(October 2025) We’ve made some updates to our terms and conditions regarding ads and monetisation, and have set out our AI policy. Find this at our about/contact page.

We’ve consolidated our episodes on Elvis That’s The Way It Is into one omnibus edit with some additional content, and have also updated and expanded the webpage to accommodate the new version. This new edit appears on all our platforms with the exception of SoundCloud.

We’ve created an omnibus edit of our original series on Aloha From Hawaii, streaming now on YouTube and all the usual pod places with the exception of SoundCloud, where we’ve retained the original episodes in their existing playlist.

George was recently a guest on The Bill Podcast, talking to Patrick Stratford;

Gary Wells has been back in Memphis, and has posted a great multimedia presentation on his website, including details of his latest visit to Graceland and other important cultural sites. Lots of fascinating insights, travel tips, images and video to enjoy. Check out Walking in Memphis

We’re continuing to upload some clips and shorts on YouTube on Elvis and from our catalogue featuring Oliver Crocker.

Selected shorts are now available on YouTube;

We’re currently working through our series on Aloha From Hawaii and uploading clips on YouTube Podcasts: Here is the playlist.

There are now a collection of clips from our very first episode on Elvis That’s The Way It Is available on YouTube – link to the playlist here.

The last upload on YouTube Podcasts for 2023. All future episodes will be uploaded on YouTube at the same time as they are published here and on our podcast platforms. A very merry Christmas and happy New Year to all our readers and listeners, thank you for your support, and see you next year with our Winter Dance Party episode.

Latest on YouTube Podcasts:

Our new curated playlist page organises our episodes and clips by topic and contributor.

The latest addition to our YouTube playlist is a clip featuring Gary Wells’ visit to 1034 Audubon Drive and Sun Records in Memphis, taken from our Memphis to Vegas episode.

In our Elvis and the Press episode with Gary Wells, we were delighted to be joined for the first time by talented and successful UK voiceover artist, Alistair McMillan, to read some of the reviews and background information we were discussing.

Selected DEC4 episodes are being uploaded to Mixcloud. We are also on Amazon and Audible, as well as the usual major platforms; and, as we’re discovering, quite a few places we didn’t even realise!

A recommended read on our leading contributor Gary Wells’ own site is this review of Tommy James’ autobiography; Me, the Mob and the Music. We often think of Colonel Parker as the definitive cartoon villain in music and talent management (not entirely without good reason), but Tommy James’ relationship with Morris Levy and Roulette Records provides some interesting perspective.

Gary has also written a great piece on the 1987 Ritchie Valens biopic, La Bamba, and singles out the stunning performance of Esai Morales. Link here.

Gary featured most recently here in our clip episode, Backstage with the Beach Boys. We also recommend a great conversation Gary had on Donna Loren’s Love’s A Secret Weapon podcast.

Gary has also been working on a series of articles about American actors working in European cinema, including Burt Reynolds, inspired by the experiences of Rick Dalton in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Gary’s recent take on the 2019 Martin Scorsese movie, The Irishman, is a thoroughly recommended read.

(September 2025) Our dear friend and contributor Oliver Crocker is celebrating an incredible milestone – The Bill Podcast has now surpassed 500 000 plays, according to Listen Notes in the top 1.5 percent globally.

The Bill (Thames / ITV) revolutionised television drama and ran for nearly 2500 episodes from its pilot, Woodentop, in 1983, to its final episode in 2010.

Through interviews, commentaries and discussions, Oliver has created an extensive oral history of a remarkable television programme, in the words of the artists and crew who made it.

Search the Bill Podcast on your chosen podcast platform, and Devonfire Books online for a library of companion volumes and British television tie-ins. You can also join Oliver’s subscription service on Patreon, with over 200 hours of additional content and a great community spirit.

Huge congratulations to Oliver for his hard work, dedication and success.

Letter From Helvetica now has a new SoundCloud home as part of The Bill Podcast. It is still available on Apple, Spotify and all the major platforms.

A Christmas special of Letter From Helvetica in production.

Gainesville’s showreel on YouTube:

The complete Letter From Helvetica Series II playlist;

Series Two of Letter From Helvetica is now streaming.

Fresh up on The Bill Podcast, a replay of a 2020 interview with BBC Suffolk featuring Oliver Crocker.

Gainesville are now on Soundcloud!

Our friend Oliver Crocker has been interviewed on BBC Radio York, about his book, All Memories Great and Small, an acclaimed account of the making of one of Britain’s favourite television series, All Creatures Great and Small. Listen via the The Bill Podcast feed;

More from Devonfire Books;

“…Larry Dann’s acting career began with a knock on the door, when a seven year old schoolboy was talent scouted by London’s Corona Academy and invited to be in a film shooting at Denham Studios. This was the start of a career that saw him perform in hundreds of stage productions all over the world, star in four of the iconic Carry On movies and become a household name as Sgt. Alec Peters in ITV’s The Bill…”

The latest release from Devonfire Books, Edward Kellett’s Reaching a Verdict: Reviewing The Bill 1983-1989, is available now.

Oliver Crocker’s The Bill Podcast is now hosted by Natalie Roles, who played DS Debbie McAllister in nearly 200 episodes of the legendary ITV drama. Following the recent podcast relaunch, it has cracked the Top 40 in Apple’s film and television genre, and is in the top 1.5 % of podcasts globally.

Natalie Roles is currently starring in the scripted audio series, Letter From Helvetica, written by and also starring fellow The Bill alumni Andrew Mackintosh (DS Alistair Greig). Episodes are available on the major podcasting platforms, and the series is produced by Oliver Crocker.

Both are proudly co-sponsored by George Fairbrother and DEC4.

We’re delighted to report that Letter From Helvetica has been nominated for a Listeners’ Choice gong at the British Podcast Awards. Series two is on the way!

…And that The Bill Podcast, with Natalie Roles hosting, just keeps getting bigger and bigger.