Radiothon 2026

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Zero-G 1604# Beware My Podder, Green Lantern's Light!

We step off the pavement with David Robert Mitchell's new dinosaur movie THE END OF OAK STREET, open the shutter on D.C's LANTERNS television series (HBO MAX), take a preliminary look at the…

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Zero-G 1603# Rest In Podder

Focusing upon the genre aspects of their careers we farewell beloved creatives: Hayden Panettiere, Peter Cullen, Dolly Parton and Tim Curry.

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Zero-G 1602# Small Baby Podato Stuff, Not Big Podato Brain Stuff

Enjoy the thwip with Destin Cretton's new MCU movie, SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY and survive your stay at Jane Schoenbrun's horror-com TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA.

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Zero G 1601# Happy Pod-day Deep Space Station Triple R

We celebrate 3RRR FM's 50th Birthday and the Triple R Radiothon by giving away notional gold genre items* for subscriptions made during today's show. (*Notional Curses may apply to certain items!) Plus: News…

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Zero G 1600# Filmed In State-Of-The-Art Podovision

We go MIFFING again, pulling focus on works from the 2026 Melbourne International Film Fesitval we've seen, including: CHRONOVISOR, REPLICA, MUM-I'M ALIEN PREGNANT, CROCODILE, GHOST IN THE CELL, and YESTERDAY ISLAND.

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Zero G 1599# Pody(ssey) Bits 'N Robs

Further inspired by Nolan's ODYSSEY we voyage to Director Mario Camerini's 1954 movie Ulysses, and check out trailers and Hall H announcements from the San Diego Comic Convention, 2026.

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Zero G 1598# Podysseus

We take the scenic route Homer through the Greek Islands with Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY and a goatskin full of other screen adaptations of the iconic epic poem.

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Zero G 1597# Pod It On Screen

As is our annual tradition (since 1994), we scry the screen of the 2026 Melbourne International Film Festival with the Zero-G Genre Filter. See Zero-G's Facebook page for written film pick lists. https://www.facebook.com/ZeroGRadio/

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Zero G 1596# There’s Something In The Pod!

We bravely wade out into Season 1 of the comedy/horror series WIDOW'S BAY (APPLE +) and shout "Booray! Ollywood" with Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda's new entry in the DESPICABLE ME/MINIONS saga MINIONS…

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Zero G 1595# Supodgirl

We listen to Matt Dinniman's audiobook DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL (Also in print as an ACE BOOK, from PENGUIN), and seek "Truth, Justice, Whatever" with Director Craig Gillespie's new D.C.U movie, SUPERGIRL.

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Zero G 1594# Toy Poddy

We go sailing some more through three decades of the TOY STORY toy box, with a googly eye to Director Andrew Stanton's newest entry in the saga, TOY STORY 5, now before us…

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Zero G 1593# Podsession

Winter chills with Curry Barker's "Be careful what you wish for" movie OBSESSION (in cinemas now), Genki Kawamura's liminally loopy EXIT 8 (streaming for rent or purchase), and Kane Parsons' limitlessly liminal BACKROOMS.

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Zero G 1592# 55 Pod 5, In A Triangle

Probing questions asked of occupants of interplanetary craft with Steven Spielberg's DISCLOSURE DAY, who you gonna call in DISPATCH the superhero workplace game (ADHOC STUDIOS) and we farewell genre author Jane Yolen.

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Zero G 1591# Spectacle Poddishing

Noir Way? YES Way for SPIDER-NOIR (AMAZON PRIME), genre pics from ABC CLASSIC'S ALL TIME GREATEST 100, and we farewell British Actor, Singer and Musician Anthony Stewart Head.

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Zero G 1590# With No Podders Comes No Repoddability

We collect the bounty on Jon Favreau's THE MANDOLORIAN AND GROGU, and bid farewell to BLAKE'S SEVEN actor, Michael Keating.

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Zero G 1589# Superpowers

We have a butchers at the season five and series finale of the dystopic superpowered show, THE BOYS. (AMAZON PRIME)

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Zero G 1588# Poditzer Prize

We survey Eurovision 2026 for genre content, and check out Daniel Kraus's cross genre Pulitzer Prize winning novel, ANGEL DOWN.

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Zero G 1587# I Still Think it's A Pod

Ewe knew we would flock to director Kyle Balda's anthropomorphic fantasy movie THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, and also drive into the John Griffin created science fiction (?) horror series, FROM (Streaming on STAN).

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Zero G 1586# Widow's Pod

Come what may, in May (new content streaming and at the cinema) plus we look at horror comedy series WIDOW'S BAY (APPLE TV) and Yorgos Lanthimos adapts a South Korean black comedy alien…

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Zero G 1585# Pod Laureate

We swing by the SPIDER-MAN NOIR series trailer (AMAZON PRIME), glove up with the 2026 revival series of SCRUBS (DISNEY+), preview FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL AUSTRALIA 2026, recite Ian McEwan's Science Fiction novel WHAT…

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Zero G 1584# Who Wants To Pod Forever

Nasty nuptials with Haley Z. Boston's SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN (NETFLIX) and Richard Schenkman's long-lived JEROME BIXBY'S THE MAN FROM EARTH & THE MAN FROM EARTH: HOLOCENE (AMAZON PRIME)

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Zero-G 1583# Crocodile Eddy

Oh the humidity! We head North for DEADLOCH: SEASON 2 (AMAZON PRIME), congratulate ARTEMIS II, and bullseye DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN - SEASON 2 (DISNEY+)

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Zero G #1582 Two Pod

MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS comic book assembles 800 issues, ARTEMIS II and the first manned trip to the Moon in fifty years, set sail on the Grand Line for ONE PIECE SEASON 2, live…

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Zero G #1581 Space Pod

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's PROJECT HAIL MARY movie adaptation kicks goals, the MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S ART OF THE SCORE: JAMES HORNER concert, and genre highlights of this year's MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL.

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Zero G #1580 The Adventure Of The Unpodded Adventures

Watson today's episode? Rob Lloyd's MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL, show HOLMES UNBOUND: THE LOST CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, no stylish-yet-afordable-boots for the Buffy Reboot, Oscar genre gongs and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Concert…

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Zero G #1579 Not A Pod

On today’s show: Missing DOCTOR WHO episodes, found! FIREFLY re-‘Toons! YOUNG SHERLOCK (PRIME), and the new POKEMON game, POKOPIA (GAME FREAK)

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Zero G #1578 The Pod Returns

After a flyover of small and large screen genre, Shailee Thompson explains HOW TO KILL A GUY IN TEN DATES (ATRIA IMPRINT OF SIMON SHUSTER - 2026), and we chill out with two…

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Zero G #1577 We Podda Get Out Of This Place

Today, we look at Streaming drops, the latest episode of STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY (PARAMOUNT +), dino rage with Luke Sparke's PRIMITIVE WAR (NETFLIX), engage Victoria Mahoney's THE OLD GUARD II (NETFLIX) and…

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Zero G #1576 Off To The Podture Palace

We chat with the Simon Foster, Director of the Melbourne Science Fiction Film Festival, which starts at Cinema Nova next week in March, 2026, and also drill down into specific films, including: ALUCINA…

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Zero G #1575 The Pod Of Elsewhere

We cast no shade on GODZILLA MINUS ONE streaming in B&W (NETFLIX), find that there can be only two with a tale of an immortal warrior in Keanu Reeves and China Miéville's THE…

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Zero G #1574 The Muppod Show

Today we overfly the M.C.U for 2026, appreciate the latest IRON MAN comic (MARVEL COMICS), light the lights on the new MUPPET SHOW special (DISNEY+), audit STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY (DISNEY+) and farewell…

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Zero G #1573 You'll Never See Him Podding

We contract Christina Sweeney-Baird's pandemic novel, THE END OF MEN (2021 HARPERCOLLINS), an overview of the 2025 MCU, and we wonder at Marvel's Wonder Man (DISNEY+)

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Zero G #1572 The Seven Pods

We midsummarise the genre gems of Melbourne's MIDSUMMA FESTIVAL, chat with David Innes, co-creator of genre play BEV AND MYRT AND THE SCROLL OF DOOM (MIDSUMMA), get plucky with AGATHA CHRISTIE'S SEVEN DIALS…

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Zero G #1571 Poddle Rain!

In our first show for 2025 we get on the walkies and take a last bicycle ride with the STRANGER THINGS finale (NETFLIX), "See" AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, haunt the BBC GHOSTS (Various…

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Zero G #1570 On The Eleventh Day Of Christmas, the Demopodgon Gave To Me!

In our last episode for 2025 we get Upside of the final season of the Duffer Bothers' STRANGER THINGS (NEFTLIX), and weaponize Zach Cregger's horror movie WEAPONS. Thanks to Triple R's amazing Staff…

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Zero G #1569 There's No Pod Like Home!

In our penultimate 2025 show we go WICKED FOR GOOD with Jon M. Chu's new film, and play the SPOOKY DOORWAY/RAW FURY video game THE SEANCE OF BLAKE MANOR.

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Zero G #1568 Podmythesis Unbound

We unstitch Guillermo del Toro's new cinematic adaptation of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN (NETFLIX) and lurch through some choice Frankentunes.

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Zero G #1567 Building Better Pods

Stalking Dan Trachtenberg's new S.F/Horror movie PREDATOR: BADLANDS and becoming one with Vince Gilligan's new S.F series PLUR1BUS (PRIME, APPLE+)

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Zero G #1566 Podderwrack

Today we're crimped beneath the high seas with Co-Director/Writer/Production Designer Adam Browne and Shan't-ist Samuel Thomas-Holland, from the production BLADDERWRACK, at the Explosive Factory, St. Kilda, until the 15th November.

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Zero G #1565 Podyo By The Score

Joe Hisaishi's soundtracks and chill today, with presenter Andrew Pogson (co-host of The Art Of The Score Podcast) chatting about the Maestro's iconic body of work and the upcoming Melbourne Symphony Orchestra of…