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In this week’s special Fainting Couch episode, Kim and Alice are smooching their undergardeners and celebrating queer representation in TV and cinema. We’re looking at the history, the controversy and depiction of LGBTQ+ people on screen, and demanding more queer joy please!

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle
Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle
Producer: Helen Hamilton

Sources

• Article: Jack King; '10 great films about queer history'; BFI.org.uk; February 2021
• Article: Isabelle Grimshaw; 'A Short History of LGBTQ+ Cinema'; freesat.co.uk; June 2023
• Documentary: 'Queerama' (2017); Dir. Daisy Asquith

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It’s Pride season, and Kim and Alice are celebrating by discussing the queeriest 2020 Mexican drama, ‘Dance of the 41’. There’s cigar innuendo, bathtub math and honeymoon-related fainting, as well as the real history of the LGBTQ+ community in 1900s Mexico.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle
Editor: Keith Nagle
Producer: Helen Hamilton

Sources

• Article: Brendan O'Boyle; '"Los 41": The Queer Dance Party That Changed Mexico'; Americas Quarterly, June 2020
• Article: Thaddeus Morgan; '41 Has a Secret Meaning in Mexico Thanks to a Queer Underground Ball'; History.com; June 2018
• Article: Kittredge Cherry; 'Dance of the 41 Queers: Police Raid Mexican Drag Ball in 1901'; qspirit.net; Jan 2024
• Article: Heib, L. (2023). El Baile de Los 41: Sexuality in 1900’s Mexico. The Toro Historical Review, 14(2), 55-62. 
• Article: Roger Moore; 'Netflixable? Gay Mexican history plays out in 'Dance of the 41''; rogersmovienation.com; 2021
• Article: Manuel Betancourt; ''Dance of the 41' Review: Netflix Drama Spotlights a 19th-Century Queer Scandal'; Variety.com; 2021
• Book: R. Irwin (Editor), E. McCaughan (Editor), M. Nasser (Editor)(2003) 'The Famous 41: sexuality and social control in Mexico, c.1901' ; Palgrave/MacMillan
• Biography: 'Amada Díaz Quiñones'; findagrave.com
• Biography: 'Ignacio de la Torre y Mier'; findagrave.com

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This week we’re having our hearts broken by a bad case of British butler-itis, as Kim and Alice sob through The Remains of the Day. We’re learning about the politics of the aristocracy, strict servant etiquette and why you shouldn’t learn the facts of life from Anthony Hopkins.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle
Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle
Producer: Helen Hamilton

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Move over Elizabeth and Victoria, there’s a new Queen in town. This week Kim and Alice tackle ‘The Favourite’, the darkly comic / just plain dark Queen Anne biopic. Why aren’t more period dramas set in the Stuart period? Who won the duck race? And where can we hire a naked Tory for our next party?

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle
Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle
Producer: Helen Hamilton

Sources

• Podcast: Vulgar History; 'Anne, Queen of Great Britain'
• Article: Wilder Davies; 'The True Story Behind the Favourite'; Time Magazine, Dec 2018
• Article: James Anderson Wynn; 'Your Guide to Queen Anne, Last of the Stuart Monarchs'; History Extra, July 2020
• Article: Dr Hannah Grieg; 'Queen Anne's Feuding Favourites'; History Extra, Feb 2019
• Article: Alice Newbold; 'Sandy Powell On Taking a Rock and Roll Approach to Period Dress in The Favourite'; Vogue, Jan 2019

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You better get to shirtless sword practice because these elephants only respect hot people! This week Kim and Alice are covering Indian epic, Jodhaa Akbar.  It’s a historical romance with all the jewellery and political intrigue you can handle, along with Kim’s favourite kind of montage… a montage of LOVE.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle
Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle
Producer: Helen Hamilton

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Ain’t no party like a cloud moon party; this week Kim and Alice are discussing the gorgeous Japanese animation, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. We reveal our preferred method of baby-making (it’s Bamboo-based), discuss some fierce Heian period fashion and congratulate Mt Fuji on sticking to her New Year’s resolutions.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle
Editor: Keith Nagle / Helen Hamilton
Producer: Helen Hamilton

Sources

• 'Sei Shonagon and the Heian Court'; Stuff You Missed in History Class 
• 'Princess Kaguya'; Zusetsu.com
• 'Slow on the draw: Takahata Isao's long road to the Tale of the Princess Kaguya'; Sight&Sound April 2015
• 'Isao Takahata: Inspiring Visual Styles of Japanese Film & Anime Aesthetics'; Dahlan Bin Abdul Ghani, Nur Athirah Bt. Ahmad Azizi, Luqman Zulhilmi Bin Abdul 'Alim'; International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, Volume 8, Issue 11S2'

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We’re jumping on our 1850s waterbed with excitement, as this week Kim and Alice are joined by Laurel from Hightailing Through History to discuss the BBC miniseries, North & South. The industrial North is in her strike era and the men are blaming women for their feelings again, but exactly how many red flags will we ignore if someone’s hot?

Check out Hightailing Through History on Spotify,  Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle
Editor: Keith Nagle
Producer: Helen Hamilton

Sources:
Lancashire Textile Strikes; Encyclopedia.com
"You Have Made Him What He Is": Irish Labourers and the Preston Strike in Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South" by Susanne S. Cammack; New Hibernia Review Vol 20, No.4

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This week Kim and Alice cover their first African-set period drama - the historical action-adventure, ‘The Woman King’. We discuss the real Agojie tribe, the sheer joy of watching some badass women kick some butts and pledge our undying allegiance to Izogie.

Sound Recordist: Keith Nagle
Editor: Keith Nagle
Producer: Helen Hamilton

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There are rigid thrombi all round this week, as Kim and Alice discuss the massively unsubtle 2011 movie, Hysteria.  We’re talking about the true history of the invention of the vibrator (spoiler: this isn’t it), the ongoing misdiagnosis of women’s health issues and keeping musk oil far away from our intimate areas.

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Editor: Keith Nagle / Helen Hamilton
Producer: Helen Hamilton

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It’s chicken-blood time girls! While Kim’s off witching it up in another country, Alice is joined by Kirstyn and Ben from There’s Not Always a Twist. In this episode, they’re turning their attention to The Crucible; the witch-trial thriller based on Arthur Miller’s play. We’re talking about hysteria, how the play links to McCarthyism and comparing the film with the Inside No.9 episode, ‘The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge’. Plus Alice’s horrifying theatre camp experience, and Daniel Day-Lewis’ construction skills.

Check out There’s Not Always a Twist on Spotify.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle
Editor: Keith Nagle
Producer: Helen Hamilton

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