by Lucy Hounsom | August 24, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn the preface to Les Fleurs du mal, Baudelaire indicated that boredom is the truest suffering, andthis idea later became central to the fin de siècle movement, an era of decadence in which artificemasqueraded as, or...
by Lucy Hounsom | July 27, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFolklore and fairy tales can sometimes be inextricably bound up with religion. In the Grimms’ own collection of fairy tales, the Devil turns up and so do angels. ‘The Peasant in Heaven’ as well as...
by Lucy Hounsom | July 13, 2023 | Discussion, Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFor this week’s episode, Lucy and Charlotte thought they’d take the opportunity to talk about something they have a passion for: folklore. In particular, the ballad of the Singing Bone, which is Aarne...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 18, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSpeculative fiction is no stranger to exploring issues of colonialism, particularly in science fiction, from first contact stories to wars over territories. While many such stories are extremely black and white, the...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 4, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHorror works best when it’s relatable. The best protagonists in a horror story are those that are just like us: they’re sensible, trying to scrape by, possibly raise families, and make the most of life. We empathise...
by Lucy Hounsom | April 20, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFairies and fairy stories have fascinated us for centuries. They have been present in British art and literature certainly from the 1600s, with the earliest mention being dated as the 13th century. But what if, in...
