by Lucy Hounsom | June 18, 2020 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSEntrenched racism is all around us. This is not a new phenomenon nor the first time racism has been headline news – and yet we have a seemingly incredible ability to forget the atrocities committed daily as long as...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 21, 2020 | Discussion, Episodes, Uncategorised
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWell, it’s that time again: 80s family film funtime! Today we are looking at 1988’s Willow, starring Warwick Davis and Val Kilmer, directed by Ron Howard with a story by George Lucas. But first,...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 7, 2020 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMonster. Freak. Beast. These words are often thrown around, but what do we really mean when we use them? What is a monster? Why are they so central to our narratives? Like many of the issues we discuss on this...
by Lucy Hounsom | February 27, 2020 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe three of us are children of the 80s and like many of our generation, we love to revel in nostalgia. For us, this has meant revisiting some of our favourite fantasy films of that decade: Labyrinth, The Dark...
by Lucy Hounsom | September 26, 2019 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPreviously on Breaking the Glass Slipper we have covered Disney princesses. This time we thought we would turn our attention to the men. But we’re a podcast about women! So why spend an entire episode focusing on...
by Megan Leigh | August 29, 2019 | Discussion, Episodes, Live
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMuch of W. B. Yeats’ poetry is inspired by the rich mythological fabric of Ireland. This is the land of the Sidhe, the banshee, the merrow. But the island itself has a character, an identity, in the geographical,...
