Sinking Your Teeth Into Vampires
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Is soap opera the heir to the gothic novel? Is America seeing a resurgence of gothic TV and fiction? Shahidha Bari looks at new Gothic research with Nick Groom and Xavier Aldana Reyes. Vampires weren’t invented by horror writers, but were first encountered by doctors, priests and bureaucrats working in central Europe in the mid 17th century - that's the argument of The Vampire: A New History written by "the Goth Prof" Nick Groom from Exeter University. Xavier Aldana Reyes researches at the Gothic Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University and has written Spanish Gothic and Horror Film and Affect. We also hear about the TV research of Helen Wheatley from the University of Warwick
This podcast is made with the assistance of the AHRC - the Arts and Humanities Research Council which funds research at universities and museums, galleries and archives across the UK into the arts and humanities and works in partnership with BBC Radio 3 on the New Generation Thinkers scheme to make academic research available to a wider audience.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? |
| 0:23.3 | It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's |
| 0:27.5 | out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.8 | Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.1 | Hello, thanks for downloading this episode of BBC Radio 3's Arts and Ideas podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | Hang on a minute while I take out my fangs. That's better. Yes, in this program we're talking about vampires |
| 0:45.1 | and the newest academic research into the Gothic, that is, the literature and art of the uncanny, |
| 0:50.9 | the strange, the downright unsettling, which emerges in the 18th century, |
| 0:55.8 | or does it? |
| 0:56.9 | We'll be finding out about the long history of the Gothic and the political, social and cultural |
| 1:02.2 | context it illuminates. |
| 1:04.1 | To guide us, we're joined by the living dead, otherwise known as academics. |
| 1:07.7 | Nick Groom from Exeter, the Proff of Goth. |
| 1:10.1 | He's written the introduction to the latest |
| 1:11.6 | edition of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein and down the line, Xavier Aldana Reyes from |
| 1:16.7 | Manchester Metropolitan University Centre for Gothic Studies. Welcome, guys. I can't tell you how |
| 1:22.5 | excited I am to talk to you about the Gothic and I bought props. So I bought chocolate eyeballs |
| 1:28.1 | which sadly Xavier you won't be able to get |
| 1:31.2 | but I'm going to chuck on at you Nick, can you catch it? |
| 1:34.2 | Oh well caught. |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.7 | So if you hear some rustling it's because we're stuffing our faces |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.