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Writers on Film

Writers on Film

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Writers on Film is the only podcast to focus on film books and to talk to the best authors working in the area of cinema. From Making Of tomes to biographies, studies to novelisations, author and film critic John Bleasdale is fascinated by where the written word intersects with the world of the big screen. Get bonus content on Patreon A proud part of the Film Stories Podcast Network: www.filmstories.co.uk(c) John Bleasdale Art
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  • Stephen Volk on Gothic, GhostWatch and Weird Reality
    Mar 25 2026

    Stephen Volk is a Welsh screenwriter, who wrote the screenplays for numerous horror films, including Ken Russell's Gothic (1986), The Kiss (1988), and William Friedkin's The Guardian (1990). In 1992, Volk wrote the teleplay for the BBC pseudo-documentary Ghostwatch. Other screenwriting credits include Octane (2003) and The Awakening (2011).

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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Gabriel Byrne on his Memoirs
    Mar 18 2026

    Irish actor and writer Gabriel Byrne talks about writing his memoir Walking with Ghosts, available here.

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    48 mins
  • Partially Devoured with Daniel Kraus
    Mar 11 2026

    DANIEL KRAUS is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His latest novel, Angel Down, was a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2025. His novel Whalefall won the Alex Award, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR, The New York Times, Amazon, Chicago Tribune, and more. With Guillermo del Toro, he cowrote The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film.

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    50 mins
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