In this episode, we sit down with artist and designer Gavin Day to unpick, unpack and unravel the hidden mysteries and secret powers of fonts and typefaces - how they can make meaning, move mountains and, in certain situations, save lives. Through this conversation with Gavin, a passion for letterforms emerges that may frighten some, may arouse others, and might just convince the uninitiated to look a little closer at the world of words that has been crafted around them by those silent warriors of the electronic pen: designers.
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Top 5 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes, with Kate McInnes
On today’s show, returning guest Kate McInnes confronts her lifelong struggles with Buffy addiction over a sprawling conversation about the power of YA fantasy, childhood horror, the things we lose as we grow older and the things we don’t. Expect unprovoked attacks on beloved characters, searing hot takes, surprising inclusions and a few genuine tears, as we bring Buffy back to life one last time.
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Top 5 Hated Films By Beloved Directors, with Duncan Vicat-Brown
On today's show, we sit down with writer, rager, misbehaver Duncan Vicat-Brown to discuss the LEAST-LIKED works by acclaimed directors who most film fans generally love, and try to get to the bottom of what causes a film by a seasoned and/or 'hot' filmmaker to fly so widely off-target that, on release and for years or even decades after, it languishes in obscurity, ignominy and shame. From generation-defining wunderkinds to current Oscar hopefuls, Duncan will grapple with catalogues and legacies as he attempts to redeem and redefine the lost works of some of our greatest artists - and Richard Kelly.
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Top 5 Simpsons Characters, with Caroline O'Donoghue
In this first episode of a new season, we let novelist and podcaster Caroline O'Donoghue loose on TV's favourite family, dissecting what made them work so well for so long and wrestling with their legacy - both as complex, nuanced and often contradictory individual characters, and as a collective cultural force.
Caroline is the author of four published novels including the immensely popular and excellent 'All Our Hidden Gifts' series - the second instalment of which is tearing up shelves in bookshops around the world right now. Buy and read those books, and listen to her bring her fathomless insight and insider perspective to the cartoon family that changed the way we think about cartoons, television, and life - The Simpsons.
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Top 5 Christmas Songs, with Ellie Carr
In this special festive episode, Christmas pals Ellie and Tom set out to name the five greatest Christmas songs of all time and end up discussing THIRTEEN of variable quality, cruelly mock almost every musician they bring up, and generally exude the kind of belligerent mean-spiritedness that is inextricable from the Great British Christmas (all whilst extolling the virtues of kindness and goodwill to all men - naturally).
A show for cultural obsessives, providing totally subjective (but objectively correct) rankings of books, films, movies, music, architecture, art, and just about anything else our guests are passionate enough about to put on a list and fire into the infinite.
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