54: Underwater Worlds
There is a complex and fascinating relationship between humans and the ocean, how people and cultures across the world know and understand the sea, wh...
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Words To That Effect: Stories of the Fiction that Shapes Popular Culture. WTTE 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, how does literature shape our understanding of popular culture? Find out more at wttepodcast.com (https://wttepodcast.com). Support the show at patreon.com/wtte.
53: Fiction & Food
How do we use fiction in food? What does a character's choice of food reveal about them? Do you simply have to go and make a dish when it's described ...
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. Th...
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...
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...
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....
Announcement: WTTE & HeadStuff+
A quick update episode on the new HeadStuff membership platform, HeadStuff+ Have a listen to find out more about what's on it and how you can join (al...
48: Fictions of Antarctica
The continent of Antarctica was only discovered two centuries ago, even if it had long been theorized. It's a place shrouded in mystery with no human...
47: Alternate History
In one sense alternate history is a very specific kind of story - sometimes seen as a subgenre of science fiction, more often as a genre onto itself. ...
46: Weird Westerns
In a way it’s maybe strange that the western is such a prominent genre. It's seemingly connected to a very specific time and place: the mid-to-late 19...