Words To That Effect

By Conor Reid

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Subscribers: 92
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Episodes: 73

Timon
 Jul 16, 2024
An awesome podcast about cool facts from literature. Very fascinating and knowledgeable.


 Mar 30, 2022

Description

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, history, science, and popular culture intersect and inspire. From the Victorian past to utopian futures, dinosaurs to detectives, zombies to mummies, how does literature shape our understanding of popular culture? Find out more at https://wttepodcast.com. WTTE is a part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network. Support the show and get bonus episodes and more by joining HeadStuff+ (https://headstuffpodcasts.com/show/words-to-that-effect) .

Episode Date
The Greatest Matter: A Victorian Gothic Crime Tale
Oct 06, 2024
WTTE 2024 Update & Announcing: The Greatest Matter
Sep 21, 2024
WTTE Season 6 Update
Jul 01, 2022
60: Dungeons & Dragons
May 19, 2022
59: Robin Hood
Apr 30, 2022
58: The Origins of the Gothic
Mar 31, 2022
A Word To That Effect: Serendipity (Bonus Ep)
Mar 22, 2022
A Word To That Effect: Cliffhanger (Bonus Ep)
Mar 08, 2022
57: The Sensation Novel
Feb 22, 2022
56: Arthurian Romance
Feb 08, 2022
55: A History of Dragons
Jan 25, 2022
Season 6 Preview
Jan 18, 2022
54: Underwater Worlds
Jul 21, 2021
53: Fiction & Food
Jun 11, 2021
52: Gothic Forests
Apr 30, 2021
51: Desert Fictions
Mar 31, 2021
50: Arsene Lupin
Mar 09, 2021
49: Robots
Jan 28, 2021
Announcement: WTTE & HeadStuff+
Jan 20, 2021
48: Fictions of Antarctica
Dec 22, 2020
47: Alternate History
Dec 08, 2020
46: Weird Westerns
Nov 24, 2020
45: Mashups, Remixes, and Frankenfiction
Nov 10, 2020
Season 5 Preview
Nov 04, 2020
44: Words Dunnit (WTTE + Shedunnit Live)
Apr 03, 2020
43: Lost Books
Mar 11, 2020
42: The Missing Link
Feb 26, 2020
41: Romance Novels
Feb 11, 2020
40: Time Travel Tales
Jan 29, 2020
39: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Dec 10, 2019
38: Children's Picture Books
Nov 26, 2019
37: The Golden Age of Piracy
Nov 12, 2019
36: Blood, Death, and Varney the Vampire
Oct 29, 2019
35: Jekyll & Hyde
Oct 15, 2019
Season 4 Preview
Oct 08, 2019
34: The Art of the Short Story
Jun 04, 2019
33: The Noun of Nouns (The Rise of Modern Fantasy)
May 21, 2019
32: Golden Age Detective Fiction
May 07, 2019
31: Steampunk, Pt 2 (Even Greater London)
Apr 23, 2019
30: Steampunk, Pt1 (Fetch Me My Fighting Trousers)
Apr 08, 2019
29: Travels in Four-Dimensional Space
Mar 11, 2019
28: Pulp Fiction (Amazing Stories of the Sisters of Tomorrow)
Feb 25, 2019
27: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Feb 11, 2019
26: Unwrapping the Egyptian Mummy
Jan 28, 2019
25: Dinosaurs (Palaeontology to Pyjamas)
Jan 14, 2019
Season 3 Preview
Jan 10, 2019
24: WTTE Live at Liberty Hall
Dec 31, 2018
23: Adaptation (How Does a Book Become a Film?)
Jul 30, 2018
Two Announcements and an Update
Jul 16, 2018
22: Book Clubs: Revolution and Politics
Jul 02, 2018
21: The Invention of Time
Jun 18, 2018
20: Domestic Noir
Jun 04, 2018
19: Climate Change Fiction (Utopia, Pt2)
May 21, 2018
18: What Is Utopia? (Utopia, Pt 1)
May 07, 2018
17: The 10% Brain Myth
Mar 26, 2018
16: Transhumanism, Fiction, and Immortality
Mar 12, 2018
15: The Scarlet Pimpernel & Baroness Orczy
Feb 26, 2018
14: Weird Fiction & HP Lovecraft
Feb 12, 2018
Season 2 Preview
Feb 06, 2018
13: The Ghost Stories of MR James
Dec 18, 2017
12: The Horrifically Complicated History of Zombies
Nov 27, 2017
11: Cesare Lombroso & The Born Criminal
Nov 13, 2017
10: The Endless Influence of Robinson Crusoe
Oct 30, 2017
9: Imaginary Countries and the Ruritanian Romance
Oct 16, 2017
8: A Lawyer, an Author, and a Murderer
Oct 02, 2017
7: Overpopulation from Malthus to Manila
Sep 18, 2017
6: Neurasthenia, Cowboys, and Feminists
Sep 04, 2017
5: Canals on Mars
Aug 20, 2017
4: What is Popular Literature?
Aug 06, 2017
3: Irish Science Fiction
Jul 20, 2017
2: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and Spiritualism
Jul 10, 2017
1: Invasion Fiction, William Le Queux, and Fake News
Jun 25, 2017
Introduction
Jun 22, 2017