The FrankenPod

A podcast stitched together from the corpses of mystery, noir and gothic literature and cinema http://thefrankenpod.libsyn.com/website https://thefrankenpod.wordpress.com

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Penny for your thoughts? Penny Dreadful Episode 1ish, 2 & 3 with Courtney of the Cult of Domesticity

Swears, Spoilers and the ever growing list of Dorian Gray's fetishes. 

Whoops! I cut off a bit of episode 1.

So here is the rest of episode 1 and then Episodes 2 & 3.

Courtney from Cult of Domesticity and Morgan wander through the very gothic alleyways and opium dens of Penny Dreadful (the tv show).

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Lost Highway (1997) But this time it's time travel...

Lost Highway (1997) But this time it’s time travel…

Swears, Spoilers and Particia Arquette’s terrifying platform heels.

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Lost Highway is a movie that has a few explanations and defies clear and conherent definitions. One of the ways that the plot of Lost Highway can be, if not explained, then at least visualised is as a Möbius strip. Wikipedia; is a surface with…

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Lost Highway (1997) but this time it's time travel

Swears, Spoilers and Patricia Arquette's massive platform heels.

  Brent and Morgan watched the same David Lynch movie...

With very different results.

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Penny for your thoughts Part One ~ Penny Dreadful TV series with Courtney from Cult of Domesticity

Penny for your thoughts Part One ~ Penny Dreadful TV series with Courtney from Cult of Domesticity

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In this episode, Courtney from The Cult of Domesticity and Morgan try to stay on topic and give a very mature analysis of Penny Dreadful Season One Episode One. The whole of season one was supposed to be a two-part episode. As you can tell that went very well.

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Penny for your thoughts? Penny Dreadful Episode 1 with Courtney of Cult of Domesticity

Swears, Spoilers and Ethan Chandler who is definitely NOT a werewolf...

Vampires, Demons and Corpses oh my!

Courtney from Cult of Domesticity and Morgan wander through the very gothic alleyways and opium dens of Penny Dreadful (the tv show).

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Harry Potter and the Gothic Podcast

This accompanies our two part chat about the Harry Potter universe and how it interacts with the gothic.

Our guest for this episode was Kat who is a Hufflepuff, music teacher and Harry Potter fanfiction enthusiast.

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Harry Potter and Alan Rickman's Tiny Tootsies - Harry Potter Part 2

Part Two

Swears, Spoilers and things that might upset the fandom

Kat joins us to chat about Harry Potter. We think it might be gothic...

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Dumbledore and the continued endangerment of children - Harry Potter as Gothic

Swears, Spoilers and things that might upset the fandom

Kat joins us to chat about Harry Potter. We think it might be gothic...

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Who the hell was Ann Radcliffe?

This episode accompanies our episode on Ann Radcliffe. That is The Frankenpod, episode 9 season 2.

Ann Radcliffe was one of the foundational writers of the gothic novel. But the term gothic novels was not in common usage so they were referred to as romances.

Ann Radcliffe was born ann ward on july 6th 1764.

Her dad was a haberdasher and her mum was, well, her mum.

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Who is Ann Radcliffe?

Swears, Spoilers and Assassin Monks...

Morgan tells Brent about Ann Radcliffe, the hermetic aunt of the gothic novel.

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A little about Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

This article accompanies our most recent episode on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island. 

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Robert Louis Stevenson was quite a character, he had bronchial trouble all his life…

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Jekyll 

This week Morgan read the 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and Brent watched the 2007 tv series Jekyll.

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The book is the story of a doctor and his terrible secret.

The tv show is also about a doctor and his terrible secret except with shiny…

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Jekyll - You're Not My Husband!

Swears, Spoilers and Kat in correction corner!

Morgan read the 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Brent watched the 2007 BBC series Jekyll

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VOTE FOR US by the 14 of February 2019 Australian Podcast Awards

This episode of The Frankenpod Morgan tells Brent a bit about the first gothic novel The Castle of Otranto and its creator, Horatio Walpole the 4th Earl of Oxford, known for our purposes as Horace Walpole.

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Horace Walpole was the son of the first British prime minister Robert Walpole and entered into politics himself as the elected member for Callington Cornwall. Horace Walpole never went to Callington. The constituency was what was known as a rotten borough which meant that an elected member of a very small area could be gain the same amount of influence as someone who was elected by a very populated area.

Horace spent 43 years building a gothic mansion called Strawberry Hill which is a quilt of gothic architectural elements all represented in one large building, as promised during the podcast here are some photos of Strawberry Hill:

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Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto anonymously in 1764, but the preface claims that it is a found text discovered by Catholic family in the north of England.

It is a story in which a tyrant and illegitimate ruler of the castle of Otranto named Manfred attempts through various nefarious and immoral means to maintain his lordship of Otranto.

When his son Conrad is killed by a massive helmet with a particular resemblance to the helmet on the statue of the founder of Otranto, Alfonso the Good, Manfred begins to panic and freak out. He tries to divorce his wife Hippolita and marry Isabella the young woman who his son was supposed to marry.

Thankfully it turns out that more that one person or entity is determined to stop Manfred’s evil machinations.

Flipping Patriarchy – Horace Walpole and The Castle of Otranto VOTE FOR US by the 14 of February 2019 Australian Podcast Awards This episode of The Frankenpod Morgan tells Brent a bit about the first gothic novel 

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Flipping Patriarchy - Horace Walpole & The Castle of Otranto

Spoilers, Swears and One Very Grumpy Statue

Morgan tells Brent about the original gothic hipster (he did it before it was cool) Horace Walpole, his novel The Castle of Otranto and his ridiculous mansion Strawberry Hill.

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VOTE FOR US by the 14 of February 2019

Australian Podcast Awards

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The Bride (of Frankenstein/Sting)

The Bride Season 2 Episode 6 of The Frankenpod

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As it’s our podcast anniversary we thought it might be nice to return to our origins. But not Frankenstein and his creaturebut the potential second creature. The woman who raises so many issues of consent, possibly the most culturally visible character to be born out…

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The Bride (of Frankenstein / Sting)

Swears, Spoilers and Saline Solution

It's a tale as old as time

Man creates male creature, man creates female creature, female creature hates man, man is Sting.

The Bride of Frankenstein 1935 vs. The Bride 1985

Promo is The Novel Predictions Podcast

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