100 Episodes

  1. Episode 449: The Crumbling Castle - Disney's Downward Spiral

    Published: 6/27/2025
  2. Episode 448: Unbelievably Popular - why do bad books become best sellers?

    Published: 6/6/2025
  3. Episode 447: Wit & Readability - 250 years of Jane Austen

    Published: 5/23/2025
  4. Episode 446: Getting Your House in Order - Writing as a Career or a Serious Side Gig

    Published: 5/16/2025
  5. Episode 445: No More Mr Nice Guy - the Geek Misogynist in Speculative Fiction Part 2

    Published: 5/9/2025
  6. Episode 444: No More Mr Nice Guy - the Geek Misogynist in Speculative Fiction part 1

    Published: 5/2/2025
  7. Episode 443: 2024, the Real Life Experience - A Year in Review

    Published: 12/27/2024
  8. Episode 442: The Witches of Midwinter - Following the Wild Dance and Furious Hosts of Christmas

    Published: 12/20/2024
  9. Episode 441: Remaking the 80s - Rewriting Classic Films for a Modern Audience

    Published: 12/15/2024
  10. Episode 440: The Devil's Music - the Occult, Rock'n'Roll and Storytelling

    Published: 12/6/2024
  11. Episode 439: It Grows in Darkness - Mushrooms in Horror and SFF

    Published: 11/29/2024
  12. Episode 438: Jeeves Blackadder and Puss - Canny Domestics and Sneaky smart servants

    Published: 11/22/2024
  13. Episode 437: Popular, you're gonna be popular - or are you? - Why Stage Production Musicals Often Fail on the Big Screen

    Published: 11/15/2024
  14. DD 436: The Tiffany Problem - When Reality is too real for Speculative Fiction

    Published: 11/2/2024
  15. Episode 435: Snatchers surfers and Hitchers - Bodysnatching in Speculative Fiction

    Published: 10/25/2024
  16. Episode 434 -The Allure of the Curse - Speculative Fictions Oldest Trope

    Published: 10/18/2024
  17. Episode 433: The Woods, the Mountains and Emptiness - an Examination of Survival Horror

    Published: 10/11/2024
  18. Episode 432: Haunt Sweet Home - How to Write a Haunted a House

    Published: 10/4/2024
  19. Episode 431: This is Fine - Writing Trauma in Scifi and Fantasy part two

    Published: 9/27/2024
  20. Episode 430: This is Fine - Writing Trauma in Sci-fi & Fantasy

    Published: 9/20/2024

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Authors J.A. Ironside and M.E. Vaughan talk about books, films and all aspects of speculative fiction, from the nuts and bolts of writing it, to its (occasionally) obscure origins.