Words To That Effect
Words To That Effect is a narrative storytelling show that explores the intriguing places where fiction, history, science, and popular culture intersect and inspire. From the Victorian past to utopian futures, dinosaurs to detectives, zombies to mummies.- Conor Reid
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Words To That Effect BONUS | More Gothic Forests
Hey HeadStuff+ members! If you've listened to the Gothic Forests episode and want to find out the one, somewhat obscure, book that you have to read if you love this area, then have a listen.... Thanks for all your support!
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52: Gothic Forests
The forest is a place we have very mixed feelings about. Forests can be calm and peaceful, full of ancient and natural beauty.
Until they’re not.
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51: Desert Fictions
How do we imagine and portray the desert? And what does it say about us and our relationship to each other and, crucially, to the planet we live on?
In this...
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50: Arsene Lupin
In 1905 in Paris, the publisher Pierre Laffite had an idea. His new journal Je Sais Tout had just launched and he was looking for an author who could do fo...
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49: Robots
Robots as high-tech labour-saving devices, and as usurpers of human jobs. Robots as distinctly Other and as dangerously indistinguishable from humans. Robots as a me...
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Words To That Effect BONUS | M.R. James: 'Rats'
A traditional Victorian Christmas ghost tale. But you can listen any time of year, as long as it's late at night and you're in front of an open fire with a stiff ...
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