Juvenalia

Music writer and co-host of The Nialler9 Podcast Andrea Cleary joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the best little pig in the world, Babe. We talked about vegetarianism, feeling all the feelings, teaching moral lessons with animals, is Babe a sports film?, the many ways in which James Cromwell is wonderful, Alistair MacLeod short stories, Ulysses, Christine Cavanaugh, and just generally about how Babe is the sweetest little guy in cinema history. 

Andrea Cleary is @AndreaCleary_ on Twitter. Her music writing can be found mostly on HeadStuff and GoldenPlec and the Nialler9 podcast is available in all the podcast places.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Author and awards-magnet Louise O'Neill joined Alan and Sarah to talk about Enid Blyton's classic series about a fantastical tree that's not nearby, The Magic Faraway Tree. We talked about the Famous Five vs Secret Seven, the comforting repetition of Enid Blyton, updating books for modern audiences, and, seeing as we had two of Ireland's best YA authors in the studio, a lot of talk about writing YA. Then we had a patented Juvenalia digression into Adele's Titanic-themed party, the Met Gala and cultural appropriation. The usual. 

Louise O'Neill is @oneilllo on Twitter. Her novels Only Ever Yours, Asking For It, Almost Love, and The Surface Breaks are all available now and are all excellent. The stage adaptation of Asking For It is in The Everyman in Cork until June 23rd and in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin from November 9th-24th.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Spoken word artist Sahar Ali joins Alan and Ellen to talk about The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air. We focused on three episodes in particular: the "why don't he want me, man" episode, the one where Carlton overdoses on speed, and the one where Carlton and Will get arrested in a fancy car. We talked about representation on kids TV, Fresh Prince's willingness to leave things on a sad note, learning morals from Will Smith, and the legacy of rich, black families on TV. 

Sahar is @saharmali on Twitter.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Scott Benson, co-creator and animator of the award-winning Night In The Woods and co-founder of Late Night Work Club, joined Alan and Ellen to talk about the Indiana Jones series and many related topics including Dinosaurs, wolf re-introduction, whether Scott would win a fight with a coyote, good band names, Indiana Jones: Anti-communist?, SnakeCon, and all that good Juvenalia stuff.  

Night In The Woods is one of Alan's favourite games ever so please note how relatively chill he managed to stay during this episode. Night In The Woods is available on Steam, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch. 

Scott is @bombsfall on Twitter.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Welcome to our big 50th episode party! We took over the Vintage Room in The Workman's Club and filled it with sound people. We did a little quiz and gave away some extremely desirable prizes. Then we talked to Oscar-winning graphic designer Annie Atkins whose work you've seen in The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle Of Dogs, Bridge Of Spies, The Tudors, and loads more. Annie talked to us about the classic and only mildly disturbing family comedy BIG. It was a really interesting conversation and also it's one of the very special times where Alan, Ellen, and Sarah are all in the same room so that was fun. 

Thank you so much to Alan and Brian at HeadStuff for making this episode happen and to everybody at The Workman's who gave us the space and set us up and made sure we didn't set fire to anything. We donated all of our ticket sales for the night to Together For Yes and we're delighted to say that we raised €300 so thank you to everybody that bought a ticket. 

Note: We are shamble people and away from the safe confines of the HeadStuff studio we have a tendency to make microphones malfunction. It happens a couple of times during this but it shouldn't affect your listening experience too much unless you have "platinum ears". 

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Linda Kavanagh of Together For Yes joins Alan and guest co-host Karyn Moynihan of Double Love to talk about everybody's favourite lil 80s alien, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial. We talk about dissecting frogs, very good child actors, is E.T. a vegetarian, Mac and Me, Miss Vanjie, Paul Rudd, with a little diversion into the Fast and Furious films. We had fun, you'll have fun. 

Follow us all on Twitter: Linda Kavanagh (@bubblenoma) Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) Karyn Moynihan (@redlemonader)

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Kate McEvoy, video producer, twitter citizen, and former voice of Phantom FM, joins Alan and Sarah to talk about Roald Dahl's Matilda, memory, Danny DeVito's film adaptation, Roald Dahl's real life, and digressions into lots of other Roald Dahl books.  

Note: We had a couple of recording snafus in the second half of the episode which we had to edit out so there are a couple of abrupt changes of topic but hopefully it's not too noticeable. 

You can follow Kate on Twitter @ImKateMc and you should.

We're doing a live show for our fiftieth episode on April 25th in the Vintage Room in the Workman's. Our guest is going to be the amazing graphic designer Annie Atkins. You should come. 

You can follow Juvenalia on twitter @Juvenalia_Pod or like Juvenalia on Facebook at JuvenaliaPodcast and also we're @juvenaliapod on Instagram. We're everywhere now. If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing. 

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Esther O'Moore Donohoe, host of The 80% and warrior of the AA Roadwatch, joins Alan and Sarah to talk about Sex And The City. We talk about annoying main characters, the standard jobs that women have in TV shows, Girls, and the ~journey~ that the Sex And The City characters went on over six good seasons, one good movie, and one other movie. 

You can follow Esther on twitter @estheromd . Esther's podcast The 80% is available in all the places where you get podcasts.

We're doing a live show for our fiftieth episode on April 25th in the Vintage Room in the Workman's. You should come. 

You can follow Juvenalia on twitter @Juvenalia_Pod or like Juvenalia on Facebook at JuvenaliaPodcast and also we're @juvenaliapod on Instagram. We're everywhere now. If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing. 

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Writer, podcaster, and the creator of everybody's favourite Tinyletter, Anne T. Donahue joins Alan and Ellen to talk about Star Wars and Star Wars-related things. Some of those things included: Anne's award-winning Star Wars essay, Hayden Christensen catfishers, fixing General Hux, Donald Glover, and a too-brief diversion into true crime. We had fun. We hope you like it. 

You can follow Anne on twitter @annetdonahue . Anne's book and podcast are both called Nobody Cares. The podcast is excellent, if you like Juvenalia you'll definitely, definitely like Nobody Cares. The book is out in September and will be excellent for sure.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell