Happy 12th of January everyone! As a (sort of) Christmas treat, Kim and Alice are re-visiting Christmas at Downton Abbey. We cover snow proposals, murder trials, and a Ouija board channelling beautiful messages that will be roundly ignored. All this and exactly one Christmas tree!

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

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Kim and Alice's hot take on Guillermo del Toro's 2025 adaptation of Frankenstein

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We’re off to Hollywood Japan this week as Kim and Alice re-discover the 2005 hit movie, Memoirs of a Geisha. We reveal the real-life betrayal at the heart of the story, examine the insidious mix of fact with Western fantasy and clarify that you really can just leave the kimono factory if you want to.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

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It's bring your husband to work day, and while Kim's away Alice is joined by FtSS's own sound engineer Keith Nagle. We're talking found family (seals), thatched cottage interior design masters (junior edition), and why everyone in Ireland is sleeping on this delightful and charming film.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

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There are many questions and MANY SPOILERS this week as Kim and Alice puzzle their way through ‘90s drama, M Butterfly. We’re probing some intimate international relations and discovering there’s nowhere to run inside a van.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

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We’re getting Spookstorical this week as Kim and Alice assemble a murderous flashmob for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s the classic tale of the world’s least curious scientist, his sibling marriage and the frogs / friends reanimated along the way.

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You too can be an a**hole if you just dream big! Kim and Alice kick off Season 5 with The Greatest Showman, a musical about wives supporting vague dreams, fish-monkey rental and the upside-down triangle known as Zac Efron.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Keith Nagle / Helen Hamilton

Producer: Helen Hamilton

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https://leftlion.co.uk/features/2022/06/dr-john-jacob-woolf-victorian-freak-show/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freak_show

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Kim and Alice discuss the intense, spooky and downright wonderful Macbeth adaptation; Throne of Blood. Enjoy this Kurasawa classic with us and remember, as you’re warming up your sake in a baby bottle warmer, that we’re all just skeletons waiting for our dust mound.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

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It’s time for a trash man to make a trash movie - this week Kim and Alice are talking about the Tim Burton-directed biopic, Ed Wood. Discover why the cast of Step Up need to get into some sarcophagi, be amazed by the too good to be true accuracy and enjoy Kim’s palpable hatred of the man behind it all.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

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This week Ann from Vulgar History is skipping her morning jazz to help Kim and Alice make sense of the Agatha Christie adaptation, Towards Zero. Join us as we discuss this murderous Love Island, featuring lawyer besties, monograms galore and the gold standard in capricious will writing.

Hear more from Ann on the excellent Vulgar History Podcast, on Instagram and on Threads.

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Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

If you enjoy this podcast, come with us on a romp through the Regency era with our sister podcast, Austen After Dark. Listen to all episodes now.

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