Words to That Effect

Words To That Effect Episode 21: The Invention of Time Time, as we understand it today, was only really invented in the Victorian era. We take it for granted today that our phones and watches and other devices are accurate to the second.…

Why Are There So Many Crime Thrillers With 'Girl' in the Title? Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, Luckiest Girl Alive, Final Girls... There's no shortage of crime novels with 'girl' in the title since the huge success of Gillian Flynn's…

*This week's episode continues on from Ep18. So, if you haven't listened to that, head on over there first * “For me, utopianism is the creative attempt by a group of people to respond to the great challenges of any age and to do so in a…

WTTE Episode 18: What Is Utopia? This is a story of three journeys, by three people, in three very different times. But each of the journeys ends in the same area in the west of Ireland. And each journey is founded on a search for a more…

Words To That Effect #17 | The 10% Brain Myth (from Self-Help to Pulp Fiction to Hollywood) Do we use only 10% of our brain capacity? (Hint: No) “It is estimated that most human beings only use 10% of the brain’s capacity. Imagine if we…

This is an episode about who we are as humans. And, more importantly, where we are going. About a future in which technology and biology have merged in ways that are in equal part fascinating and terrifying. A future of unparalleled…

Episode 15: The Scarlet Pimpernel & Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel is a character now long disconnected from his origins in a 1903 novel. The Pimpernel is a mysterious Englishman who uses elaborate disguises to heroically rescue…

The American writer H.P. Lovecraft wrote weird fiction. His work is both weird, in the conventional sense of the word, and Weird, in a more specific sense. His tales are not typical horror stories, but instead invoke a type of cosmic…

I've been working hard for the last 2 months to get a brand new season of Words To That Effect ready to go. If you're stopping by for the first time - great! All the episodes of Season 1 are available here If you’re already a fan and you’ve…

This week’s episode, the end of Season 1, is a Christmas Special. It’s a collaboration with the disturbingly good horror podcast, Down Below The Reservoir. The result is an episode about the ghost stories of MR James, followed by an…