Tea o'clock with Cella: Recent Episodes
Ceri & Ella
Bring your tea, relax and listen to two pals having a chinwag about anything and everything over a cuppa!
In each episode, we catch up whilst chatting about a book, film, tv show, or theatre production. Episodes will be live at 3 pm GMT on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month.
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Our Challengers episode is here! Join us as we chat all about tennis, love, beauty, and desire in Challengers.
Enjoy!
In preparation of the new series of Love island join us for a chat all about the previous series and some of the most iconic moments!
In our next instalment of The Novel without Men, we bring you our insights on the fascinating Silas Marner by George Eliot.
This week we come to you with a number episode where we each recommend each other 10 books we have read and loved. We hope you can also get some reading recommendations from us. Episode details: 4.34- What we’ve been consuming 12.11- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy18.45- Soulmates by Holly Bourne21.04- The Watchmaker of Filgree Street by Natasha Pulley24.50- Olga Does Dreaming by Xochitl Conzalez27.22- Alice and the Fly by James Rice31.05- Maurice by E. M. Forster 36.09- Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton39.32- Talking at Night by Claire Daverley44.26- What Goes around by Emily Chappell46.16- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates49.55- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury53.04- Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord55.36- Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard58.05- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel1.00.24- Only Ever Yours by Louise O’Neill1.03.32- Severance by Ling Ma1.06.02- Love is a Mixtape by Rob Sheffield 1.09.50- Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason1.13.24- The Magus by John Fowles 1.15.27- The Sun and her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
Join us as we take a best friend quiz to find out how much we really know each other- and our fave toast toppings.
In our fourth instalment of The Novel Without Men, we share our thoughts on Mary Shelley's brilliant dystopian novel: The Last Man.
Join us to hear our thoughts on the spectacular Foe, starring Saoirse Ronan & Paul Mescal.
Join us as we debrief on the first episode on the new Ripley series on Netflix. Thank you for joining us again George.
In today’s episode we carry on with our The Novel Without Men series diving into the 18th Century by discussing work by Eliza Haywood and Charlotte Lennox. Enjoy!
Episode details:
3.28- What we’ve been consuming
9.28- 18th Century Literature
19.15-21.48 - Summary of Fantonima
21.48-24.29 - Summary of The Female Quixote
24.29- First impressions
29.31- General Discussion
55.03- Final Thoughts
This week's extra brew is a bumper episode all about our New York trip, with the first part recorded in Central Park. We hope you enjoy our little run through of our jam-packed weekend!
Welcome back to out mini series The Novel Without Men.
This week we take a look at the sixteenth and seventeenth century writers setting the scene of the time period and looking specifically at Isabella do Morra and Aphra Behn.
We hope you enjoy!
Episode details:
3.31- What we’ve been consuming
8.33- intro
14.34- Isabella do Morra
37.24- other 16th century writers, Catherine Parr
43.30- Marie de Gourney
46.43- Emilia Lanier
48.51- ‘Eve Bites Back’
49.46- Mary Roth
52.26- Margaret Cavendish
55.21- other 17th century writers, Catherine Phillips
57.12- Elena Cassandra Tarabotti
59.12- Judith Drake
1.00.56- Aphra Behn (Trigger warnings around 1.15.00-1.17.55)
In this episode we talk about our recent tarot card readings alongside all things magic and zodiac related.
Enjoy!
This week we are joined by Georgina to talk all things Saltburn! (we've been very excited about this one)
Join us as we chat about our predictions, those scenes, Brideshead Revisited connections, and much much more.
Enjoy!
Episode details:
2.55- Summary
3.57- Predictions
9.25- Oliver
16.53- Power dynamics
19.12- Farleigh
25.42- Romance/Desire
29.55- Influences
32.21- Writing and casting
33.52- Commercial attention
36.14- Indie films
38.46- Message (?)
40.16- Film making
49.22- Accents
51.58- Brideshead Revisited connections
58.03- Oliver's lie
1.02.00- Final thoughts
1.04.36- Blonde moment
Tune in if you wanna hear us talk about everything from dating to getting abs this year...
We're so excited to bring you the first instalment in our new mini-series, exploring women's writing through the years! We start over 4,000 years ago and travel to just before the Renaissance. Stay tuned for more episodes coming soon :)
We’re back with more extra brew and we’re staring off chatting about all the things we’re excited for this year from film and TV, to our competitive streak with our reading challenge.
Enjoy!!
What's in the daily news? I'll tell you what's in the daily news... Guys & Dolls: an extraordinary production currently showing at The Bridge!
Our festive film episode is here! To end the year we watched Catering Christmas and A Brush With Christmas to bring some wholesome sweet festive vibes our way.
Listen to us chat about tropes, gender dynamics, Wyatt’s arms (iykyk 😅), small town America, the obsession with peppermint hot chocolate and more! 🎄❄️
Enjoy listening and we’ll see you in the new year!!
Episode details:
02.19- What We’ve Been Consuming
09.14- Films
10.43-13.30- Catering Christmas Summary
13.40-16.12- A Brush with Christmas Summary
52.32- Blonde Moment
For this week's extra brew we’ve invited George to join us and chat about unpopular film opinions. What do you think can Pierce Brosnan actually sing? Are ambiguous endings good? What’s the best Harry Potter film? Listen to what we think and more opinions too!
Happy 100th episode to us! 🎉 Can you believe it we’ve made it to 100 episodes?!
To celebrate we’ve invited Georgina, Kira, and Ella M for a fun film club episode. We discuss a whole host of new films never before mentioned on the podcast so we hope you enjoy and take away a few recommendations too.
Episode details:
01:40 - Favourite Film
15:35 - Go to comfort film
34:32 - A film that makes you cry
55:11 - Favourite film score - George
58:58 - Character you relate to (TV) - Ella M
01:03:02 - Childhood films - Kira & Ceri
01:14:54 - Film that transports you to a different place - Ella
01:18:18 - Favourite actors
Our Extra Brew episode this week includes a very special guest Tilly! She joins us to talk through a host of icks and discuss whether some icks are simply dealbreakers.
🎃 👻 Happy Halloween 🎃 👻
This year we’re going old school Halloween with a classic, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Listen to us discuss all things vampires and Victorian Gothic to get into the spooky mood.
Episode details:
04.21- What we’ve been consuming
09.42- Dracula
57.14- Blonde Moment
Our second Extra Brew episode is here and this time we have a candid chat about beauty and spreading love and compliments around.
It's time for the first Austen episode of the series. Join us as we discuss her 1815 novel Emma and its film counterparts. Enjoy!
Join us for the first of our new mini episodes... Extra Brew!Listen to us chat about all things dating, Hinge and icks :)
It's Colleen Hoover week, find out what we think of her writing, her characters, and the importance of telling these stories.
Let us know your thoughts via Instagram!
Episode details:
06.05 - What we’ve been consuming
12.15 - Colleen Hoover
37.02-45.42 - Game Time
01.01.38 - Other Colleen Hoover books
01.08.21 - Blonde Moment
Join us as we talk all about our favourite beginnings and endings of films and books, the sad, happy, satisfying and maybe not so…
Let us know your faves too!
Hear our thoughts about a range of contemporary fiction, including Mr Salary; Cleopatra and Frankenstein; The Yellow Kitchen; Send Nudes; Daddy.
We're back for Series Four!
Join us (Ceri and Ella) as we chat about one of our fave play, Tennessee Williams' 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and the 2022/2023 Almeida Theatre production directed by Rebecca Frecknall starring Paul Mescal, Patsy Ferran, and Anjana Vasan.
Episode details:
05.25- What We've Been Consuming
12.17- A Streetcar Named Desire
35.46- Game Time (interval)
1.07.12- Blonde Moment
Join us for the Season 3 finale, where we chat all things children's literature! Hear us reminisce about our favourite children's books and share our thoughts on the Roald Dahl saga.
We're back with the second half of our book club questions. Listen in to hear us discuss our favourite time periods to read about, non-prose fiction, and who we think is the writer of our times.
Thank you again to George and Ella for joining us.
Happy listening!
All books mentioned are linked on our blog.
It's Book Club time!
The week we are joined by special guests Georgina and Ella to anwser a whole new set of book club questions.
all books mentioned are listed on our blog.
Happy listening and tune in next week for part 2!
Let's talkmusic babyy!! We chat about the new series Daisy Jones & The Six before moving on to the recording of Elton John at Dodger Stadium in 2022.
The week we’re heading back to our bookshelves for a literary episode talking about John Williams’ 1965 novel ‘Stoner,’ which follows the ups and downs in the life of an American University academic.
In this episode, we discuss gender in one of Shakespeare's problem plays (via the 2011 RSC production). Check back next week for part 2!
This week we take a bit of a departure from our usual topics and talk about the Netflix true crime film ‘The Good Nurse’.
Episode details:
01.30 - What We’ve Been Consuming
11.30 - Summary
13.05 - Discussion
38.45 - Blonde Moments
Apologies for the few small connection issues but we hope you still enjoy listening.
It's a very literary episode today as we delve into Richard Marsh's 'The Beetle' and Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. We talk all things science, sexuality, Victorian anxieties, and even more. Enjoy!
It's Benoit Blanc time! Tune in to hear us decipher the new Knives Out mystery: Glass Onion.
Happy New Year!
We are kicking off the second half of series 3 with a rundown of our top 3 films and books of 2022. Enjoy!
Episode Details:
03.28 – Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
07.03 – Norwegian Woods by Haruki Murakami
10.20 – It’s Kinda A Funny Story by Ned Villini
14.15 – Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
19.53 – It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
27.44 – I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
32.40 – Honourable Book Mentions
37.35 – The Batman dir. Matt Reeves
42.27 – Bullet Train dir. David Leitch
46.39 – Whiplash dir. Damian Chazelle
51.18 – Everything Everywhere All At Once dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
58.28 – Memento dir. Christopher Nolan
01.03.03 – Darjeeling Limited dir. Wes Anderson
01.09.59 – Honourable Film Mentions
Happy Christmas Eve! Join us for some festive quizzes in our final episode of the year.
Join us for our final festive film episode, where we discuss all things It's a Wonderful Life!
Another Christmas Netflix film today as we talk about Let it Snow (2019) a very heartwarming romantic ensemble Christmas film.
Enjoy!
It's time for our literary Christmas episode where we talk about the 'Vintage Christmas' collection of short stories and poems.
On our second birthday we take a trip back to our roots chatting about the new Netflix Christmas film Falling for Christmas starring Linsay Lohan and Chord Overstreet.
We're back again with another load of festive episodes! We kick things off by chatting about The Grinch (2018).
Our final regular episode of 2022 is here.
This week we bring you some more Victorian novels as we chat about Thomas Hardy’s ‘Jude the Obscure’ and ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’.
Enjoy!
This episode we talk about the film My Policeman starring Harry Styles, Emma Corin, and David Dawson, .
Welcome back to part 2 of our Sally Rooney extravaganza! This episode we talk all things Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You.
Happy Halloween!
For our spooky episode this year we are chatting all about Wilkie Collins' novel 'The Woman in White'. Enjoy!
This week we take on Nella Larson's 1929 novella 'Passing' and the 2021 film of the same name. Both very important and insightful pieces of work about race and 1920s America. we hope you enjoy.
It's our Pride and Prejudice extravaganza! This week, we take on Jane Austen's classic novel and its various adaptations.
Join us as we, alongside the rest of the world, dig into Olivia Wilde's new film 'Don't Worry Darling' starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Gemma Chan, Chris Pine and so many more!
And remember to actually be worried darling.
SPOILER WARNING - this episode is full of spoilers so please do not listen if you do not wish to have the plot twists spoilt.
In our second theatre episode of the series, we discuss the brilliant 2022 production of Chekov's "The Seagull", starring Emilia Clarke.
In our first Sally Rooney episode we discuss her debut novel 'Conversations with Friends' and the recent TV adaptation. Stay tuned for more Rooney content soon!
For our second episode of Season 3, we discuss the hit West End show 2:22 (starring Tom Felton), and some other spooky stories...
Episode one of our new series is here! Join us as we talk about the new adaptation of Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ starring Dakota Johnson.
New episodes every Saturday. Enjoy!
In your series 2 finale we go back to the idea of AI as we discuss the Spike Jonze film 'Her'.
Enjoy!
In the penultimate episode of season 2, we take on Anne Brontë's debut novel, Agnes Grey.
The second instalment of our review of the 2017 National Theatre production of Angels in America (Part 2)!
Join us as we review the 2017 National Theatre production of Angels in America: Millenium Approaches (Part 1)!
Catch up with us as we sit on a Danish hill in the sunshine chatting about all the things we’ve been doing at university with guest Ella M. We chat about all things from gender studies, saving the environment, trees, Sex and the City, fashion, and more!!
In this bookish episode we dive into Emily Bronte's novel 'Wuthering Heights' and attempt to decode the novel (and had a lot of fun doing so!)
Join us for our Meg Ryan episode where we discuss Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail & When Harry Met Sally!
Join us as we put our Shakespeare hats on and attempt to dissect Coriolanus and watch the 2014 National Theatre production featuring Tom Hiddleston.
We have a very special guest join us for our belated Galentine's Day special episode, where we talk all things Julia Roberts (especially Notting Hill)!
In this episode we put our dark academic hats on and talk about Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History' and the 1989 film 'Dead Poet's Society'. Enjoy!
Welcome back to season 2 part 2! We kick off the year by talking about the film The Longest Ride.
Happy Christmas Eve! Join us for the final episode in our Christmas countdown, where we talk about one of our favourite festive films: Nativity.
In our penultimate Christmas episode we talk about Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' and its various adaptations.
We are so excited to bring you our top 10 Christmas songs countdown! Hopefully, we'll introduce you to some new festive tunes alongside the classic hits.
We're going back to our roots in today's episode as we talk about Netflix's new Christmas film Lovehard. Enjoy!
Our Christmas TV specials episode is here! We discuss Strictly Come Dancing, Gavin & Stacey, Miranda, and more...
Join us for the first episode in our 12 Days of Christmas, where we discuss Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol!
This week we chat all things Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the National Theatre 2015 production.
Enjoy!
👻🎃Happy Halloween! 🎃👻
This week we’re getting into the spooky spirt by talking all things ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’.
Enjoy!
Tune in to hear us discuss the 2011 National Theatre production of Frankenstein, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature & Jonny Lee Miller as Dr. Frankenstein.
This week we chat about ‘Klara and the Sun’ Ishiguro’s most recent novel. Alongside a little chat about The Matrix to get our brains going. Enjoy!
Join us as we talk about all things chocolate... that is, film Chocolat and Charlie & the Chocolate Factory!
Welcome to Series 2 of Tea O'Clock with Cella!
In this short intro episode we chat about what's coming up this series and Ben Platt's albums.
Enjoy! And don't forget to follow us on Instagram @teaoclockwithcella
Join us for our final episode of season 1, where we talk about Gavin & Stacey and Across the Universe.
London!
This week we talk you through our recent adventures in London and compare Tim Burton's film adaptation of Sondheim's 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' with Thomas Preskett Prest's tale 'The String of Pearls'.
Enjoy!
Welcome to our Book Club!
This week we are joined by Georgina and Ella M to talk all things books. Find out what books make us cry, laugh and which fictional characters we think we are!
¡ATENCIÓN! Attention, it's Cella and we'd like to mention... our In The Heights (original Broadway production & film) episode is here!
On this episode we chat all things Chicago and catch up with what we have been reading lately.
Enjoy!
This episode we rave about two of our favourite movies... Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman!
This episode we chat about Shadow & Bone, The Midnight Library & The Picture of Dorian Gray!
Join us for our first episode recorded in person!
We chat about the new Netflix film Stowaway, our love for Daniel Dae Kim and other space films (including Marvel). Enjoy!
This episode we discuss the 2021 National Theatre production of Romeo & Juliet and ramble about Shakespeare...
It's Harry Potter week!
Listen to us discuss our fave HP film - Half Blood Prince! Alongside all things Harry Potter and our teenage fandom days.
It's time for... Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging! We chat about one of our favourite movies from when we were younger, and reminisce about our childhood.
In celebration of International Women's Day tune in to listen to us chat about our favourite films featuring strong women!
Here's our first Glee episode.
Listen in to hear Ceri and Ella discuss all things Glee and work through some unpopular opinions!
Happy Galentines Day!
Join us as we have a chilled chat doing quizzes and asking each other deep questions to get to know each other better!
This episode we are joined by a very special guest... Georgina! We get the lowdown on her favourite movies and discuss Rebecca.
Happy New Year! Tune in to hear our thoughts on "Soul" and reveal our New Year's resolutions...
Join us for our final festival film episode, where we'll be discussing Christmas Inheritance and The Christmas Chronicles. Merry Christmas!
Settle in and listen to us discuss two of our favourite festive films: Love Actually and The Holiday!
Grab a cuppa, sit back and relax whilst we chat about two more festive films: The Holidate and The Holiday Calendar!
Settle in with a cuppa and listen to Ella and Ceri sharing their thoughts about Love Guaranteed & Operation Christmas Drop!