Cos-Story: Stories of Cosplay and Pop Culture. 

Explore the history of pop culture in 1000 moments with short stories the perfect length for your coffee break. 

Halloween 1992, and the people of the UK sit down to watch a new programme on ghosts in the Greater London area. Presented as a live documentary, many were taken in by the realism and were terrified by what they saw, with more complaints being to the BBC in hour than ever before. It even caused symptoms of PTSD in children and gained an entry into the British Medical Journal. 

This is the story of Ghostwatch, a programme that scared a nation. 

Scripted, read and produced by Holly Swinyard

Information for this episode came from the BBC, SyFy, The Independent and The British Medical Journal

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Warnings: This episode contains discussion of a plane crash, death and distressing situations. 

The is the story of Pan Am Flight 121 and the impact it made on pop culture for the next 70 years.  

Pam Am Flight 121 crashed on the 18th of June 1947, one of the surviving officers risked life and limb to save as many as he could from the wreck. His name was Third Officer Gene Roddenberry. This tragedy would not only change his life but inspire him to create Star Trek and change pop culture history. 

Are you interested in the history of pop culture? Maybe you like cosplay and want to know where you're hobby comes from? Or you love a little educational short story, well Cos-Story has you covered! Tea break sized story bites all about pop culture, nerdom and cosplay, every Saturday. 

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Episode 3: San Diego Comic Con and how it came to be one of the most important landmarks on in the pop culture landscape. 

San Diego Comic Con is one of the biggest conventions in the world and is known for bringing the best and brightest of nerdom out to play, but it wasn't always this way. Why not join us on a journey on finding out how it came to be. 

Scripted, read and produced by Holly Swinyard

Information for this episode came from NPC, Rolling Stone Magazine and Publishers Weekly

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The story of Myrtle Douglas, aka Morojo, the mother of cosplay. 

Morojo's place in pop culture history was sadly lost for a long time and credit for her costumes given to others. But, through the work of may fans and pop culture historians, she has been rediscovered and her additions to the wonderful world of fandom acknowledged. 

Come with us and find out all about this amazing woman and what she achieved. 

Information for this episode came from Rob Hansen’s web archive THEN, The Fancyclopedia and Racked, Meet the Woman Who Invented Cosplay

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Cosplay has been around longer than you think, right back to the turn of the 20th century in fact. Come with us to a moment in Cos-Story and take a look into where this hobby started and listen to the story of how a curious martian helped start the cultural phenomenon. 

Written, read and produced by Holly Swinyard 

Information for this episode came from Kotaku, Gizmodo and Planet Cosplay by Paul Mountfort, Anne Pierson-Smith and Adam Geczy.

You can support this podcast on ko-fi.com/thecosplayjournal

Find more information, articles and cosplay on thecosplayjournal.com

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