Victorian disease and contagion. Brontës. Satire: Births, Deaths, Legacies podcast linked below. Views my own, obviously.
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It's here - #BronteStudies special issue: Sickness, Contagion, Isolation. So many thanks to so many people for their hard work on this: details of articles below ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ @RoutledgeLit @BronteParsonage
29 Mar 2021
'How can you remain in good health?' @waugh_JS timely guest edited issue of #BrontëStudies Sickness, Contagion, Isolation - now published! @RoutledgeLit @BronteParsonage tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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29 Aug 2025
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
EP78. Cartoon Comebacks: Animated Satire from #kingofthehillreboot to #SouthPark
Jo (@waugh_JS) & Adam (@elementaladam) take a look at the ways American adult animated comedy is satirising Donald Trump's administration:
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31 Jul 2025
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
Jo (@waugh_JS) & Adam (@elementaladam) are having a "dilly dally" summer (the new brat, apparently), talking about new Partridge, new South Park, new Squid Games & 28 Years Later to see if they are satire...
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30 Jun 2025
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
EP76. Charlotte Brontë Is In YOU
Could You be Satire?
Jo (@waugh_JS) & Adam (@elementaladam) investigate the strange Netflix show about putting women in cages & quoting literature at them, before exploring Brontë's own use of satire:
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24 Apr 2025
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
EP74. Satire is Risen: Eggxtra Special Easter Eggstravaganza
Jo (@waugh_JS) & Adam (@elementaladam) cast their eggspert eyes over #BlackMirror, #TheStudio, new Joan & Jericha & satirical reactions to JDV's final meeting with the Pope:
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31 Mar 2025
🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨
EP73. Satire in Suburbia (& in Amandaland)
Jo (@waugh_JS) & Adam (@elementaladam) ask why so much satire is set in Suburbia. Featuring #Amandaland #DavidLynch #Pulp & much more... (also, #Mickey17)
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26 Feb 2025
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25 Feb 2025
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
EP.72. "Nightbitch, please": Musk, Motherhood, Modernism & Satire
Jo (@waugh_JS) & Adam dissect the satire of #Nightbitch, discuss Kevin Rulo's SATIRIC MODERNISM & examine the satirical responses to Elon's... wave?
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#ComedyStudies
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25 Feb 2025
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
EP.72. "Nightbitch, please": Musk, Motherhood, Modernism & Satire
Jo (@waugh_JS) & Adam dissect the satire of #Nightbitch, discuss Kevin Rulo's SATIRIC MODERNISM & examine the satirical responses to Elon's... wave?
spotifycreators-web.app.link…
#ComedyStudies
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19 Nov 2024
🚨NEW EPISODE OUT NOW🚨
EP.69. The Satirical Body & The Horrors of Age: #GenerationZ & #TheSubstance
Jo (@waugh_JS) & Adam (@elementaladam) take a deep dive into two gruesome explorations of age in very recent works of satire:
spotifycreators-web.app.link… #TheSubstanceMovie
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28 Oct 2024
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
As the veil between worlds draws thin, Jo (@waugh_JS) & Adam (@elementaladam) explore the various relationships between satire & horror in a spoOoky #Halloween Special 👻🎃👻
Listen here:
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#InsideNo9 #SpeakNoEvil #latenightwiththedevil
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One of my kids genuinely thought this programme was called “Hurry, My Young Friends”
18 Sep 2024
Since Balamory has just got a recommission after 20yrs, who’s up for pushing @BBCScotland @bbcpress for a Raven comeback?! 3rd times a charm!! The feathers still fit in case you’re wondering!! #letthechallengebegin 😜
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Very pleased to be able to say that this is finished and out! Thanks @PalgraveLit
12 Aug 2024
Recently published: @waugh_JS's new book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontë’s work. link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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9 Aug 2024
Don’t you even know what a brat summer is?
It’s brat. You’re brat. That’s brat.
Join @waugh_JS & I as we discuss the role of satire in the trend of the summer that we very definitely fully understand, and the way brat satire is fuelling the #KamalaHarris2024 campaign.
9 Aug 2024
🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨
Ep66. My Brat Summer of Satire: American Things, Olympics, Feminist Dystopian Satire & Taking Back Greggs.
@waugh_JS & Adam talk #Brat Satire, #Kamala2024, Zoe Fairbairn's feminist satire, #Olympics Memes & much much more...
Listen:
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NEW EPISODE❗️❗️ Ryn, Jenny and Madz go a bit insane without Punzie and Charlie and talk about their thoughts going into third year ✨ open.spotify.com/episode/7hu…
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We made this for the plot … though there is no plot in a grab-bag. Hear all about Jane Eyre’s problem-attic, @elementaladam and his near miss in a witch’s spooky pancake house, and oh so much more …
12 Jul 2024
🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨
EP65. A Bridgerton, Bovary Breakfast for Posh Girls: Post GenyLex Grab Bag of Satire
@waugh_JS & @elementaladam talk about recent travels, #Bridgerton, Madame Bovary, alleged #PoshGirls, #DouglasIsCancelled & the #Labour landslide:
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12 Jul 2024
🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨
EP65. A Bridgerton, Bovary Breakfast for Posh Girls: Post GenyLex Grab Bag of Satire
@waugh_JS & @elementaladam talk about recent travels, #Bridgerton, Madame Bovary, alleged #PoshGirls, #DouglasIsCancelled & the #Labour landslide:
open.spotify.com/episode/4mM…
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5 Jul 2024
Less than 24 hours after the polls closed, that inhumane, stupid, red-meat-for-the-balcony, posturing, ruinous piece of flimsy showboating is trashed. Hell of a start.
5 Jul 2024
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has scrapped the Rwanda policy
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Has anyone tried to make “soupy m” happen yet?
"If you hand Labour a blank cheque, you will not be able to get it back."
Rishi Sunak says if the Labour Party wins power with a "supermajority", it will mean a "Labour government unchecked".
Politics latest: trib.al/YKanzN3
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“In case you hadn’t guessed, I’m being sarcastic”
4 Jun 2024
I now say "Oh, that's raspberry!" anytime I eat anything particularly good.
What Simpsons line do you use on a regular basis?
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