ANIMALS — all episodes — Fantasy/Animation

Episode 147 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Part 1 (with Terry Lindvall)

Episode 147 of the podcast is the first in a two-part special focusing on C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia book series originally published between 1950 and 1956, where Chris and Alex look at a handful of screen adaptations that traverse the fantasy and animation intersection. For this first instalment, they compare the 1979 animated film The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe directed by Bill Melendez with the BBC serial of the same name from 1988, both of which adapted Lewis’ first and perhaps best known Narnia novel.

PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantDecember 2, 2024ADAPTATION, LITERATURE, TELEVISION, BRITISH, FANTASY, ANIMALS, MAGICComment

Archive Episode - Peppa Pig (Neville Astley & Mark Baker, 2004-) (with Richard Dyer)

Chris and Alex kick off the first in a series of episodes that give listeners a chance to revisit and review some earlier podcasts, or perhaps hear one or two instalments they might have missed first time around. For this inaugural delve back into the Fantasy/Animation archive, they look back at their conversation with Professor Richard Dyer (Emeritus Professor of Film Studies, King's College London and Professorial Fellow in Film Studies, University of St Andrews) who discussed the popular British animated television series Peppa Pig (Neville Astley & Mark Baker, 2014-) way back in May 2019.

PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantJune 24, 2024CHILDREN, FAMILY, TELEVISION, BRITISH, ANIMALS, ANIMATIONComment

Episode 92 - Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske, 1955)

Tuck in for some Valentine’s Day spaghetti and meatballs as Chris and Alex chew on Walt Disney’s celebrated cel-animated love story Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske, 1955), a musical romance released in the mid-1950s and based on the 1945 Cosmopolitan magazine story “Happy Dan, The Cynical Dog” by Ward Greene. The studio’s first CinemaScope release and a film that coincided with the opening of Disneyland in California, Lady and Tramp is rife with context and offers a number of threads that speak to the landscape of Disney animation in the 1950s.