#ben dalton

[p34ce0fm1nd]

Speak No Evil (2024)

[nerdana]

# Now Kiss

[marril96]

Speak No Evil (2024)

[bambinafangirls]

i’m sitting in the movie theatre watching speak no evil racking my brain trying to figure out why the dad (not james mcavoy) looks so familiar. HES NOEL FROM BONES

[leresq]

I really liked Ben in Speak No Evil as a character, because he's a lead man who's allowed to be not the best dad or husband, constantly making infuriatingly nearsighted and selfish choices, but still at the end of the day he does have love for his family while also not being fully redeemed for his wrongdoings

[iightbringer]

my man ben was SO ready to risk it all for a slice of paddy u CANNOT convince me otherwise

[bibliocyrus-blog]

Biblio Cyrus enters The Secret Garden

This week Biblio Cyrus welcomes editors of The Cambridge Tab Mollie Wintle and Will Heilpern onto the show to talk about Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 classic The Secret Garden.

The novel tells of a selfish girl called Mary who is sent back to England after her mother dies of cholera in India. Locked away in a giant manor house, she passes her time exploring the corridors and grounds, eventually stumbling upon a garden that has been locked up and left unkept. The book charters Mary's growing relationship with the garden, which proves life changing in so many different ways.

We will be looking in particular at the spatiality of the garden and what it might mean in modern contexts. Is it a private space? Is it one antithetical to the city? Does the garden have restorative qualities and do gardens and humans share a vital interdependence?

We will of course be playing the usual eclectic mix of Miley Cyrus, including a few racey cover versions of her work, whilst using the trope of the garden to reflect upon spaces of intimacy and intersubjectivity in the singer's own life.

Can Miley, like a garden, ever be tamed? Can we, like the sickly protagonists of The Secret Garden, be cured by Miley?

Miss our last episode in which we talked Roald Dahl's The Witches with Sophia Vahdati? Listen back here on our Cam FM webpage.

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Biblio Cyrus talks Roald Dahl and The Witches

This week's show will see us turn back the clock to what will have been, for many viewers, their first tastes of reading: Roald Dahl.

The Witches (1983) tells the story of a young boy who lives with his Grandma having been orphaned at an early age. His Grandma teaches him that witches do, in fact, exist in reality and not to believe adults. We learn how to recognise a witch, how to protect ourselves against them and what fate would befall us should we ever be unlucky enough to encounter one.

This is a tale of transformation, abjection and feminity. It is also a tale of childhood, fear and the maternal body. Roald Dahl teaches us that the future will never turn out the way that we planned it, and that maybe this is for the best.

Dahl's cult classic will incite discussion into femininity, the female body and the 'dangers' of female sexuality as historically engendered in the figure of the witch. We will also be discussing metamorphosis, memory and childhood.

Interspersed with all this will be, of course, our infamous soundtrack of Miley Cyrus. Miley's own career and media presence will highlight ways in which the figure of the witch has lingered on in depictions of female sexuality and discuss how this figure could indeed be seen as feminist and subversively critical of the same patriarchy that invented her.

We will be joined in the studio by Sophia Vahdati, student of French and Spanish, who is looking forward to a trip down memory lane.