Robert Daws on books, acting and what a writer needs from a literary festival

Guitarist and multi instrumentalist Joe Calderon

Talent spills from every pore from this month's guest - Joe Calderon. What an incredibly friendly, good guy to talk to. If you want to know about dedication to music and versatility, he's the guy. He talks about writing songs, getting back to performing and trying to locate the right files from various recorders dotted around his house ! That and some laconic and well produced comedy.

Kenny Thomas baring his soul, possible AI scenarios and Mac at The Movies

I first got to chat to Kenny Thomas back in 1993. He was touring around commercial radio to promote " Stay " and even then had so many great stories and was incredibly approachable. It's so good to re connect after all this time and hear about his new autobiography " Baring my Soul ". Random facts you never knew has some scintillating pearlers about a former member of Blue and Home-A-Corona runs a brand new quiz called Mac at The Movies. Answers please to john@onairjohn.com

Robert Daws on books, acting and what a writer needs from a literary festival

The Royal, Outside Edge, Roger Roger, theatre credits, indie films and a crime writing podcast is a much condensed version of Robert Daws' CV. LIsten to Robert's stories, opinions and anecdotes on what it is to be a hugely experienced actor and what paved the way for his desire to write. And to think his Wife Amy thought I was a rogue builder.

Academy Award nominated composer Nicholas Brittel, Celebrity Masterchef and The Krustycycle

He's scored If Beale Street Could Talk, Moonlight, The Big Short and Succession - he's the vastly talented composer Nicholas Brittel who lets John in on why he writes the way he does. Baga Chipz is one of the " stars " of the current series of Celebrity Masterchef in the UK and Home-A-Corona just had to have a pop. Also, we've details on what the reopening of pubs in model villages means and the usual shouts are in there too.

Post Covid-19 film production, Liam Neeson uncut and the Tangled conspiracy disentangled

Anthony Stepniak from the University of Northampton has a bunch of thoughts about how Hollywood moves on from the pandemic, what the arts scene will probably look like and spends 14 minutes not taking a selfie. It's a record for Anthony. John wangs on about a podcasting forum on Facebook where you're not allowed to talk about your podcast and how much of a stretch is it to see Tangled as a prediction of the outbreak ? If we could show you some kind of graph of the stretchy continuum then it wouldn't be much of one.