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Realms Unknown

Fantasy, Sci Fi and speculative fiction, observed through the comedic lens of The Bugle. Become a Bugle subscriber to enjoy this show ad free and help us thrive. Expect reviews and supernova level hot takes on literature, gaming, films, TV, board games, and anywhere else you can experience space ships, clones and beautiful elves with massive weapons. A podcast from The Bugle. Hosted by Alice Fraser and friends. Also available as a video podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    Competence // Star Trek // Outlander

    Joining Alice Fraser this week is the satisfyingly and unrelentingly competent Tom Neenan! (The Mash Report, The Hauntening) 📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown NEWS TV Severance TV Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning FILM The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King FILM Dune TV Twisted Metal FILM The Creator TV Outlander: Blood of My Blood WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN? Star Trek: Strange New Worlds TV Only Murders In The Building The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie TROPE ON A ROPE Something has happened here… Straight to camera blogging as disasters unfold SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - competence The Martian - Andy Weir FILM The Martian FILM All Is Lost FILM Die Hard FILM The Mechanic The Expanse series - James S. A. Corey TV The Expanse FILMS The Bourne franchise Discworld series - Terry Pratchett FILM Snatch TV Doctor Who - Midnight episode TV Columbo TV Poirot TV Jonathan Creek Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch MINES OF EURGH FILM Ready Player One Cautionary Tales for Children - Hilaire Belloc 📯 Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcast 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate 📚 Help your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate store https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown 🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment! 🦋 Follow us on Bluesky! Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan. 📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    40 min
  2. 19 AUG

    Bodies // Summer of Horror // Befuzzled kings

    Joining Alice Fraser this week is the mighty Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening). The subgenre deep dive this week looks at bodies / good use of embodiment - such as body swapping in Altered Carbon or Cronenbergian body horror. Tom espouses that 2025 has seen the greatest summer for cinematic horror in recent memory, discusses the trope of befuzzled kings leaving a trail of chaos in their wake, and feels a bit eurrgh about campery being shorthand for villainy. 📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown NEWS FILM Red Sonja WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN? FILM 28 Years Later FILM Bring Her Back FILM Weapons FILM Together Swordheart - T Kingfisher TROPE ON A ROPE Befuzzled kings and the chaos they leave in their wake Looking in the mirror, pulling at something and creating a Cronenbergian horror SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - bodies FILM Looper FILM Together TV Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy TV Doctor Who - Into The Dalek FILM Tusk PODCAST Smodcast Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis Ghost In The Shell Dune - Frank Herbert TV Alien: Earth FILM Ex Machina MINES OF EURRGH Campery to mean villainy FILM Jupiter Ascending TV Twilight FILM The Little Mermaid FILM The Lion King FILM Robin Hood FILM The Fifth Element 📯 Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcast 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate 📚 Help your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate store https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown 🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment! 🦋 Follow us on Bluesky! Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan. 📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    39 min
  3. 12 AUG

    Interesting POVs // Romance // Dave Bautista

    Alice Fraser is joined this week by Jen Prokop from the Fated Mates romance podcast, so expect a lot of romance recommendations and tropes! The subgenre deep dive looks into interesting uses of POV, and Jen is uncomfortable with the increasing use of violence in romance books but enjoyed the romance elements in recent films Superman and Sinners. 📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown NEWS Who Is Elara Voss? FILM Highlander TV Outlander Epic Games secures legal win against Google WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN? Superman Sinners TROPE ON A ROPE Jack Reacher series - Lee Child The Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - single POV The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemison Not Your Sidekick - C.B. Lee Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie The Baby Dragon Cafe - A.T. Qureshi The Baby Dragon Bakery - A.T. Qureshi Piranesi - Susanna Clarke MINES OF EURRGH Girls and their dragons Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros Jack West Jr series - Matthew Reilly American Gods - Neil Gaiman 📯 Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcast 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate 📚 Help your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate store https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown 🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment! 🦋 Follow us on Bluesky! Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Jen Prokop. 📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    33 min
  4. 5 AUG

    Time loops // Bring Her Back // Time loops

    Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan are your guides for this week as they traverse through manner of sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, tropes and news! They discuss time loops in sci-fi, the tropes of hypersexualised futures and post-coital never-nudes, and whether prison 'relationships' belong in the mines of urrggh! 📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown NEWS FILM Attack of the 50 Foot Woman FILM Spider-Man: Brand New Day WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING? FILM Sinners FILM Bring Her Back TROPE ON A ROPE Hypersexualised futures FILM Blade Runner 2045 FILM Showgirls FILM Starship Troopers FILM The Fifth Element Never nudes in sexy scenes FILM Sex and the City SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - time loops FILM Groundhog Day Strange Life of Ivan Osokin - P. D. Ouspensky TV The Twilight Zone ‘Shadow Play’ FILM Edge of Tomorrow TV Russian Doll FILM Happy Death Day FILM Happy Death Day 2 U TV Doctor Who - Eve of the Daleks FILM Source Code FILM Twelve Monkeys FILM Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines The Dark Tower - Stephen King PLAY Ghost Stories FILM Triangle TV Doctor Who - Heaven Sent TV Dark MINES OF URRGH Bourne series - Robert Ludlum 📯 Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcast 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate 📚 Help your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate store https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown 🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment! 🦋 Follow us on Bluesky! Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan. 📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan are your guides for this week as they traverse through manner of sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, tropes and news! 🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    37 min
  5. 29 JUL

    Arthurian legends // Perfume // The Dark is Rising

    Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton are your guides for this week as they traverse through manner of fantasy recommendations, tropes and news! They discuss Arthurian legend in fantasy (and some sci-fi), David Bowie's tights in Labyrinth, and audible sharpness (*insert your own sword noise here!*) 📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown NEWS FILM The Odyssey TV Star Trek: Starfleet Academy WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING? Perfume - Patrick Süskind The Emperor’s Blades - Brian Staveley The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam - Megan Bannen TROPE ON A ROPE - audible sharpness FILM Robin Hood SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Arthurian legends The Once and Future King - T.H. White FILM The Sword and the Stone FILM Star Wars FILM Harry Potter TV Merlin (Sam Neill) FILM Monty Python and the Holy Grail PODCAST Camlann TV The Rottentrolls TV Sir Gadabout - The Worst Knight in the Land FILM The Green Knight The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper POEM The Dragons of Dinas Emrys - Pendaran TV Merlin (BBC) COMIC Camelot 3000 MINES OF URRGH FILM Labyrinth Avalon series - Marion Zimmer Bradley 📯 Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcast 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate 📚 Help your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate store https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown 🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment! 🦋 Follow us on Bluesky! Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton. 📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com 🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    36 min
  6. 29 JUL • TEAM BUGLER ONLY

    Arthurian legends // Perfume // The Dark is Rising

    Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton are your guides for this week as they traverse through manner of fantasy recommendations, tropes and news! They discuss Arthurian legend in fantasy (and some sci-fi), David Bowie's tights in Labyrinth, and audible sharpness (*insert your own sword noise here!*) 📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown NEWS FILM The Odyssey TV Star Trek: Starfleet Academy WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING? Perfume - Patrick Süskind The Emperor’s Blades - Brian Staveley The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam - Megan Bannen TROPE ON A ROPE - audible sharpness FILM Robin Hood SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Arthurian legends The Once and Future King - T.H. White FILM The Sword and the Stone FILM Star Wars FILM Harry Potter TV Merlin (Sam Neill) FILM Monty Python and the Holy Grail PODCAST Camlann TV The Rottentrolls TV Sir Gadabout - The Worst Knight in the Land FILM The Green Knight The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper POEM The Dragons of Dinas Emrys - Pendaran TV Merlin (BBC) COMIC Camelot 3000 MINES OF URRGH FILM Labyrinth Avalon series - Marion Zimmer Bradley 📯 Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcast 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate 📚 Help your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate store https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown 🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment! 🦋 Follow us on Bluesky! Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton. 📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com 🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more!

    36 min

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Fantasy, Sci Fi and speculative fiction, observed through the comedic lens of The Bugle. Become a Bugle subscriber to enjoy this show ad free and help us thrive. Expect reviews and supernova level hot takes on literature, gaming, films, TV, board games, and anywhere else you can experience space ships, clones and beautiful elves with massive weapons. A podcast from The Bugle. Hosted by Alice Fraser and friends. Also available as a video podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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