Review: Alien Earth series plus Rom-Com Materialists
Aug 07, 2025•41 min
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Episode description
Noah Hawley talks about creating Alien: Earth which is the first ever TV series based on the blockbuster Alien films created by Ridley Scott. Film critic Rhianna Dhillon and poet and editor Tristram Fane Saunders join Tom Sutcliffe to review the series.
They also review Celine Song's new romantic comedy-drama Materialists starring Dakota Johnson as a New York Matchmaker.
And John Burnside's final collection of poetry, The Empire of Forgetting.
Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Claire Bartleet
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