Hosts In The Shell
by Jon Richter and Matt Adcock
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Warhammer 40k, 2000 AD and... Space Wumbles?? (With comic book…
Warhammer 40k, 2000 AD and... Space Wumbles?? (With comic book…
About this podcast
The podcast where Jon Richter and Matt Adcock, writers and cyberpunk fans, discuss the genre's greatest works, as well as interviewing other cyberpunk creators.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 77 episodes
- Warhammer 40k, 2000 AD and... Space Wumbles?? (With comic book artist Jim Hobbs) · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 76The lads are delighted to chat to up-and-coming, painfully talented and irritatingly young artist Jim Hobbs about comic book art, working with bands and writers (including some…
- Flashback · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 75Paul Cuisset's early 90s cinematic video game masterpiece is undoubtedly cyberpunk, pulling from all manner of movie inspirations of the time. Tune in to here the Hosts discuss…
- An interview with synthwave megastars New Arcades (creators of the theme tune to RoboDoc!) · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 74Interviewing musicians is always an absolute treat, especially when we're already big fans!! New Arcades are a synthwave duo who've been making music since before that genre was…
- The Running Man (with cyberpunk writer, architect and spaceship designer Jim Keen!) · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 73It's an honour to welcome back returning guest and brilliant writer Jim Keen to talk about his fascinating new art project, as well as to compare and contrast the 1987 and 2025…
- The Ghost In The Shell (2026) · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 72For full disclosure, although our podcast name is a pun on the title of this seminal manga and its myriad adaptations, we don't purport to be absolute experts - in truth, like…
- An interview with Richard K Morgan, author of Altered Carbon! (Part 2) · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 71Put on your best sleeve and join us for part 2 of our interview with the legendary Richard K Morgan, author of Altered Carbon as well as a HOST (see what we did there) of other…
- An interview with Richard K Morgan, author of Altered Carbon! (Part 1) · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 70It isn't often you get to interview a person that meets the following criteria: i) Is a literary hero and writer of some of the best books ever ii) Is cyberpunk royalty iii) Is a…
- Fallout (season 2) · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 69The last time we talked about Fallout, we crammed in the entire video game series, some spinoffs, and of course the first season of the hugely popular Amazon Prime TV series!!…
- Philip K. Dick (with multi-award-winning cyberpunk author T R Napper) · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 68Who could be more cyberpunk than the man who wrote Blade Runner (aka Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall (aka We Can Remember It For You Wholesale), Minority…
- Robocop (the 2014 remake) · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 67You've probably heard Jon talk about Robocop about five million times, because he loves the film so much he's probably seen it about that many times... but you'll rarely have…
- An interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time and Shadows of the Apt · 43 min · Season 3 Episode 66We are honoured and delighted to welcome another big-hitting literary guest to our humble show, this time celebrated British sci-fi and fantasy writer Adrian Tchaikovsky! Famed…
- Streets of Rage · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 65Not cyberpunk?? Pffffffft we'll be the judges of that! And anyway, who can begrudge us an episode to enthuse about arguably the greatest beat-em-up of all time... just watch out…
- An interview with Bruce Bethke, author of 'Cyberpunk' (and inventor of the word!) · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 64The term 'legend' gets bandied about... but today's guest absolutely 100% meets the necessary criteria, having invented the word 'cyberpunk' as the title of his seminal 1980…
- Mad Max · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 63The lads are back, this time to chat about George Miller's iconic Mad Max movies!! Get ready for a guzzoline-soaked race through a wasteland that's anything but MEDIOCRE!!!!!
- An interview with Hugh Howey, creator of the Silo series · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 62No daft puns this time: it's an interview with Hugh Howey, the phenomenally talented, staggeringly successful, and astoundingly likeable writer, known primarily for his smash hit…
- Short Circuit · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 61Is this the least cyberpunk thing we've ever covered? Probably! Does it feature a loveable robot who inarguably embodies the true spirit of badass punk?? Possibly!! Is there one…
- Cyberpunk villains (with Tim Standish) · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 60The baddies are always the best characters... but which of cyberpunk's rogues' gallery deserve the title of all-time greatest? Tune in to hear the lads joined by brilliant writer…
- I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 59In today's episode, Matt and Jon are chatting about Harlan Ellison's massively influential 1967 short story, as well as its 1995 video game adaptation! In a typically rambling…
- Elysium (with Phil Stitelmann) · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 58Today's topic is another gem of a cyberpunk movie, Neill Blomkamp's Elysium, and today's guest is a gem of a cyberpunk writer, the prolific Phil Stitelmann! Tune in for a…
- Alien: Earth · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 57If the lads had been able to think of a suitable pun, this podcast probably would have been named after Alien instead of Ghost In The Shell; that's how much they love this…
