Podcast
The world's first spaghetti western podcast! The SWDb highly recommends this as your regular Friday date. Tune in to Once Upon a Time in Spaghetti Westerns.
- Hosts: Jay Jennings, Tom Betts
- Air time: Fridays 3pm EST, 9pm GMT+2 (EU)
- Join us with feedback and ideas: Forum discussion
- Like and follow: Official Facebook page
- Subscribe: Official YouTube channel
Episode Guide
- <a href="#ep16">Episode 16</a>
- <a href="#ep15">Episode 15</a>
- <a href="#ep14">Episode 14</a>
- <a href="#ep13">Episode 13</a>
- <a href="#ep12">Episode 12</a>
- <a href="#ep11">Episode 11</a>
- <a href="#ep10">Episode 10</a>
- <a href="#ep9">Episode 9</a>
- <a href="#ep8">Episode 8</a>
- <a href="#ep7">Episode 7</a>
- <a href="#ep6">Episode 6</a>
- <a href="#ep5">Episode 5</a>
- <a href="#ep4">Episode 4</a>
- <a href="#ep3">Episode 3</a>
- <a href="#ep2">Episode 2</a>
- <a href="#ep1">Episode 1</a>
Topic of the show: The Sergios
Watch archived recording (106min): YouTube, Facebook
Show notes:
- Covering nine other Sergios
- coming soon
Topic of the show: American Bad Guys in Spaghetti Westerns
Watch archived recording (124min): YouTube, Facebook
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- coming soon
Topic of the show: The films of William Berger
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- coming soon
Topic of the show: The films of Peter Lee Lawrence
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- coming soon
- Peter Lee Lawrence
Topic of the show: The Django movies
Watch archived recording (96min): YouTube, Facebook
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- Django (character) an article about the mysticism and origins of the character, and a list of real and imagined sequels and spin-offs
- Title chaos, our list of international AKA titles, where you will find hundreds of Django movies
Topic of the show: A Fistful of Locations! The locations of the Dollars Trilogy then and now
Watch archived recording (85min): YouTube, Facebook
Show notes:
- Jay and Tom show photos from the Dollars trilogy, then and now, and Tom reports of his own visits to Spain and of the experiences some others had visiting them.
- As a special bonus, Jay shows the then-and-now collage by Herve Attia (2013) and Tom comments over it
- The SWDb is working on extending our location database
- Book mentioned: La Almería de Sergio Leone offering extensive location descriptions with GPS locations; some others are Fistfuls of Dollars in Almeria and Once Upon a Time in Almería: The Legacy of Hollywood in Spain (which is more of a coffee table book)
Topic of the show: The first ever Spaghetti Western Authors Roundtable with special guests Ulrich Bruckner, Howard Hughes and Lee Broughton
Watch archived recording (85min): Facebook, YouTube
Show notes:
- About Ulrich P. Bruckner: Owner of Explosive Media, former Sony Pictures and Koch Films. Author of Für ein paar Leichen mehr and Leichen pflastern ihren Weg (which was a compact version of the other, and included in a Koch Films Sollima box set). We also have an older Interview with Ulrich Bruckner of Koch Media. He lives in Austra.
- About Lee Broughton: Lee is the author of The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the Other in Film and the editor of Critical Perspectives on the Western: From a Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained and Reframing Cult Westerns: From The Magnificent Seven to The Hateful Eight as well as contributor to a number of works including Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation. He lives in England.
- About Howard Hughes: You may know the Howard Hughes' Top 20 spaghetti westerns list we have. He is the author of Once Upon a Time in the Italian West and Spaghetti Westerns. He also authored Mario Bava: Destination Terror and Cinema Italiano
Topic of the show: The Spaghetti Westerns of Fernando Sancho
Watch archived recording (113min): YouTube, Facebook
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- Coming soon
Topic of the show: This week's special guest is Brett Halsey
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Topic of the show: Klaus Kinski (first few minutes covering the rest of the ladies from the last episode)
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Topic of the show: Spaghetti Western actresses
Watch archived recording (110min): YouTube, Facebook
Show notes:
- The SWDb has an Actresses A - Z index, check it out.
This week's topic is alternate English titles.
Watch archived recording (min): Facebook, YouTube
Show notes:
- Check out International titles, Title chaos and English Titles for your research
Underrated directors are the topic of this fourth episode, as the podcast celebrates its first month.
Watch archived recording (min): YouTube, Facebook
Show notes:
- Among the comments on YouTube is a list of mentioned directors and films with minute marks.
The show has a special guest, none other than Robert Woods!
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Show notes:
- Robert Woods page on the SWDb
- Also check out An Interview With Robert Woods and Robert Woods and Marc Fiorini on El Puro both contributed by Phil H
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Disclaimer: This is an unofficial archive and reference page for this podcast. Show notes are not necessarily compiled in cooperation with the hosts. The podcast is not an official SWDb product or project, but wholeheartedly supported by it.