In this bonus episode of series four, Cai Ross and Chris Bainbridge speak to David Hughes about his 2024 reprint of George Markstein's The Cooler. As ever, minutiae will be scrutinised and tangents will be explored with discussion, interpretation, trivia and humour. The only Prisoner podcast produced in north Wales, home of the Village itself, Portmeirion. David Hughes is a film critic for Empire and Time Out and a widely published magazine and newspaper journalist, he is also the author of six non-fiction books, including The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made, Tales from Development Hell and critically-acclaimed volumes about filmmakers Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch. As a screenwriter, he has scripted a dozen feature films and several prize-winning shorts, rewritten many more, and has scripted comedy material for John Cleese, Mike Myers, Leslie Nielsen, Chris Rock, Steve Coogan, Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jack Black, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and numerous other comic talents. To grab a copy of The Cooler, visit: https://plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/products/the-cooler-pbk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.