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A podcast exploring gothic food, horror, and the culture of consumption.In A Curious Appetite, Dr Alessandra Pino examines food not simply as something we consume, but as something that consumes us — shaping memory, identity, longing, and fear.
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Flossy Phillips: The Texture of Tripe (opens the original)
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The Texture of Tripe is a bit of a punch to the gut, in the best possible way. In this episode of A Curious Appetite , I’m joined by Flossy (Flora Phillips) for a gloriously gutsy conversation about offal, butchery, art, appetite and why organs can inspireequal parts fascination, pleasure and disgust. Naturally, we start on a slightly spooky foot. You’ll see what I mean. There are prophetic artworks, strange signs of things to come and a Charming Baker calf already marked out in butcher’s cuts,
The Canal as Archive: Reading Robert Aickman's The River Runs Uphill (opens the original)
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In this episode of A Curious Appetite , I’m joined by Dr Dan O’Brien to talk about Robert Aickman’s The River Runs Uphill , cultural memory, Britain’s waterways and some of the ideas currently shaping our research for The River Remembers: A Gothic Voyage through Forgotten Histories of the Thames . Originally released for paid subscribers, this conversation is now open to everyone. Best known for his strange and unsettling fiction, Robert Aickman was also a committed conservationist who helped es
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