On the Empire Podcast this week, Roger Donaldson, director of No Way Out and 13 Days,

drops by the pod booth to talk about his latest movie, McLaren.

Plus, all usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast that wasn't looking.

Somehow you found me, I tried to hide from your love light, but like heaven above me,

the spy who loved me is keeping all my secrets safe tonight.

Hello Roger, wherever you are. Hello pod, I'm Chris, you're welcome to The Empire Podcast,

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This week I'm joined by three colleagues of such lethal cunning, only two of whom have actually

turned up at the time of recording the podcast. So never mind the third, he'll pop in at some point.

But Twin Peaks, we've got Twin Peaks fever this week, and so I'm delighted to welcome our

very own geek queen, our very own log lady who is branching out these days into becoming a pod lady,

you see, and not because she likes to give men wood. It's Heather Haara.

Yes, I have a message from my log here and it says, please stop.

So what? No, no, no, no, you like to give presents of twigs and leaves and stuff to men.

What did you think I meant? I mean, I thought that that was it, but it just seemed like a really

odd thing to say. Yeah, well, you know, I'd just like to keep the listeners informed.

Next up is our very own Jurassic World co-star, a man who has escaped from the red room to come in here

and talk backwards or it seems like it's backwards for the next hour. So it's Nick the

Semiconductor. How are you? O'Lay, which is hello backwards. I had to write that down to make

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