40 episodes

Resident critics Hayley Danks and Ruth Goodchild review everything... but they don't feel they actually have to see a film or play in order to review it. Improvised by Susan Harrison and Gemma Arrowsmith.

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    • 4.4 • 11 Ratings

Resident critics Hayley Danks and Ruth Goodchild review everything... but they don't feel they actually have to see a film or play in order to review it. Improvised by Susan Harrison and Gemma Arrowsmith.

    Episode 5.3 - King Lear, starring Kenneth Branagh

    Episode 5.3 - King Lear, starring Kenneth Branagh

    Hayley sets Ruth up on Tinder against her wishes and the pair review King Lear, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. Obviously they haven't seen it yet, but since when has that ever been an obstacle to reviewing?

    • 31 min
    Episode 5.2 - Quickfire round!

    Episode 5.2 - Quickfire round!

    Hayley and Ruth take suggestions from the listeners and review all the hot button topics, from wooden coat-hangers to Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter.

    • 36 min
    Episode 5.1 - Barbenheimer

    Episode 5.1 - Barbenheimer

    After a long hiatus in which Ruth persisted in continuing her own one-woman lockdown, the reviewing duo are back doing what they do best, reviewing things they haven't actually seen. Meanwhile Ruth is unimpressed by Hayley's holistic beauty products and Hayley is definitely not in a cult.

    • 30 min
    Episode 4.3 - Vaccines and online theatre

    Episode 4.3 - Vaccines and online theatre

    Hayley and Ruth review the current selection of the Covid vaccines, while also finding time to cast a scathing eye over all online theatre.

    • 38 min
    Episode 4.2 - Lockdown

    Episode 4.2 - Lockdown

    Is it a global pandemic or is it actually a global, site specific, highly ambitious, multi media/theatre piece? Hayley & Ruth firmly believe it's the latter and proceed to review everything from the 'casting' to the 'writing' of the Covid response with their usual mixture of hypocrisy and idiocy.

    • 38 min
    Episode 4.1 - Brexit Revisited

    Episode 4.1 - Brexit Revisited

    It's four years since the podcast reviewed the EU Referendum and in this episode Hayley and Ruth discus Brexit, as always with varying degrees of accuracy. Also Hayley explains self-care and Ruth reminisces about her own childhood Brexit while reiterating her stance on therapy.

    • 35 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
11 Ratings

11 Ratings

Jmmillett ,

The Sisters I never had.

Don’t remember how I found Haley and Ruth but I don’t want to ever live without them. Thank you!

adavies108 ,

Hilarious

I stumbled upon this podcast and it was one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

User3010 ,

Five stars podcast

So lucky people are around to review the lockdown. Need to know before going to see

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