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PODCAST

Still Scared: Talking Children"s Horror

Ren Wednesday, Adam Whybray

A podcast in which one film lecturer and one scaredy-cat discuss creepy, spooky and disturbing children"s books, films and tv.

tv & film

All Episodes

30:23

Mini Episode: Picture Books

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2019/05/13

Join us this time for a mini-episode, as Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray gleefully chomp on a monstrous spread of picture books from Maurice Sendak, David McKee, Beatrix Potter and Neil Gaiman. Featuring undulating midnight oceans, trembling patchwork elephants and the existential crisis of a monster who finds himself treated as a boy, it's a zippy tour around the creepiest picture books of our childhoods. A full transcript of the episode is available at:

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55:55

Room 13 & Nightmare Stairs

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2019/04/18

Once again, spooky kids, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are here to take you into the world of children's horror literature with Room 13 from 1989 and Nightmare Stairs from 1997, both by Robert Swindells. This time, Ren and Adam are at the seaside, enjoying the fresh air, the pier treats, and the sound of the Dracula in the next room gnawing on his latest victim. Join us for stakes, sleepwalking, stairs and a special guest interview with a fictional teenager. A full transcript is available at:

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69:16

Something Wicked This Way Comes

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2019/03/12

What's that haunted tune whistling through the calliope? Find out with Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray as they take a tour of Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Circus and explore the whirlingly evocative, if admittedly morally confusing world of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. We talk Dust Witches, balloon funerals and masculinity, in a rollickingly ghoulish episode filled with plenty of children's horror to get your panic-coloured teeth into. A full transcript of this episode is

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51:55

The Garden of Darkness

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2019/02/11

In this episode Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray talk about the post-apocalyptic Young Adult novel The Garden of Darkness by Gillian Murray Kendall from 2014. We discuss what makes a horror, look at the early modern influences on the book, and despair of our own chances in a post-apocalyptic setting. Plus we discover the natural source of morale.* Content notes, there are a few: Discussion of an adult character preying on children, including in a sexually-loaded way, discussion of eugenics and

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89:48

Children of the Stones

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2019/01/15

Happy day, spooky kids! In this episode Ren Wednesday, Adam Whybray and returning guest Ali Kay delve into the brain-washing, time-looping world of the 1977 BBC TV series Children of the Stones. Join us for Morris dancing, Solar Serpents and educational asides into the history of surgery, as we try to untangle the plot of this creepy and atmospheric seventies classic. A full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/26-childrenofthestones

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72:58

The Box of Delights

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2018/12/28

What's up, spooky kids? Join Still Scared for their Christmas-or-thereabouts episode about the 1984 TV series, The Box of Delights. This time, Ren Wednesday, Adam Whybray and special guest Willow discuss whimsical kidnapping, dolphin chariots and 1930s slang, and Willow really gets some #teachervibes going. All this and more from a podcast that can proudly say that it's not in the pocket of Big Posset. A full transcript of the episode is available at:

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40:01

The Dark Crystal

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2018/12/05

In their most squamous, writhing, goopy and tendril-filled episode yet, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray explore the vibrant landscape of 1982's dark fantasy puppet film, The Dark Crystal. Join us for this wallow in a many-textured world, featuring a special guest appearance from Adam's unattached false front tooth. A full transcript of this episode is available in the show notes, here: https://stillscared.podigee.io/24-dark-crystal

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52:10

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

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2018/11/15

This episode we invite you to join Ren Wednesday, Adam Whybray and a cast of geese, scamps and orphans in the Dickensian horror-romp that is The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken. Featuring shipwreck, secret passageways and a villainous governess, this book delivers the thrills and chills, and a plethora of Textures of the Week. Content note: description of a child's death by drowning. A full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/23-wolves

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48:01

Malevolents & Anniversary Catch-up

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2018/10/31

In this episode, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray celebrate one year of Still Scared with a ghost story graphic novella, Malevolents: Click Click, by Thom Burgess and Joe Becci. We huddle in front of our campfire to discuss mental illness in horror, ghosts in our hometowns, and take a look back on what we've learned about children's horror over the year of our podcast. A full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/22-malevolents

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44:14

Thornhill

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2018/10/12

In this episode, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray alliterate themselves into a particularly gothic gloomy ghost story, 2017's Thornhill by Pam Smy. We discuss fibrous drawings, ambivalent endings and the powerlessness of childhood, as we talk about this uniquely told modern horror. This episode also features a particularly crunchy and unanimous Texture of the Week that all you creepy puppet fans won't want to miss! A full transcript of this episode is available at:

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60:10

The Witches

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2018/09/29

In this episode, Adam Whybray, Ren Wednesday and returning guest Alex Ava discuss 'one of the cursed books of childhood', Roald Dahl's The Witches. Together they discuss monstrous femininity, death positivity and the horror of the English seaside hotel, and Alex mounts a passionate defence of being turned into a mouse. A full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/20-witches

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44:29

The Pogles

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2018/08/29

Get yourself a flask of bilberry wine, and join Ren and Adam as they talk about the 1965 stop-motion animation series The Pogles, by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. In this episode we reminisce about what Postgate and Firmin's work has meant to us, chat about folk horror, and do more voices than might be strictly necessary. Cosy horror has never been more charming. A full transcript of this episode is available in the show notes at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/19-pogles

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55:11

Round The Twist

Still Scared: Talking Children"s Horror ·

2018/07/24

Strange things happen when you're going round the twist, and this week Ren and Adam re-discover this childhood favourite and it's particular brand of gross-out horror. We talk shaggy-dog stories and pushing the boundaries of children's horror, and decide that it's probably for the best not to dress up in those dead clown's clothes that wash ashore in an old trunk. Content note: Scatological humour, pregnancy storyline. A full transcript of this episode is in the shownotes at:

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54:07

The Water-Babies

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2018/07/02

In this episode, your hosts Adam Whybray and Ren Wednesday go way back to 1863 for their discussion of the bizarre and 'nearly unreadable' Victorian morality tale The Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley. Join us for an underwater spectacular of whimsy, heavy-handed moralising and offhand bigotry, that'll have you saying: 'I'm glad I didn't have to read this book!' A full transcript of this episode is available at: http://stillscared.podigee.io/17-waterbabies Content note for discussion of a part

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45:15

The Crysalids

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2018/06/10

In this week's podcast, your hosts Ren and Adam discuss the 1955 novel The Crysalids by John Wyndham in an unusually disciplined 45 minute episode! This episode we chat about the implications of a telepathic society, enjoy descriptions of mutant flora, and congratulate Wyndham on his refreshing lack of misogyny, as well as try a little bit of telepathy of our own. A loving hand-crafted transcript of this episode is available at: http://stillscared.podigee.io/16-crysalids Content note for

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59:30

Over the Garden Wall

Still Scared: Talking Children"s Horror ·

2018/05/26

Trees made of people, skeletons dressed in pumpkins, and a paddle steamer of holidaying frogs distraught at not getting to hear a bassoon - it can only be Over the Garden Wall! Join Ren Wednesday, Adam Whybray and special guest Alex Ava as they journey into The Unknown and discuss the charming, bizarre, and assuredly disturbing things they discover there. A full transcript of this episode is available at: http://stillscared.podigee.io/15-over-the-garden-wall

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58:24

Mercedes Ice and Kasper in the Glitter

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2018/05/09

City kids, moonlight dudes and pearly queens, welcome to Philip Ridley week on Still Scared! In this episode Ren and Adam discuss the urban fairy tales Mercedes Ice and Kasper in the Glitter and chat about imperfect parents, gender performativity and whether marmalade would taste good on banoffee pie. Join us in the curious worlds that Ridley offers to get lost in. A transcript of this episode is available at: http://stillscared.podigee.io/14-mercedeskasper

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58:43

Creeped Out

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2018/04/25

What's up, fellow kids? Ren and Adam put on their backwards baseball caps, throw a skateboard over their shoulders, and show up to talk about the 2017 CBBC children's horror anthology series Creeped Out! We talk spooks both high and low-tech, from Machiavellian puppets, to possessive AIs, body-swapping parasites to plants allergic to heavy metal, and are reminded of the the horrors of being a teenager. Content note for discussion of emotionally abusive relationships in the context of the episode

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64:01

Paperhouse and Marianne Dreams

Still Scared: Talking Children"s Horror ·

2018/04/10

Ren, Adam and special guest Ali Kay delve into Catherine Storr's 1958 novel Marianne Dreams, and the 1990 film based upon it, Paperhouse. We go full children's horror this week, as we encounter a not-father brandishing a hammer, a pencil that makes your drawings come to life, and a sinister company of cyclopian standing stones. The popular 'Texture of the Week' feature also returns, with some memorably unpalatable ice-cream. Heads up for discussion of the father as a threatening and

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59:54

Witch Week

Still Scared: Talking Children"s Horror ·

2018/03/20

This episode your co-hosts go back to one of Ren's childhood favourites, Witch Week by Dianna Wynne Jones. Adam and Ren discuss ad-lib approaches to magic, the horror of not being able to escape your classmates and exactly how difficult it would actually be to ride a broomstick, as they talk about this decidedly chilly and unsettling boarding school story. Heads up for discussion of bullying and an extract from the book in which a character deliberately burns themselves. A full transcript of

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