This week we’re setting sail on a kinda slutty immigrant adventure, with the beautifully understated Brooklyn. Kim and Alice enjoy all the messy drama whilst also uncovering the history of Irish immigration and why you should always go drinking with your priest.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle
Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle
Producer: Helen Hamilton

Sources

• Article: National Parks Service 'Post-peak Immigration Years'
• Article: Irish Times, 'Making Brooklyn in Enniscorthy: 'Saoirse Ronan was lovely. She had a cup of tea in my kitchen'.
• Article: Irish America Magazine, 'Shades of Brooklyn'
• Article: Brownstoner, '5 Gone-but-Not-Forgotten Brooklyn Shopping Emporium's
• Article: Baxter St. 'Day in Ellis Island, 1951: Erika Stone Portfolio'

We’re getting spooky this week as Kim and Alice get increasingly frustrated by gothic horror ‘Crimson Peak’. Whilst the characters are ignoring both the red flags and red ghosts, our hosts discuss gothic literature and Guillermo del Toro’s hatred of faces.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle
Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle
Producer: Helen Hamilton

This week we’re joined by Em, host of Verbal Diorama, to discuss quite possibly the perfect movie: the 90s adventure, horror fun-time classic, The Mummy. Em explains how the film came to be (thank-you Babe: Pig in the City) whilst Kim and Alice find out that love makes you do some crazy things, like unhinge your jaw and cover Egyptians in boils.

For more fascinating film history, you can find Em at:
Verbal Diorama Podcast


Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle
Editor: Keith Nagle
Producer: Helen Hamilton

Sources

• Blog post: Egypt at the Manchester Museum, “Representation and Reality in ‘The Mummy’ (1999)” by Matt Szafran AND “The Cult of Imhotep”
• Screenrant article: “How much of The Mummy 1999 is actually real?”
• Egypt Exploration Society website
• Egypt Exploration Society 1926 Annual Report
• BBC podcast The Forum episode: “Imhotep, the man behind The Mummy”
• Blog post: Clare College, University of Cambridge, “Egyptomania” by Toby Wilkinson
• Article from Enterprise: The State of the Nation (Egypt): “A look back at Egypt’s roaring ‘20s”
• Sky History article: “The curse of Tutankhamun and the mummy’s tomb”