Toby's Film Club Podcast - Coming Soon

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That's right, I'm starting a podcast! Every Wednesday for the next 8 weeks, I will be releasing an episode discussing something related to Film, I'll go over upcoming films or film news, then every episode have a feature where I discuss something in Film that interests me. The first Season will be 8 Episodes - the first of which releasing on Tuesday 20th September continuing every Tuesday until the 8th November.

I am also hoping to get guests on the show for later on in the podcast - in a possible second season. You can listen to the trailer here: Toby's Film Club - Trailer, or on Spotify. Don't worry if you forget the release of an episode! I will also be posting them here every week.

Thanks for reading, Toby

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