Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Addressing our biases
Entrenched racism is all around us. This is not a new phenomenon nor the first time racism has been headline news – and yet we have a seemingly incre…
6 years, 4 months ago
Horror and isolation with Melinda Salisbury
You know the drill, you are alone in the middle of a foggy field and there’s no one within miles… except the person following you. There’s no one com…
6 years, 5 months ago
Back to the 80s: Willow
Well, it’s that time again: 80s family film funtime! Today we are looking at 1988’s Willow, starring Warwick Davis and Val Kilmer, directed by Ron Ho…
6 years, 5 months ago
Gendering monsters
Monster. Freak. Beast. These words are often thrown around, but what do we really mean when we use them? What is a monster? Why are they so central t…
6 years, 6 months ago
Narration and ambiguity with Camilla Bruce
When we pick up a book, we know we’re going to be told a story. We trust the author or, in the case of first-person POV the narrator, to tell us the …
6 years, 6 months ago
Finding the magic in magical realism – with Natasha Pulley
Speculative fiction has always been a genre that challenges traditional views and established ways of seeing. We regularly discuss how the worlds tha…
6 years, 7 months ago
Power through a gendered lens with Menna Van Praag
It has long been obvious that our world’s power structures are set up to benefit men, so how does women’s power play out in our narratives? What happ…
6 years, 7 months ago
Cosmic horror with Premee Mohamed
Cosmic horror is an unhelpful term by itself. HP Lovecraft himself is quoted as saying that: The fundamental premise [of cosmic horror is] that commo…
6 years, 7 months ago
Back to the 80s: Ladyhawke
The three of us are children of the 80s and like many of our generation, we love to revel in nostalgia. For us, this has meant revisiting some of our…
6 years, 8 months ago
Onscreen representation of women with Kate Madison
Here on BtGS, we regularly discuss how female characters in SFF are depicted on-screen. From the infamous bikini armour to simply being absent from m…
6 years, 8 months ago