Words To That Effect

By Conor Reid

Words To That Effect: Stories of the Fiction that Shapes Popular Culture. WTTE is a narrative storytelling show, hosted and produced by Conor Reid, that explores the intriguing places where fiction, h... more

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The podcast currently has 86 episodes available.

Words To That Effect episodes:

September 21, 2024 WTTE 2024 Update & Announcing: The Greatest Matter
So it's been a while! Here's a quick update of what's been going on over at WTTE HQ, including an announcement of my brand new audiodrama: The Greatest Matter. You can have a listen to the trailer and, if you like what you here, subscribe to the show wherever you're listening now. All the details at thegreatestmatter.com

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6min
July 01, 2022 WTTE Season 6 Update
Unfortunately there aren't going to be any new episodes for a little while but have a listen to this short update letting you know what's going on at WTTE and where things are heading next.

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5min
May 19, 2022 60: Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons plays a huge part in fiction and popular culture more generally, but it is often overlooked or misunderstood. In this episode I gather together an experienced Dungeon Master and some complete novices (including myself) to play D&D for the first time. Joining me to explore this new world is academic, and life-time D&D fan, Professor Curt Carbonell, who has recently published a book on the subject.

WTTE is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network. You can support the show and get bonus content and more by becoming a member of HeadStuff+. Go to HeadStuffPodcasts.com

For full transcripts, links, references, and more the home of the podcast is wttepodcast.com

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30min
April 30, 2022 59: Robin Hood
From medieval ballads to the poetry of John Keats, stage productions to children’s songs, novels to comic books, silent movies to glorious technicolour, Disney classics to Kevin Costner blockbusters to Mel Brooks parodies to gritty reimaginings and lots, lots more, Robin Hood is certainly one of the most recognisable characters in all of western popular culture.

Joining me to explore the legendary outlaw is Prof Valerie Johnson, from the University of Montevallo, Alabama.

WTTE is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network. You can support the show and get bonus content and more by becoming a member of HeadStuff+. Go to HeadStuffPodcasts.com

For full transcripts, links, references, and more the home of the podcast is wttepodcast.com

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33min
March 31, 2022 58: The Origins of the Gothic
What does the word "Gothic" mean to you? Gothic cathedrals and castles? Gothic fiction? Teenage goths dressed in black? Horror and the supernatural? This episode explores the origins of the gothic and one man's lasting influence on this most important of genres.

Joining me as my gothic guide is Prof Dale Townshend, Professor of Gothic Literature
at Manchester Metropolitan University.

WTTE is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network. You can support the show and get bonus content and more by becoming a member of HeadStuff+. Go to HeadStuffPodcasts.com

For full transcripts, links, references, and more the home of the podcast is wttepodcast.com

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28min
March 22, 2022 A Word To That Effect: Serendipity (Bonus Ep)
A Word To That Effect is a new series of bonus mini-episodes about a single word or phrase with a distinctly literary origin. This week: serendipity.

WTTE is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network. You can support the show and get bonus content and more by becoming a member of HeadStuff+. Go to HeadStuffPodcasts.com

For full transcripts, links, references, and more the home of the podcast is wttepodcast.com

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8min
March 08, 2022 A Word To That Effect: Cliffhanger (Bonus Ep)
A Word To That Effect is a new series of bonus mini-episodes about a single word or phrase with a distinctly literary origin. This week: cliffhanger!

WTTE is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network. You can support the show and get bonus content and more by becoming a member of HeadStuff+. Go to HeadStuffPodcasts.com

For full transcripts, links, references, and more the home of the podcast is wttepodcast.com

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9min
February 22, 2022 57: The Sensation Novel
Sensation fiction was a hugely popular genre in the 1860s. The novels were sensationally popular, but they also caused a sensation, with their plots of bigamy and murder, forgery and blackmail. In so many ways the influence of sensation fiction can still be felt today.

WTTE is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network. You can support the show and get bonus content and more by becoming a member of HeadStuff+. Go to HeadStuffPodcasts.com

For full transcripts, links, references, and more the home of the podcast is wttepodcast.com

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34min
February 08, 2022 56: Arthurian Romance
Knights in shining armour, damsels in distress, castles, chivalry and courtly love, heroic quests, dragons.

King Arthur, Camelot, Merlin, the Knights of the Round Table, the Holy Grail.

Think of King Arthur and the medieval romance and a huge number of images and tropes and cliches spring to mind.

Where does all this come from?

WTTE is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network. You can support the show and get bonus content and more by becoming a member of HeadStuff+. Go to HeadStuffPodcasts.com

For full transcripts, links, references, and more the home of the podcast is wttepodcast.com

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29min
January 25, 2022 55: A History of Dragons
Dragons have been around for a very long time.

They are one of the very few mythological creatures that have become absolutely central to popular culture; everyone knows what a dragon is. There are other important and well-known mythological creatures, but none are as ubiquitous as dragons, which can be found in Europe and the Americas, in classical and Biblical traditions, in ancient Indian tales and across Asian mythology.

So where do dragons come from? Why are they so common across cultures, and what do they mean to us today?

I chat to Professor Scott Bruce, author of the recently published Penguin Book of Dragons and an authority on dragons from antiquity to the present day.

WTTE is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network. You can support the show and get bonus content and more by becoming a member of HeadStuff+. Go to HeadStuffPodcasts.com

For full transcripts, links, references, and more the home of the podcast is wttepodcast.com

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32min

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How many episodes does Words To That Effect have?

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