I podcast this week at another jam packed bumper-sized affair as we talk to a whole bunch

of incredible guests, as Elvis Presley once sang, that's the wonder of Pew.

Yes, it's Florence Pugh and Sebastian Lillio, star and director of the wonder.

When there's Irish rising star, Bud Jesus, and Bigora, so there is, Paul Mescal, star

of After Sun, maybe half an hour in heaven before the devil knows your dead, and we're

visited by two of the spirits of the new Christmas Carol adaptation, spirited, Will Ferrell,

and Octavia Spencer, all that and more on the movie podcast that has come down with a

severe sore throat and is on the verge of losing its voice, so has roped in Siri to read

the opening intro instead, with hilarious results. Wish or you'll agree, ha ha, Teehee,

lull now take a pause Siri before saying the next bit, no Siri don't read that bit out.

Good God, what am I paying you for hello Pod I'm Chris Huitt, and welcome to the Empire

podcast this week. I am mostly sick with the dreaded lurgy, so I am going to go and lie

down now and leave you in the capable hands of Helen O'Hara. Helen, it's over to you,

don't fuck it up, wait, I didn't ask Siri to say that, oh God the machines are becoming

self-aware. Good God, good God. And now go Helen, go, and this is actually what I sound

like, so yes, bye, I'm going to lie down, go take your painkillers and go, you're

going to fly, I'm going to fly real high. Oh boy, well that was Chris Huitt, I am Helen

O'Hara and welcome once again to the Empire podcast brought to you this week by suspected

tons of lightest I suppose. So thank God we are not all in the same small germ filled

room, we are recording remotely today. So if you hear strange noises in the background,

that's the weird man outside my window doing something with a machinery or something,

it's a very unclear. Or it might be the noise of a cinema in central London or it might

...