Between the Butcher and the Block

By: That's Not Canon Productions
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  • The Butcher and the Block met ten years ago in a high security Queensland prison, and between them have spent almost fifty years in some of our most notorious institutions (prisons and universities). From their earliest endeavours, creating productions of Shakespeare in the slammer, they have wilfully and cheekily been juxtaposing high and low brow. This podcast, their latest collaboration, could be called big ideas for/from ordinary people. It harkens back to a time when philosophy, politics, and metaphysics were not the sole purview of the educated elites, and brings together guests with a common core belief but different backgrounds.

     

    Why are you here? When we take away the outward trappings of your station, occupation, and accomplishments, at your core, who are you? These are the questions the presenters ask of one another, and of their guests as they willingly place themselves between the Butcher and the Block.

     

    There are also bawdy jokes and low-tech silly sound effects.


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  • Between the Butcher and the Block - episode

    Between the Butcher and the Block - episode
    Mar 19 2021
    Two on one in our season finale this week as Steve and Rob talk to Nick. We discuss sport (poorly), personality typing, personal training tips for lazy people, mental health and its links to creativity and entrepreneurship, social media, RUOK?, parenthood, the (in)visibility of the homeless, and – of course – prisons.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Between the Butcher and the Block - episode 5

    Between the Butcher and the Block - episode 5
    Mar 5 2021

    Our guests this week are Angel and Emmy, two single mums with a passion for community from very different backgrounds. They talk eloquently about love, activism, racism, education, parenting, losing children, feminism, and Shakespeare in Prisons.

     


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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Between the Butcher and the Block - episode 4

    Between the Butcher and the Block - episode 4
    Feb 19 2021
    This weeks guests have long experience with prisons and the incarcerated in the US. We talk to Curt and Coss about inspiration, redemption, connection, racism, and (of course) Shakespeare in prisons.

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    1 hr and 16 mins

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