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The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr


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It’s the very first episode of The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr and our first guest is Phil Wang! And Phil’s subgenre is…This Place is Evil. We’re talking psychological torture, we’re talking gory death scenes, we’re talking Lorraine Kelly?! The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr is a brand new comedy podcast where each week a different celebrity guest pitches an idea for a film based on one of the SUPER niche sub-genres on Netflix. From ‘Steamy Crime Movies from the 1970s’ to ‘Australian Dysfunctional Family Comedies Starring A Strong Female Lead’, our celebrity guests will pitch their wacky plot, their dream cast, the marketing stunts, and everything in between. By the end of every episode, Jimmy Carr, Comedian by night / “Netflix Executive” by day, will decide whether the pitch is greenlit or condemned to development hell! Listen on all podcast platforms and watch on the Netflix Is A Joke YouTube Channel . The Big Pitch is a co-production by Netflix and BBC Studios Audio. Jimmy Carr is an award-winning stand-up comedian and writer, touring his brand-new show JIMMY CARR: LAUGHS FUNNY throughout the USA from May to November this year, as well as across the UK and Europe, before hitting Australia and New Zealand in early 2026. All info and tickets for the tour are available at JIMMYCARR.COM Production Coordinator: Becky Carewe-Jeffries Production Manager: Mabel Finnegan-Wright Editor: Stuart Reid Producer: Pete Strauss Executive Producer: Richard Morris Executive Producers for Netflix: Kathryn Huyghue, Erica Brady, and David Markowitz Set Design: Helen Coyston Studios: Tower Bridge Studios Make Up: Samantha Coughlan Cameras: Daniel Spencer Sound: Charlie Emery Branding: Tim Lane Photography: James Hole…
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A narrative history of England (1603-1642)
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Wherein the podcast, like the English Republic, disappears from history.
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Spring 1660 After a long exile, the rightful King returns, to restore the line of his ancestors.
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January 1660 A broad movement for a free parliament unites royalists, Presbyterians, the apprentices of London, and the only coherent army left in England.
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1 Episode 2.108: The Second Restoration of the Rump 31:20
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December 1659 Assailed on multiple fronts, the Committee of Safety simply dissolves. Without any other immediate options, England (for the third time) turns to the Rump.
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1 Episode 2.107: As Hot as They Can Suffer It 33:19
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1659 As the Committee of Safety struggles to establish itself as England's new government, London falls under the sway of different ruler - coffee.
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1 Episode: 2.106 - Dangerous to the Commonwealth 31:36
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1659 Army officers and the Rump squabble over the remains of the increasingly irrelevant Commonwealth state
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Summer 1659 The new regime at Westminster is briefly united by the most dangerous royalist insurgency parliament has yet faced.
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1659 Having run out of ideas, England once again turns to the men of the Rump parliament, who Oliver Cromwell had banished from Westminster six years earlier.
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Fall 1658 With the death of Oliver Cromwell, the Protectorate seeks stability under a new, untested Lord Protector.
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1658 Just when Cromwell completes his dream of securing Dunkirk, England is drawn into a new war in Scandinavia.
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January 1658 Oliver Cromwell (who is the Lord Protector, definitely not the King) seeks to control the House of Commons through the new "Other House" (which is definitely not the House of Lords).
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1657 Outside of London and Westminster, the people of England adapt to a new normal.
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1657 Thirty years after the Duke of Buckingham's French alliance failed in spectacular fashion, Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate once again outdo their Stuart predecessors.
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1657 Rival Cromwellian factions in parliament (who had disagreed on just about everything so far) once again split on a final question - whether to make the Lord Protector a King.
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1657 The Second Protectorate Parliament gathers, but rather than heeding Cromwell's call to confirm the existing constitution, the men at Westminster re-open fundamental questions of religion and money.
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1 Episode 2.96: A Wicked Spirit Risen Amongst Friends 31:14
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1656 A new radical religious group (the Quakers) suffers an internal power struggle, which threatens to de-stabilize the new parliament gathering at Westminster.
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1 Episode 2.95: The Colour of Your Detestable Practices 37:55
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1656 It's election season for the Second Protectorate Parliament, and English voters use the opportunity to contemplate the meaning of republicanism, and how to reconcile liberty in Britain with slavery in the New World.
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1656 England once again makes the capture of a Spanish treasure fleet the centre-piece of their war strategy. Only this time, it works!
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1656 While Oliver Cromwell and his friends re-make the English state, a collection of eccentric academics and amateur enthusiasts re-make the field of natural philosophy.
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1656 The Lord Protector, an Amsterdam Rabbi, and a merchant in the underground Jewish community of London seek to reverse a 350 year old ban on Jews in England.
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1655 Oliver Cromwell sends his son Henry to Ireland, for an apprenticeship in ruling a nation.
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1655 Stymied by traditional institutions like parliament, the Protectorate turns to the army to extend its rule into the provinces.
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1655 The New Model Army finds waging war on the other side of the world, and with little local intelligence, is harder than it looks.
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1654-5 The Protectorate state draws up plans for the most ambitious amphibious campaign in English history, and the first step in conquering a global empire.
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Spring 1655 An underground network of royalists seek to take advantage of instability within the Protectorate regime, but find that they are hampered by internal divisions of their own.
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Fall 1654 Lord Protector Cromwell opens his first parliament, and soon discovers what James or Charles could have told him - that managing the men at Westminster is no easy task.
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Now Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell is forced to finally make some concrete decisions about England's spiritual life. Perhaps unsurprisingly, his choices are as much political as religious.
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1654 Having seized control of the state, Cromwell immediately ends the war with the Dutch, and adopts a much more conventional foreign policy.
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December 1653 John Lambert, after orchestrating the demise of the latest attempt at a political settlement (the Nominated Assembly), produces his own solution - a written constitution.
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1653 With the Rump hastily dissolved, England turns to an ad hoc assembly to craft a new political order.
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1654 As social unrest in France takes a revolutionary turn, England sends out feelers to potential republican comrades.
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1652-3 With England distracted by the Dutch War, and turmoil at Westminster, a group of soldiers and administrators are left to determine Scotland's future on their own.
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Spring 1653 A long stand-off culminates in the forced dissolution of the Long Parliament, twelve and a half years after its initial elections.
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1652-3 Oliver Cromwell struggles to hold the disparate elements of the Commonwealth coalition together, but the mounting pressure seems to make a break all but inevitable.
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1652 Having pacified all organized resistance in Ireland, the Puritan Commonwealth regime contemplates how to rule a pre-dominantly Catholic nation.
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1652 The republics of England and the Netherlands test each other in battle, and in doing so act out a debate in naval tactics that had been brewing for a century.
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1651-2 As England prepares for a Dutch war, factions within the Commonwealth find that they have enemies at home.
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1652 Desperate to match the modernizing credit economy of the Dutch, the Commonwealth turns to a been enthusiast, an impoverished inventor, and England's spinsters.
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1651-1652 After decades of close co-operation, the Anglo-Dutch relationship falls apart due to heated economic competition.
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1651 Having pacified Scotland and Ireland, the Commonwealth regime looks to secure one last component of the old Stuart realms - the New World colonies.
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1651 Amid the soul searching after their defeat at Worcester, the royalists re-assess the philosophical underpinnings of their cause.
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1650-1 As Henry Ireton seeks to impose Commonwealth rule on Ireland, he finds his work obstructed by a persistent guerilla campaign.
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1651 When the Scots and Charles find themselves unable to defend Scotland, they turn the tables on Oliver Cromwell, and invade England.
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1649-50 In an effort to project the Commonwealth's military and economic power beyond the British Isles, the New Merchant faction re-organizes the navy.
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Summer 1650 Oliver Cromwell marches north to Scotland - and into a well laid trap.
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