ADULT — all episodes — Fantasy/Animation

Episode 52 - Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi, 2007)

For the first in a special series of listener selections, Episode 52 has Chris and Alex get to grips with Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi, 2007), taking inspiration from social media suggestions that were submitted around the broader theme of diversity and inclusion. Adapted from Marjane Satrapi’s own autobiographical graphic novels Persepolis and Persepolis 2 (originally published in November 2000), Persepolis provides a stark - and often humorous - depiction of national trauma told through Marji’s own experience as she navigates the Iranian Revolution and overthrow of the Shah regime and Pahlavi dynasty; is exiled to Austria, before returning to Iran where she marries (and divorces); and climaxes with her arrival into France.

PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantJuly 20, 2020COMICS, ADAPTATION, ADULT, BIOGRAPHY, SUBJECTIVITYComment

Episode 21 - Aladdin (Ron Clements & John Musker, 1992) (with Steve Henderson)

In episode 21, Chris and Alex are joined by Steve Henderson - Editor of the Skwigly Online Animation Magazine and Director of the Manchester Animation Festival, and Senior Lecturer in Animation at the Manchester School of Art - to discuss the Disney animated musical Aladdin (Ron Clements & John Musker, 1992). With the live-action/CG remake soon to hit cinema screens, this episode provides the perfect opportunity to revisit what has made this popular cel-animated fantasy so enduring among audiences.

PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantMay 20, 2019WALT DISNEY, MUSICAL, CEL-ANIMATION, ADULT, ADAPTATIONComment

Episode 19 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise, 1996)

For episode 19, Chris and Alex revisit the Walt Disney Studio and its adaptation of Victor Hugo’s nineteenth-century Gothic novel for its cel-animated musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise, 1996). A melodrama set against the backdrop of medieval Paris, the film reworks its classic source material and gives it the Mouse House treatment, bringing Hugo’s mature literary Gothicism together with Disney’s ‘cartoon’ principles.