
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Bandersnatch
It's time to go further down the Black Mirror rabbit hole than ever before!December 28th saw the release of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch - an interactive experience from Netflix. Join host James Ide chatting with Producer Dan, who has spent far too long trying to save Stefan from Charlie…
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We'll Be Right Back
It's been a whole year since our last Black Mirror fix, but could that all be about to change?Fans are wildly speculating that a Black Mirror feature length movie could be about to drop: Bandersnatch! Secretive as ever, not much is known about the new feature and Netflix are remaining tight…
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San Junipero with Wes actor Gavin Stenhouse
Yes, it's San Junipero! The neon-lit 80s tale of two women falling in love that is not - of course - all that it seems. Actor Gavin Stenhouse (@gavinstenhouse) who plays lovelorn Wes, joins the pod to talk about working on the most beloved (and surprising) of Black Mirror instalments. He was also...
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White Christmas with actor Rasmus Hardiker
The episode known as 'the Jon Hamm one' before its much-anticipated debut in December 2014, White Christmas is a collection of Black Mirror lasts and firsts.It's the last of the Channel 4 series, going out well before the news that Netflix would pick up the show.It's the first episode to have a...
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Black Museum's Aldis Hodge wants a puppy for Carrie
Aldis Hodge (@AldisHodge) joins the podcast to talk about Jack, Carrie, That Monkey and all things Black Museum. A Black Mirror fan before he was sent the script, Hodge jumped at the chance to be part of the show.There's a light-hearted way to look at the episode: Rolo Haynes's ridiculous...
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Black Musuem's Daniel Lapaine won't apologise for the orgasms
Daniel Lapaine brings 'La Pain' to this episode of the pod for an exclusive - and raucous - interview about his work on Black Mirror. Lapaine - who shot to fame as a dreamy swimmer in 1994 Australian comedy Muriel's Wedding - has a very special place in the Black Mirror universe.He's in not just...
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Wyatt Russell talks Playtest
Wyatt Russell, who plays main character Cooper Redfield, Skypes into the podcast from LA to talk all things Playtest - and also about his favourite episode, the first one he ever saw.Hear what it was like to act out all those scenes in the house of horrors alone, how he subtly changed his…
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Playtest
It's the gamer one! With Charlie Brooker's background as a video games journalist, it was only a matter of time before we got the horror gaming episode.Wyatt Russell plays Cooper Redfield, a name that'll sound eerily familiar to old-school gamers.To do the episode justice, we've got Daily Mirror...
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Nosedive
Even this podcast gets ratings! Why don't you rate, review and subscribe to Black Mirror Cracked...?Nosedive reflects so much of our world back to us, that we can never escape that eerie feeling while watching it, even though Lacie Pound's (Bryce Dallas Howard) sweet pastel surroundings seem...
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Men Against Fire
Computer games, warfare, skull implants, a rapidly-thinning line between dreams and reality, plus... are those zombies?!Season 3's Men Against Fire could not be more relevant today, with its exploration of how propaganda made real can help soldiers carry out their duties to kill. Even when those...
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Shut Up And Dance
Journalists Jo-Anne Rowney and Kyle O'Sullivan carry on from their discussion of White Bear to analyse Season 3's Shut Up and Dance.The episodes both drill down into crime, punishment and vigilante justice.They also toy with the audience, using our natural human need to identify with the...
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Hated in the Nation
Let's dive into Black Mirror Season 3, where the show moved from Channel 4 to Netflix.Reddit was quick to pick up on how the images of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sitting in Congressional Hearings, thanks to the Cambridge Analytica investigation, echoed scenes of DCI Karin Parke (Kelly McDonald)...
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Be Right Back
A recurring theme among all the actors interviewed for this podcast is a deep love for the acting masterclass that is Be Right Back.Hayley Atwell (Martha) and Domhnall Gleeson (Ash) play out the saddest, most delicate two-hander in the middle of a rural nowhere.Martha gets what everyone broken by...
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White Bear
It's the first time that a Black Mirror twist completely pulls the rug out from underneath the audience.A lost, terrified woman, Victoria (Lenora Crichlow), wakes up without her memory, and is continuously chased through the endless countryside.Jem (Tuppence Middleton) comes to her aid, but…
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The Entire History of You's Rhashan Stone on the Peep Show POV
Rhashan Stone, who plays Jeff in The Entire History of You, calls Season 1's finale "Black Mirror before it was Black Mirror."He has a point: it's the first episode to feature a cranial implant and future tech that undoes a pair of lives.It's the only episode written by Peep Show co-creator Jesse...
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The Entire History of You
Peep Show's Jesse Armstrong (@jessearmstrong1) has the sole writing credit on this episode, and he brings the point-of-view camera technique with him.The Entire History of You explores a world where everyone's memories are recorded and available for public viewing.Photographer James Ide...
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The National Anthem
Before Black Mirror became the phenomenon we know it as today, The National Anthem was touted as a Charlie Brooker show about the Prime Minister having to do something humiliating with a pig.How far the show has come, you might think - but lots of Black Mirror's classic themes are in this...
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Hang the DJ's Georgina Campbell on finally meeting her Black Mirror match
"I'Il say Hang the DJ, and it always takes them a minute to go 'oh yeah'… so no one ever recognises me! I usually have to forcibly tell them who I am…"If that's the case now for Georgina Campbell (@G_ACampbell), it certainly won't stay that way for long.Georgina auditioned for Black Mirror a…
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Fifteen Million Merits' Paul Popplewell
We're joined by Fifteen Million Merits actor Paul Popplewell (@PaulPopplewell), who plays Dustin, with episode analysis from Birmingham Live's resident Season 1 super-fan, James Rodger (@jamesdrodger).Daniel Kaluuya might've narrowly missed out on an Oscar for Get Out, but his journey to that…
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USS Callister's Milanka Brooks on explaining herself to Jodie Foster
"He insisted on not being hugged. So I went out of my way, every time he came on set, to go and give him a big hug, despite my blue. I tried to always keep him on his toes…"That's Milanka Brooks (@MilankaBrooks) talking about Black Mirror co-creator Charlie Brooker's visits to the set of USS...
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San Junipero's Raymond McAnally on winning the golden ticket
Yorkie and Kelly seem doomed to be star-crossed lovers in San Junipero, with one of Black Mirror's cruellest twists threatening to keep them apart forever.Enter Nurse Greg, the most selfless character ever to be written by Charlie Brooker.The man behind the nurse, Raymond McAnally (@MtnMack)…
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Black Museum's Douglas Hodge says Charlie Brooker's a dangerous writer
"He literally loves the sound of his own voice!"That's Douglas Hodge (@Dhodgem) on his character Rolo Haynes, the owner of Black Museum.Doug skyped into the pod from New York, where he's in rehearsals for the play Fire and Air.He tells us about acting out every single word of the Season 4 finale,...
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The Waldo Moment
It's not really a fan favourite, but @MirrorTech's Jeff Parsons (@jparsons989) and @MirrorPolitics' Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) like it, so this week they've joined the podcast to tell you why The Waldo Moment matters.A cartoon figure who says that politicians are rubbish (but runs for office...
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Hang The DJ's Gina Bramhill tells us everything...
… happens for a reason!Season 4's most adorable episode is about a love that overcomes 'The System'… at least 99.8% of the time.The voice of that system - Coach - guides Amy (Georgina Campbell) and Frank (Joe Cole) through their dating hits and misses before they meet their Ultimate One on the...
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Black Mirror Season 4 Easter Egg Hunt
You've battled your way through all of Black Mirror Season 4, now sit back and relax while we find the Easter Eggs for you!Beckett Mufson (@BeckettMufson), Vice US Staff Writer, tells us about all the telling little details he noticed, and what they mean for the world of Black Mirror.--Welcome to...
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Exclusive Season 4 interview with Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones
The creators of Black Mirror walk us through each episode in Season 4, callbacks to previous episodes - and their inability to name our podcast!Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) and Annabel Jones speak to us ahead of the release of Season 4 on Netflix.--Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - your...
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Metalhead
Black Mirror goes noir for Maxine Peake's 38-minute scarefest.Daily Mirror journalists and superfans, Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@SuchandrikaC) and Ryan Brown (@Toadsanime), dissect Season 4's fifth episode from Netflix, Metalhead.--Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - your podcast for all things…
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USS Callister
Black Mirror beyond the final frontier…Daily Mirror journalists and superfans, Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@SuchandrikaC) and Ryan Brown (@Toadsanime), boldly explore Season 4's first episode, USS Callister.For more in-depth Callister stuff, here's our interview with Elena the receptionist /...
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Crocodile
The jaws are closing in on Andrea Riseborough in Black Mirror Season 4's Crocodile.Daily Mirror journalists and superfans, Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@SuchandrikaC) and Ryan Brown (@Toadsanime), dive in.--Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - your podcast for all things Black Mirror.We alternate…
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Black Museum
Everything comes together, as we visit Black Mirror's Season 4 finale, Black Museum.Daily Mirror journalists and superfans, Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@SuchandrikaC) and Ryan Brown (@Toadsanime), trace the threads of the pain and technology knotted throughout the three stories contained within.For...
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Arkangel
Parenting with a Black Mirror twist…Daily Mirror journalists and superfans, Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@SuchandrikaC ) and Ryan Brown (@Toadsanime), break down Season 4's Arkangel, directed by Jodie Foster.--Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - your podcast for all things Black Mirror.We alternate...
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Hang The DJ
Charlie Brooker calls this one "Spotify for dating."Daily Mirror journalists and superfans, Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@SuchandrikaC) and Ryan Brown (@Toadsanime), embark on the jarring journey towards finding the Ultimate One in Black Mirror Season 4's Hang the DJ.Find out what it was like to work...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews featuring journalists, actors from the show and even Charlie Brooker himself!For more Black Mirror stuff, follow our Twitter @BlackMirrorCrrr, join the conversation in our Facebook group or read more at mirror.co.uk/blackmirror Thanks for listening!Black Mirror Cracked is hosted by James Ide and produced by Daniel Jackson.
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Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews featuring journalists, actors from the show and even Charlie Brooker himself!For more Black Mirror stuff, follow our Twitter @BlackMirrorCrrr, join the conversation in...
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