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Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror

Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror

By: Megan Leigh Charlotte Bond and Lucy Hounsom
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 Podcast discussing women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Hosted by Megan Leigh, Charlotte Bond, and Lucy Hounsom. New episodes every other Thursday.All rights reserved Art Social Sciences
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  • Zombies are us – with Leigh Radford

    Zombies are us – with Leigh Radford
    Jul 31 2025

    Zombies first shambled onto our cinema screens in the 1932 film White Zombie staring Bela Lugosi. Early incarnations involved voodoo reanimation and lacked the whole brain-eating aspect. (There’s a really interesting article by Carnegie Mellon University that charts the early history of the zombie). But let us jump to what modern audiences consider a zombie. For that, […]

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    35 mins
  • Big deck energy – with Frances White

    Big deck energy – with Frances White
    Jun 28 2025

    Part of a murder mystery’s charm is the narrative movement from chaos to order. The natural balance of justice is overturned and it’s up to ordinary people – rather than the law – to fix it. The uncovering of clues, red herrings, the many suspicious characters – all of these are essential to a good […]

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    29 mins
  • Unspinning Sleeping Beauty – with Georgia Leighton

    Unspinning Sleeping Beauty – with Georgia Leighton
    May 30 2025

    Fairy tale retellings are always popular. Fairy tales are some of the first stories we learn as children. As well as being entertaining, they are instructive. Don’t stray from the path. Don’t trust wolves, or men. Fill your pockets with stones, not breadcrumbs. If you’re going to steal some herbs for your pregnant wife, be […]

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    30 mins
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