Things We Read Instead

Things We Read Instead

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Things We Read Instead episodes

  • What Vic Read Instead of Crucible of Hell - Part 1

    Thanks for listening. Here’s a list of the books, movies, shows and museums mentioned in the podcast.


    Content Warning - this episode deals with a non-fiction book dealing with the second world war. From the outset there will be graphic descriptions of injury, warfare and discussions of suicide. Tread carefully!


    Crucible of Hell by Saul David

    Everywhere by Billy Bragg

    1916 by Sabaton

    With The Old Breed by E B Sledge

    The Pacific (2010)

    Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

    If We Were Villains by M L Rio

    Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris

    The Sin Eater by Megan Campisi


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    58 min
  • What Chris Read Instead of The Custom of the Country

    Thanks for listening. Here’s a list of the books, movies, shows and museums mentioned in the podcast.

    The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

    The Proud Tower by Barbara W Tuchman

    Osprey Publishing Campaign Bosworth 1485 Christopher Gravett

    Sekigahara 1600 by Anthory J Bryant

    The Rest is History Podcast with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook

    Crawling Horror edited by Daisy Butcher and Janette Leaf

    That Time I Got Drunk and Saved Demon by Kimberley Lemming

    Daisy Miller by Henry James

    City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

    Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

    Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller

    Emma by Jane Austen

    The Age of Innocence (1993)

    The Gilded Age (2022)

    House of Cards (1990)

    Election (1999)

    Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

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    1 hr 8 min
  • What Vic Read Instead of The Cruel Sea

    Thanks for listening. Here’s a list of the books, movies, shows and museums mentioned in the podcast.


    The Cruel Sea Nicholas Montsarrat 

    The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown 

    Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy 

    Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati 

    Argylle (2024) 

    The Good Shepherd CS Forester 

    The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War Jonathan Dimbleby

    Convoy Escort Commander Vice Admiral Sir Peter Gretton 

    The Sinking of the Bismarck William L Shirer

    The Cruel Sea 1953 

    Greyhound 2020 

    Das Boot 1981 

    In Which We Serve 1942 

    Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003

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    1 hr 6 min
  • What Chris Read Instead of Dracula

    Thanks for listening. Here’s a list of the books, movies, shows and museums mentioned in the podcast.

    Dracula by Bram Stoker

    Mosquito by Rowland White

    de Havilland Museum

    'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

    Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice

    Fevre Dream by George R R Martin

    The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

    Carmilla by Sheridan De Fanu

    World War Z by Max Brooks

    Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

    The Vampire Genevieve by Kim Newman

    Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

    The Lost Boys (1987)

    Twilight (2008)

    30 Days of Night (2007)

    Near Dark (1987)

    Van Helsing (2004)

    Underworld (2003)

    Twins of Evil (1971)

    Castlevania (2017)


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    1 hr 17 min

About Things We Read Instead

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A monthly podcast where two distractable nerds spend their time chatting bubbles about the enjoyment of something unintended but fabulous, while also trying to get their to be read piles under…