Collecting Talk with Author Jonathan Melville | Cereal At Midnight Podcast


Heath is joined by author Jonathan Melville (Seeking Perfection: The Unofficial Guide to Tremors, A Kind of Magic: Making the Original Highlander) for an expansive conversation that covers everything from Jim Henson and Stephen J. Cannell to the joys (and challenges) of collecting. 


Seeking Perfection: The Unofficial Guide to Tremors
A Kind of Magic: Making the Original Highlander 
Local Hero: Making A Scottish Classic 

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Interview Music: Crowander - Whisky 

Outro Music: Break Surf - Muzaproduction 

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