Episode 325: Bholaa
Episode 324: The Thursday Murder Club bu Richard Osman
Episode 323: The Last Jedi (with special guest Kim)
Episode 322: Return to Me
Episode 321: The Feast by Margaret Kennedy
Episode 320: Gran Torino
Episode 319: One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz
Episode 318: Memento
Episode 317: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Episode 316: Macbeth (1979)
Episode 315: Bearing False Witness by Rodney Stark
Episode 314: Amelie
Episode 313: Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Episode 312: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Episode 311: The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
Episode 310: Maheshinte Prathikaaram (Mahesh’s Revenge)
Episode 309: Persuasion by Jane Austen
Episode 308: Moon
Episode 307: West of Eden by Harry Harrison
Episode 306: Jodhaa Akbar
Episode 305: A Song for Nagasaki by Paul Glynn
Episode 304: Captain Phillips
Episode 303: FlanneryCast 2023: The Habit of Being
Episode 302: Mary and Max
Episode 301: The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Episode 300: RRR
Episode 299: Saint Thomas Aquinas “The Dumb Ox” by G. K. Chesterton
Episode 298: The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
Episode 297: Selections from Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories, edited by Martin H. Greenberg
Episode 296: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Episode 295: Miss Buncle’s Book by D. E. Stevenson
Episode 294: Reclaiming Vatican II by Fr. Blake Britton
Episode 293: Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Episode 292: Let the Right One In (2008)
Episode 291: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Episode 290: Thelma and Louise (1991)
Episode 289: The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Episode 288: Ted Lasso, Season 1
Episode 287: The Last Dance by Martin L. Shoemaker
Episode 286: Lagaan
Episode 285: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Episode 284: Jaws (1975)
Episode 283: Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
Episode 282: Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Episode 281: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
Episode 280: Iron Giant (1999)
Episode 279: One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
Episode 278: Metropolis (1927) and The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Episode 277: Silent Films: The General and The Lodger
Episode 276: Njal’s Saga
Episode 275: Master and Commander (2003)
Episode 274: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Episode 273: The Book of Ecclesiastes (with guest Tomasso Todesca)
Episode 272: Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Episode 271: “The Star” by Arthur C. Clarke and “Joyful and Triumphant” by Jo Walton
Episode 270: Three Episodes of Star Trek TOS
Episode 269: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Episode 268: Fan (2016)
Episode 267: Three Tales of Love and Terror (Honeysuckle Cottage by P. G. Wodehouse, How Fear Departed the Long Gallery by E. F. Benson, and Dark Benediction by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Episode 266: My Cousin Vinny
Episode 265: John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father by Peggy Noonan
Episode 264: Baahubali (The Beginning and The Conclusion)
Episode 263: Murderbot Diaries (Books 1-4) by Martha Wells
Episode 262: Moneyball (2011)
Episode 261: Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
Episode 260: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Episode 259: Casablanca (1942)
Episode 258: Ratatouille (2007)
Episode 257: Gone with the Wind (Part 2 of 2)
Episode 256: Gone with the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
Episode 255: Airlift (2016)
Episode 254: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Episode 253: Looper
Episode 252: The Book of Tobit
Episode 251: A New Leaf (1971)
Episode 250: The Virginian by Owen Wister
Episode 249: True Grit (2010)
Episode 248: Tuyo by Rachel Neumeier
Episode 247: Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
Episode 246: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Episode 245: Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
Episode 244: Train to Busan
Episode 243: The Shining by Stephen King
Episode 242: Notorius (1942)
Episode 241: Watership Down by Richard Adams
Episode 240: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Episode 239: The Odyssey (Part 2 of 2)
Episode 238: The Odyssey (Part 1 of 2)
Episode 237: Ram-Leela
Episode 236: Knives Out (2019)
Episode 235: Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
Episode 234: Piku
Episode 233: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Episode 232: Dunkirk (2017)
Episode 231: The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Episode 230: Singham (2011)
Episode 229: Bellwether by Connie Willis
Good Story Special: Thus Sayeth the Lord by co-host Julie Davis
Episode 228: Ex Machina (2014)
Episode 227: Her (2013)
Episode 226: Genesis 25:12 – 50
Episode 225: Genesis 2 – 25:11
Episode 224: Genesis 1 and Seven Glorious Days by Karl W. Giberson
Episode 223: The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
Episode 222: Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
Episode 221: Babette’s Feast (1987)
Episode 220: FlanneryCast 2019
Episode 219: The Book of Eli (2010)
Episode 218: The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Episode 217: Attack the Block (2011)
Episode 216: Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Episode 215: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
Episode 214: Friday’s Child by Georgette Heyer
Episode 213: Omkara
Episode 212: Lent by Jo Walton
Episode 211: Black Panther (2018)
Episode 210: King Peggy by Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman
Episode 209: Rab ni Bana de Jodi
Episode 208: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Episode 207: The Dish (2000)
Episode 206: That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
Episode 205: PK (2014)
Episode 204: Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
Episode 203: The Ten Commandments (1956)
Episode 202: Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
Episode 201: Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Episode 200: Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Episode 199: The World’s End (2013)
Episode 198: The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
Episode 197: The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Episode 196: Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives by Pope Benedict XVI
Episode 195: Infernal Affairs
Episode 194: Young Goodman Brown and Rappaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Episode 193: A Quiet Place
Episode 192: The October Country by Ray Bradbury
Episode 191: Cat People (1942)
Episode 190: Captain from Castile by Samuel Shellabarger
Episode 189: Gattaca
Episode 188: The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Episode 187: Chef (2014)
Episode 186: Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
Episode 185: King Kong (1933)
Episode 184: The Strangest Way by Robert Barron
Episode 183: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Episode 182: The Game of Fox and Lion by Robert R. Chase
Episode 181: The West Wing
Episode 180: Pancakes in Paris by Craig Carlson
Episode 179: 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Episode 178: The Book of Jonah
Episode 177: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Episode 176: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Episode 175: The Women’s Balcony
Episode 174: The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt
Episode 173: 3 Godfathers (1948)
Episode 172: Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
Episode 171: Rocky (1976)
Episode 170: Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Episode 169: Colossal
Episode 168: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Episode 167: Hamlet (1990)
Episode 166: The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter
Episode 165: Tootsie
Episode 164: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Episode 163: Silence (2016)
Episode 162: FlanneryCast 2017 stories by Flannery O’Connor (The Artificial Nigger, The Artificial Chill, Greenleaf)
Episode 161: Monsoon Wedding
Episode 160: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Episode 159: Inherit the Wind
Episode 158: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Episode 157: Spinning Plates
Episode 156: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Episode 155: Arrival
Episode 154: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Episode 153: Hell or High Water
Episode 152: The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi
Episode 151: Signs
Episode 150: The Last Pagan by Adrian Murdoch
Episode 149: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Episode 148: Kubo and the Two Strings
Episode 147: Concourse by S.J. Rozan
Episode 146: The Intouchables
Episode 145: The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Episode 144: The Witch (2015)
Episode 143: Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer
Episode 142: Lilies of the Field
Episode 141: Dune by Frank Herbert
Episode 140: The Great Escape
Episode 139: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
Episode 138: High Noon / Rio Bravo
Episode 137: Purgatorio by Dante Alighiere
Episode 136: Hot Fuzz
Episode 135: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Episode 134: Aliens
Episode 133: The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Episode 132: Spotlight
Episode 131: Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Episode 130: Guys and Dolls
Episode 129: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Episode 128: Ostrov (The Island)
Episode 127: Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin
Episode 126: Gone Baby Gone
Episode 125: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Episode 124: Star Wars
Episode 123: Millions
Episode 122: Leaf by Niggle / The Great Divorce (J.R.R Tolkien and C.S. Lewis)
Episode 121: Skyfall
Episode 120: The City by Dean Koontz
Episode 119: Halloween
Episode 118: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Episode 117: Les Miserables (2012)
Episode 116: Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Episode 115: Ben Hur (1959)
Episode 114: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Episode 113: The Dirty Dozen
Episode 112: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Episode 111: Life Itself
Episode 110: Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
Episode 109: Double Indemnity (1944)
Episode 108: Saint Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton
Episode 107: Frequency
Episode 106: Valley of Bones by Michael Gruber
Episode 105: Shall We Dance? (1996, Japanese)
Episode 104: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Episode 103: Broadchurch
Episode 102: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Episode 101: Calvary
Episode 100: Among Others by Jo Walton
Episode 99: Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor
Episode 98: It’s a Wonderful Life
Episode 97: In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
Episode 96: Hero (2002)
Episode 95: The Catholic Church Through the Ages by John Vidmar, OP
Episode 94: Super 8
Episode 93: ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Episode 92: Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Episode 91: Ashes to Ashes by Emma Lathen
Episode 90: Noah
Episode 89: Pavane by Keith Roberts
Episode 88: A Man for All Seasons
Episode 87: Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
Episode 86: Midnight in Paris
Episode 85: The Source by James Michener
Episode 84: I Confess
Episode 83: Jesus: A Pilgrimage by Fr. James Martin
Episode 82: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Episode 81: Shower (Chinese)
Episode 80: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Episode 79: Lord of the Rings trilogy – film
Episode 78: Gravity
Episode 77: Lord of the Rings, The by J.R.R. Tolkien: Part Two
Episode 76: Lord of the Rings, The by J.R.R. Tolkien: Part One
Episode 75: Community (TV show)
Episode 74: Muscle Shoals: The Movie [Season 4 opener]Episode 73: Unholy Night by Seth Grahame Smith
Episode 72: Lincoln
Episode 71: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Episode 70: Pan’s Labyrinth
Episode 69: World War Z by Max Brooks (also the movie is discussed)
Episode 68: Galaxy Quest
Episode 67: The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Episode 66: Ushpizin
Episode 65: Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick
Episode 64: Apollo 13
Episode 63: The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall
Episode 62: The Magnificent Seven
Episode 61: The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Episode 60: I, Robot
Episode 59: Jesus of Nazareth: from the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Joseph Ratzinger
Episode 58: Of Gods and Men
Episode 57: Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Episode 56: Be Kind Rewind
Episode 55: The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Episode 54: The Godfather
Episode 53: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Episode 52: Mostly Martha
Episode 51: Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
Episode 50: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Episode 49: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Episode 48: The Paper
Episode 47: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Episode 46: Heroines Past and Present (topic discussion)
Episode 45: The Sixth Sense
Episode 44: H. P. Lovecraft Short Stories: Dagon, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Color Out of Space, The Dunwich Horror
Episode 43: Mary and Max
Episode 42: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Episode 41: O Brother, Where Art Thou
Episode 40: The Stand by Stephen King
Episode 39: The Quiet Man
Episode 38: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Episode 37: The Incredibles
Episode 36: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Episode 35: Rear Window
Episode 34: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Episode 33: The Wrath of Khan (Star Trek II)
Episode 32: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
Episode 31: To Be or Not To Be (1942)
Episode 30: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Episode 29: In Bruges
Episode 28: The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
Episode 27: Lars and the Real Girl
Episode 26: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling [Season 2 opener]Episode 25: Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Episode 24: Tokyo Godfathers
Episode 23: Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
Episode 22: The Social Network
Episode 21: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Episode 20: Shaun of the Dead
Episode 19: Declare by Tim Powers
Episode 18: Contact
Episode 17: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Episode 16: Inception
Episode 15: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Episode 14: Groundhog Day
Episode 13: Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger
Episode 12: About a Boy
Episode 11: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Episode 10: Fallen (starring Denzel Washington)
Episode 9: The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint
Episode 8: Stranger Than Fiction
Episode 7: Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
Episode 6: Quiz Show (directed by Robert Redford)
Episode 5: The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
Episode 4: The Castle (Australian)
Episode 3: Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
Episode 2: Serenity (directed by Joss Whedon)
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