Juvenalia
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Hey! We’re back! Alan has never seen Miracle On 34th Street, Andrea has never seen Gremlins… until now. We’re talking about Gizmo, we’re talking about Phoebe Cates’s inappropriate Christmas stories, we’re tsalking about Mara Wilson and Richard Attenborough. All that good stuff. Thanks for sticking around, see you in 2025!
Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too.
Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/
Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.
We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia
This episode was produced by Alan.
Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
On Halloween Night 1992, the BBC aired Ghostwatch, which purported to be a live investigation into a house and family that had been plagued by poltergeist activity. The studio segments were hosted by Michael Parkinson, while children’s presenter Sarah Greene explored the house and interviewed the family at the center of the haunting. Things started to go very wrong and the show ended in disaster. Due to a quirk of scheduling, a large part of the audience didn’t realise that it was all fake. Ghostwatch is frequently listed as one of the scariest TV moments of all time. Ghostwatch was written by Stephen Volk and directed by Lesley Manning.
Comics writer and artist Nick Roche joins us to relive his experience of watching Ghostwatch, aged 13, dressed as Batman for Halloween.
Nick is @NickRoche. His orignal graphic novel Scarenthood is out now and he’s currently the robot designer for Transformers:EarthSpark on Nickolodeon.
Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too.
Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/
Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.
We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia
This episode was produced by Alan.
Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
Hey there, Alan and Andrea have some recommendations for you now that autumn has properly hit. They’ve got an album and three TV shows. We say recommendations but you’ve definitely heard of at least two of these already. The things are:
Hayley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden (with some bonus chat about Cat Cylde)
Frasier (told you you’d heard of some of them already)
Gilmore Girls (ditto, also the cheek of Alan to go to great lengths to explain how he wanted to avoid obvious choices for autumn albums and then pick GILMORE GIRLS as a TV rec)
Midnight Mass (Netflix)
Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too.
Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/
Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.
We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. If you liked this episode you’ll liove Started/Finished. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia
This episode was produced by Alan.
Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
Happy Bisexuality Awareness Week! To celebrate, award winning food TikTok/Instagram person Sian Conway joined us to talk about Brainiac: Science Abuse. If you know you know. We talked all about our school experiences of science, Richard “The Hamster“ Hammond, and of course, Jon Tickle walking across a swimming pool full of custard. We’d also forgotten quite how sexist the show was so we pitch some ideas to rebalance the scales if the show ever comes back.
Sian is @sianconway. She won the Irish Food Writing Award for best Instagram/TikTok account in 2023.
Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too.
Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/
Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.
We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia
This episode was produced by Alan.
Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.
Writer Rachel Connolly joins us to talk about Disney’s The Fox And The Hound (1981). We’re asking all the big questions this episode, questions like: why does Disney keep making sexy foxes? How much, if any, moral instruction do children take from the media they consume? Did the worm in Snow White have a face? And many more.
Rachel is @RachelConnoll14. Her debut novel Lazy City is out now. Her Substack is rachelconnolly.substack.com. Both are excellent.
Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too.
Andrea @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/
Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.
We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia
This episode was produced by Alan.
Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.