Show Notes 101A and B and a Blog Introduction!
Welcome Agents!
First thing’s first: What’s this blog for? This is a place for us to give you news about the podcast, announcements, and—most often—show notes. What are show notes? Well, anything we really wanted to share that didn’t make it into the podcast itself and any links we promised to provide. Feel free to comment on any of these posts! Anything we put here will also be shared on our Tumblr, so if you’d rather follow us there, go right ahead.
Now that we’ve uploaded our first two episodes of Podcast 13, here are some of the links we promised to give you in the podcast.
In 101A, our first fantastic guest, Dr. Elena Albarrán, mentioned a super sketchy movie called From Dusk Till Dawn. It’s available for digital download almost anywhere and is free with your Netflix subscription. Watch if you want better context for her comments.
Jill mentioned listening to a lecture series from The Great Courses by Dr. Ken Albala. That course was called Food: A Cultural Culinary History. Don’t be freaked out by the steep price tag! Many libraries offer it for FREE and you can even rent it digitally (try searching on the Libby App for it using your library card)! You can also get it for FREE from Apple Podcasts. If you’re an Audible.com user, you can use one of your credits to get it without paying an extra fee! (That’s how Jill listened to it. The one main advantage of using a credit on Audible for it was that it can automatically upload your notes to Goodreads and track your progress there—if you’re a Goodreads user, which Jill is.) If you see yourself downloading a lot of lectures in the future, you can also find it by subscribing to The Great Courses on Amazon Prime.
In 101B we mentioned this amazing interview with the great-granddaughter of Philo T. Farnsworth. You can watch it below!
We also mentioned that you can find Jill’s YouTube channel, Next Good Thing. You can find that here!
Our amazing Lucrezia Borgia expert, Dr. Fletcher, talked about the painting of the Roman Lucretia that was featured in the episode. It’s a sixteenth-century piece by Lucas Cranach the Younger, pictured below. Another reason they may have chosen it is because, although the comb is not featured in the painting, there’s clearly a great spot above her ear for the comb to be superimposed, and in fact, her fingers in the painting draw attention to that area, which is a great visual cue for TV viewers.
ABOVE: Cranach’s painting as reinterpreted for the show. His original piece is pictured on the right.
Similarly, our Houdini expert identified the painting Perseus turns Phineus and His Followers to Stone (17th century) by Luca Giordano, below. It’s flashing in the background of Professor Marzado’s office while he confronts Lorna Soliday. Though Miranda didn’t go into detail on the painting in the podcast, we’ve since realized that it’s a particularly relevant parallel because Medusa’s head is known for its snake hair, and Lucrezia’s comb would have been, well, in her hair. It’s a really interesting art choice that can’t have been an accident.
Were you fascinated by what our expert, Tobie James, had to say on Houdini? So were we! Here’s a whole website devoted to his fascinating life.
In the same conversation, Jill mentioned listening to a podcast called Stephen Fry’s Victorian Secrets. It’s only available on Audible and is a delight to listen to! It gives information on a lot of things that end up coming up in Podcast 13—in the pilot and beyond.
Have fun exploring these artifacts, Agents. Let us know what interests you the most!