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Words To That Effect

Words To That Effect

71 Episodes • By Conor Reid • headstuffpodcasts.com/show/words...
Words To That Effect: Stories of the Fiction that Shapes Popular Culture. WTTE is a narrative storytelling show, hosted and produced by Conor Reid, that explores the intriguing places where fiction, history, science, and popular culture intersect and inspire. From the Victorian past to utopian futur ...more
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Words To That Effect
Words To That Effect
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WTTE Season 6 Update
Unfortunately there aren't going to be any new episo... more
Jul 1 2022 2m
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60: Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons plays a huge part in fiction ... more
May 19 2022 27m
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59: Robin Hood
From medieval ballads to the poetry of John Keats, s... more
Apr 30 2022 31m
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58: The Origins of the Gothic
What does the word "Gothic" mean to you? Gothic cath... more
Mar 31 2022 25m
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A Word To That Effect: Serendipity (Bonus Ep)
 A Word To That Effect is a new series of bonus mini... more
Mar 22 2022 6m
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A Word To That Effect: Cliffhanger (Bonus Ep)
A Word To That Effect is a new series of bonus mini-... more
Mar 8 2022 7m
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57: The Sensation Novel
Sensation fiction was a hugely popular genre in the ... more
Feb 22 2022 32m
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56: Arthurian Romance
Knights in shining armour, damsels in distress, cast... more
Feb 8 2022 27m
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55: A History of Dragons
Dragons have been around for a very long time.  T... more
Jan 25 2022 29m
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Season 6 Preview
Words To That Effect is back! Find out what's coming... more
Jan 18 2022 1m
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54: Underwater Worlds
There is a complex and fascinating relationship betw... more
Jul 21 2021 29m
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53: Fiction & Food
How do we use fiction in food? What does a character... more
Jun 11 2021 1h 4m
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52: Gothic Forests
The forest is a place we have very mixed feelings ab... more
Apr 30 2021 23m
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51: Desert Fictions
How do we imagine and portray the desert? And what d... more
Mar 31 2021 28m
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50: Arsene Lupin
 In 1905 in Paris, the publisher Pierre Laffite had ... more
Mar 9 2021 23m
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49: Robots
Robots as high-tech labour-saving devices, and as us... more
Jan 28 2021 34m
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Announcement: WTTE & HeadStuff+
A quick update episode on the new HeadStuff membersh... more
Jan 20 2021 3m
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48: Fictions of Antarctica
 The continent of Antarctica was only discovered two... more
Dec 22 2020 26m
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47: Alternate History
In one sense alternate history is a very specific ki... more
Dec 8 2020 26m
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46: Weird Westerns
In a way it’s maybe strange that the western is such... more
Nov 24 2020 23m
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45: Mashups, Remixes, and Frankenfiction
Remix, mashup, sample, adaptation, parody, homage, k... more
Nov 10 2020 24m
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Season 5 Preview
WTTE is back! Season 5 launches on Tuesday 10th Nove... more
Nov 4 2020 1m
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44: Words Dunnit (WTTE + Shedunnit Live)
Last year Caroline Crampton (of Shedunnit) and I tea... more
Apr 3 2020 1h 1m
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43: Lost Books
There are countless great works of literature we hav... more
Mar 11 2020 21m
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42: The Missing Link
Sasquatch. Bigfoot. The Abominable Snowman. Yeti. Th... more
Feb 26 2020 22m
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