#111 - The Crown, Industry, and Small Axe

#111 - The Crown, Industry, and Small Axe

Author: Empire Magazine November 9, 2020 Duration: 1:24:43
It's time to get down with The Crown on this week's show as we take in the uncanny glory that is Gillian Anderson's superlative Margaret Thatcher. Plus we get a look inside the cut-throat world of financial services in BBC2's Industry (it does *not* pass the bellend test), and catch a selection of films in Steve McQueen's Small Axe on BBC1, which may or may not constitute a TV series in the strictest sense but is so good that it really doesn't matter.

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