Level up or game over for SUPER MARIO GALAXY?

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Apr 2, 2026

Hugh Bonneville, veteran British actor known for Downton Abbey and Paddington, chats about reprising Ian Fletcher in the new series 2026 and his stage work in Shadowlands. They delve into the show's bureaucracy humour, the pressures of scripting and rehearsal, and the sly World Cup-adjacent jokes. Plus a brisk take on Super Mario Galaxy and how it lands for fans.

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ANECDOTE

ChatGPT Hallucinated Radio One History

Simon Mayo shared amusing ChatGPT errors claiming he and Phil Jupitus were first openly gay Radio One hosts, illustrating AI hallucinations.
He recounted the model contradicting itself and giving incorrect historical claims.

INSIGHT

Thought Crimes Drive The Drama's Satire

The Drama uses a single drunken confession game to expose how society punishes thought rather than action.
Mark Kermode found the film excruciatingly funny and praised Zendaya and Robert Pattinson for anchoring a sharp bourgeois political satire.

ANECDOTE

Science Teacher Flags Small Errors In Hail Mary

Mark and Simon discussed Project Hail Mary with a science-teacher listener who flagged small scientific nitpicks.
The letter highlighted meiosis vs mitosis and xenon state comments, prompting light-hearted technical scrutiny.

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First up, there’s The Drama, a black comedy starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya as a soon-to-be-married couple whose romantic bliss is derailed by a shocking confession. Then more white-knuckle stuff in Fuze—a bomb disposal meets heist thriller starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James and Sam Worthington. On a much more colourful note, we’ve got Super Mario Galaxy—but will this latest screen outing for the videogame franchise be a level up or game over?

On the small screen, the spotlight turns to the BBC’s Twenty Twenty Six—a brand new sequel series that catches up with Hugh Bonneville’s Ian Fletcher in all his bureaucratic glory. This time he’s been appointed ‘Head of Integrity’ on the organizing committee for an international football tournament taking place in summer 2026, which definitely isn’t the FIFA World Cup. Simon sits down with the ever-charming Hugh to unpack the series—plus a word on his latest stage outing in Shadowlands, and little bit of Downton chat too.

All that, along with the usual listener correspondence and presenter cantankerousness—you won’t want to miss this one.

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