Episode 16.5: British Technocratic Wet Dreams
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Are you prepared for a rambling, margarita-fuelled discussion of pamphlets, propaganda, British fascism, lightning bolts, and how to browbeat your beloved hosts into getting your very own episode? No? Then you should probably skip this one. But if you actually love all those things, plus gratuitous lightning sound effects*, then this minisode is for you!
- Please note: as lightning doesn’t actually make a sound, we used thunder instead. But it’s, like, symbolic, you know?
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| 0:00.0 | She's making me put this really phallic object right by my mouth and it's really |
| 0:04.8 | uncomfortable for me |
| 0:11.3 | I'm only on my first margarita. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello and I'm going to |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and welcome to |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to which please a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. I'm Hannah McGregor and I'm Andrea Hazenbank. and this week we're bringing you a very special mini soad inspired |
| 0:37.0 | and this week we're bringing you a very special mini-Soad inspired primarily by Andrea, aka |
| 0:45.9 | Proletarian Arts, belligerent tweets. |
| 0:48.7 | Back on May 17th when we posted episode 13b, that's the second part of our discussion of the seventh book, |
| 0:59.5 | Andrea responded to our discussion of the pamphlets and propaganda circulated by the Ministry of Magic. |
| 1:05.5 | She brought up anonymity, craft production versus modernity, and something called Mosley's |
| 1:10.8 | black shirts. I'm sitting down with her today to give her the chance to |
| 1:14.7 | school us all about print culture and propaganda and because she promised to make me margaritas, |
| 1:20.4 | which she did. Let's start by talking in general about the function of propaganda throughout the Harry Potter series. |
| 1:31.0 | We were chatting before this and you pointed out that this is a theme |
| 1:34.4 | that you see not just sort of suddenly emerging in the seventh book with Baltimore coming into |
| 1:39.3 | power but actually sort of building across the entire series. |
| 1:42.1 | Yeah, so it's more or less an issue where you kind of see different kinds of text |
| 1:46.7 | are being represented constantly. |
| 1:48.1 | You and Marcel and Neil have talked really |
| 1:55.0 | quite a lot about different kinds of reading, |
| 1:53.0 | different kinds of text, different kinds of printing, |
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