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Words To That Effect

HeadStuff Podcasts & Conor Reid

A research-based, storytelling podcast which wanders through the fields of fiction, popular culture, science, and history, drawing on the knowledge of a diverse cast of experts. Topics are w...

Words To That Effect Podcast Guide

Listen to Words To That Effect, a Arts podcast by HeadStuff Podcasts & Conor Reid. Stream 73 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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WTTE Season 6 Update

Unfortunately there aren't going to be any new episodes for a little while but have a listen to this short update letting you know what's go...

4:33Jul 1, 2022

60: Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons plays a huge part in fiction and popular culture more generally, but it is often overlooked or misunderstood. In this epi...

30:12May 19, 2022

59: Robin Hood

From medieval ballads to the poetry of John Keats, stage productions to children’s songs, novels to comic books, silent movies to glorious t...

32:53Apr 30, 2022

58: The Origins of the Gothic

What does the word "Gothic" mean to you? Gothic cathedrals and castles? Gothic fiction? Teenage goths dressed in black? Horror and the super...

27:33Mar 31, 2022

57: The Sensation Novel

Sensation fiction was a hugely popular genre in the 1860s. The novels were sensationally popular, but they also caused a sensation, with the...

34:05Feb 22, 2022

56: Arthurian Romance

Knights in shining armour, damsels in distress, castles, chivalry and courtly love, heroic quests, dragons. King Arthur, Camelot, Merlin, th...

29:18Feb 8, 2022

55: A History of Dragons

Dragons have been around for a very long time. They are one of the very few mythological creatures that have become absolutely central to po...

31:40Jan 25, 2022

Season 6 Preview

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3:13Jan 18, 2022

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 t...

31:08Jul 21, 2021

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...

66:28Jun 11, 2021

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...

25:10Apr 30, 2021

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...

30:42Mar 31, 2021

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...

25:06Mar 9, 2021

49: Robots

Robots as high-tech labour-saving devices, and as usurpers of human jobs. Robots as distinctly Other and as dangerously indistinguishable fr...

35:59Jan 28, 2021

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 ca...

4:35Jan 20, 2021

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...

28:37Dec 22, 2020

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