Goodbye June: Life, death and Nativity plays with Andrea Riseborough and Timothy Spall

Kate Winslet's directorial debut is not your typical Christmas movie. It's set mostly in a hospital, as a family gather around their dying matriarch (Helen Mirren), and features more IVs than holly-and-ivy. But it has a truly impressive cast and a surprising amount of heart and humour. To talk about it, your host Helen O'Hara is joined by Empire's news editor, Beth Webb. We also have a visit from two of the cast, in the delightful forms of Andrea Riseborough and Timothy Spall, so settle in for a surprising amount of cheer given the subject matter. Goodbye June is out in cinemas now, and will be available on Netflix from December 24. For more from Beth, you can find her @BethWebb on Bluesky and @bethkatewebb on Instagram, and of course at Empire Magazine . For more from Helen, you can find here on Bluesky @HelenLOHara, or at helenohara.com . Her latest books, A Quentin Tarantino Dictionary and 50 Film Ideas You Really Need To Know, are available now, and Women Vs Hollywood: The Fall And Rise Of Women In Film remains on sale. This podcast is produced and edited by Helen O'Hara with Stripped Media. For more on this podcast, and others produced by Stripped Media, please visit www.stripped.media or email producers@stripped.media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices