On the Empire Podcast this week, we turn 450!

Oh yes indeed folks, and we celebrate with close personal chums, Paul Greengrass, director

of News of the World and Kevin McDonald, director of Life in a Day 2020. Plus, the usual

news and nonsense on the movie podcast might be about to burn down the pod booth. 450

candles does constitute a fire hazard after all. Hello pod, I'm Chris Hutt and welcome

to the 450th episode of the Empire Podcast. Yes indeed, 450, not only is that the combined

age of three members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, it is also, that's not

the last sick burn to be thrown away. This episode, let me tell you, it is also the number

of episodes we have clocked up over the years 450, which given that we take two weeks off

every year because we're lazy, it means we've been doing this for nine years, nine years

folks, nine. Next year when we hit 500, we'll have to hire Jeremy Piven, he may be on

Cameo, I know this, he's coming, and yell 10 years, 10, 10 years, 10 years. But for now

you have to make do with me and two colleagues of such lethal cunning, and yes I know we usually

have three, we have someone in the rotating fourth chair, but for this episode it felt

right to be keep it to the OGE as they say, for nine years ago, four of us, including

Ali Plum, walked into a studio at Empire Towers, sat down without telling the editor we

were doing it, but that's another story, and started giggling like idiots into a microphone

luckily, someone recorded it, poor man luckily as it turns out, put it out as a podcast

and now nine years on, Ali has moved on to bigger things of course, but the rest of us

are stuck here in a kind of time loop, a purgatory almost if you will doom to repeat the same

old shit over and over and over and over again. So please welcome the last surviving original

members of the Good Ship Empire podcast, geek queen, Helena Harrah. Hello, I hope that

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