Fetch the Smelling Salts

Dec 18 2024 46 ep. 66 mins 4
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Discussing period dramas from every time period and around the world. 

  TV & Film  Comedy  History
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The Fainting Couch: Small Things Like These (2024 Movie) - ft. Dr Hugh Turpin

Dec 18 2024 47 mins  
Send us a text In this Fainting Couch special, Alice is off to the cinema with friend of the podcast Hugh Turpin to experience 2024’s saddest Christmas movie: Small Things Like These. We’re discussing national trauma, Ireland’s evolving relationship to the past, and why you should beware the Coal Hole. Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle Editor: Keith Nagle Producer: Helen Hamilton

Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1994 TV Episode)

Dec 04 2024 63 mins  
Send us a text This week Kim and Alice are (re)watching the ‘délicieux’ Agatha Christie classic: Hercule Poirot’s Christmas. We’re talking about locked-room mysteries, glove snobbery and the haunting wail of a dying pig toy. Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle Producer: Helen Hamilton

The Handmaiden (2016 Movie)

Nov 20 2024 58 mins  
Send us a text Get your special jingle bells ready because this week Kim and Alice are covering the Korean historical thriller, The Handmaiden. We’re discussing colonial dynamics, erotic furniture and how too much real estate inevitably leads to murder basements. Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle Producer: Helen Hamilton

Brooklyn (2015 Movie)

Nov 07 2024 58 mins  
Send us a text 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 Articl

Crimson Peak (2015 Movie)

Oct 23 2024 71 mins  
Send us a text 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

The Mummy (1999 Movie)

Oct 10 2024 96 mins  
Send us a text 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 fascinatin

Belle (2013 Movie)

Sep 25 2024 67 mins  
Send us a text Come on law boys, grab your wigs and let’s hang as we enjoy the beautiful historical drama, Belle. Alice and Kim discuss what they want from a period drama, and how a glossy romantic story can be the starting point for learning about the worst parts of human history. Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle Producer: Helen Hamilton Sources W

El Cid (1961 Movie)

Sep 11 2024 80 mins  
Send us a text We’re back! Season 2 of Fetch the Smelling Salts kicks off in style with historian Clara Chamberlain helping us make sense of dictator-funded epic dude-in-a-desert film, El Cid. We’re talking about the creation of national myths, fist-fights at a funeral and the most insane final 15 minutes of any film, ever. Find more from Clara on: Instagram: @clarabchamberlain

Chariots of Fire (1981 Movie)

Jul 04 2024 74 mins  
Send us a text We’re throwing our heads back, flailing our arms and running off for a summer break, but there’s still time for Kim and Alice to discuss the classic ‘Chariots of Fire’. We have Olympic trivia, separate the fact from fiction and discuss all manner of dongs. Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle Editor: Keith Nagle Producer: Helen Hamilton Sources Documentary: Dir. Adria

Gladiator (2000 Movie)

Jun 20 2024 69 mins  
Send us a text Period dramas are for dudes too! And this week we have Tan and Keon from the awesome Pastmaster podcast to help us navigate the dudiest dudefest around: Gladiator. We’re thinking about the Roman Empire an exactly normal amount and discussing tickle-snake surprises, extremely extra Emperors and historically-accurate product endorsement. Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle E