#shedunnit

[living400lbs]

Interesting that BritBox is sponsoribg podcasts. So far I've heard it on All About Agatha and now Shedunnit.

[demonahw]

The Shedunnit podcast is a joy anyway, but there is a (very) brief mention of Phryne Fisher on this one, which explores whether there were any real-life lady detectives in the 1920s and 1930s.

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (21-27 Apr 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 rounding third, sliding home. (througheden) - 68K, enjoyable steddie AU with pro baseball player Steven & massage therapist Eddie

🥰 Daddy Issues (His Boy Next Door #39) (RJ Moray) - reread; just a big fan of Jack & Channon & their ongoing story!

🥰 Common Ground (His Boy Next Door #40) (RJ Moray) - LOVE that Jack & Ewan are finding some common ground - really love that this series is showing how two people who don't particularly care for each other can work to find connection for the sake of the people they DO love

😍 ACT-verse series (ann_anotherthing) - truly outstanding series about middle-aged Steddie getting a 2nd chance romance after their first one flamed out 25 yrs earlier. Full series is 117K but it starts with A Certain Type (54K), which is a fully complete story with satisfying HEA - the rest are flashback fics or wonderfully indulgent epilogue/vignettes, full of fluffy and delicious porn. The author confesses to basically turning them into her middle-aged OCs but 1) I think her projections of their characters in middle-age with these particular life experiences seem reasonably plausible and more importantly 2) I don't fucking care because this story and these characters (main & supporting) are AMAZING.

💖💖 +227K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

When you stop being a ghost in a shell (Bittersweet_in_Boston) - MCU: Stucky, 12K - Hydra finds Steve in 1952 & then they have The Asset and The Captain. Except they really should have known better than to ever let them see one another.

Where the Sunflowers Grow (AidaRonan) - Stranger Things: Buckingham, 30K - incredible Chrissy recovery fic with bonus Buckingham. Just. So Fucking Good.

Early Returns (rageprufrock) - Inception: Arthur/Eames, 15K - fabulous AU where Arthur's an editor who has everything on lock, dammit & Eames is a reporter who wants to mess him up. Also the newsroom is nothing but a high-pressure high school when it comes to gossip.

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Murdoch Mysteries - s16, e14-20

Um, Actually - s9, e5; s1, e3, 4, 6-20

Game Changer - s6, e6

Smartypants - s1, e1

Ghosts (US) - s3, e9

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Untapped Rage" (s21, e16)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Honor the Cock" (s16, e16)

Dead Boy Detectives - s1, e1-3

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #13: Of the Gentle Sea

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep13 "Of the Gentle Sea"

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #14: There is an Ocean Vaster Than This One

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep14 "There is an Ocean Vaster Than This One"

99% Invisible - The Power Broker #04: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

What Next: TBD - The Internet Archive Endangered

⭐ The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tree Week: A Tasty Tale about Meyer Lemons

⭐ The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tree Week: Love Letters

The Sporkful - Priya Krishna Writes The Kids Cookbook She Wished She'd Had

The Allusionist - 193. Word Play 3: Lemon Demon

WikiHole - Cicadas…LIVE (with Matt Rogers, Carl Tart and Claudia O'Doherty)

In Defense of Fandom - Season 2 Episode 3: Fanfiction fixit data

Vibe Check - Her Mediocrity Cannot Touch Me

Code Switch - How Jewish Communities Are Divided Over Support of Israel

Short Wave - Beavers Can Help With Climate Change. So How Do We Get Along?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tree Week: Oh, the places you will go …. to see these notable trees

⭐ Decoder Ring - Making Real Music for a Fake Band

Ologies with Alie Ward - Columbidology (PIGEONS? YES) Part 2 with Rosemary Mosco

All Songs Considered - Cruel songs for the cruelest month

Pop Culture Happy Hour - What Makes A Good Sex Scene?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tree Week: Killer Trees with Mary Roach

Shedunnit - Agatha Christie's Many Houses

⭐ 99% Invisible #579 - Towers of Silence

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat: Sound and Music Talkback Extravaganza: The Sound and the Fury: Music is All Around Us Volume 1

Dear Prudence - My love language with friends is touch, but it makes my partner jealous. Help!

Worlds Beyond Number - Fireside Chat for Chapter 1 of The Wizard the Witch and the Wild One

⭐ Endless Thread - The Jackie Show

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for LEVELING UP (1 to 2)

Today, Explained - Honey, We Saved the Bees

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - Renée Elise Goldsberry

⭐ Hit Parade - The Bridge: What Made Them Beautiful

History Is Sexy - Episode #86 - Napoleon III

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

'80s Pop Party

Village People radio

[gingerbreadingwer]

@shark-myths I had to think of The House on Rosewood Lane listening to this

Caroline Crampton's podcast is wholly wonderful, there are also a few episodes about queer themes in detective stories.

I can also wholeheartedly recommend her former podcast srsly - that takes all things pop culture seriously, with her colleague then from the New Statesman, Anna Leszkiewicz.

[thoughtportal]

Bad hats, cat's pyjamas, banting, goops, creatures, and playing possum - what WERE people going on about during the Golden Age of detective fiction? Caroline Crampton of Shedunnit podcast and I get sleuthing into the slang of the mystery novels of the 1920s and 1930s.

[peternureyevplsdontbetraythecrew]

are you still doing podcast recs? I love shows like Pod Watcher (friends talking casually about random stuff they like), infinite monkey cage, shedunnit, and slightly foxed (nerdy but friendly science/lit themed)

first of, I had no idea the Watcher crew had a podcast ??? so thank you so much for the info

now, I don't listen to much non-fiction when it comes to podcasts but :

Distractible - 10/10 absolutely hilarious, very chill

Gaelic Song Stories - very interesting show, the guests always bring fascinating stories and I love the host dearly

I only listen to the Mountain Goats- even if you don't listen to the Mountain Goats at all, that's such a nice show I'm sure everyone can enjoy it

that wasn't much but there you go friend ♡

[libraryspectre]

Shedunnit is a wonderful little podcast about the golden age of detective fiction. I highly recommend it if you're at all a fan of cozy mysteries, even if you haven't read much of the genre - my only experience is a couple Agatha Christies and some BBC mystery shows. The host discusses a wide range of topics, including specific authors, widely used tropes, famous cases of the day and how they inspired mystery authors, and what sociopolitical issues shaped the genre.

It's smart, engaging, and oddly soothing and nostalgic. I can't recommend it enough!

[thatdesusa]

Pretty in pink... the lonely rose :3

[wimseypod]

Hello! I have just binge read all the Lord Peter Wimsey books in the space of a few weeks. Do you have any recommendations of similar style mysteries? I adore the style and characterisation of LPW and crave something similar. People have recced the continuation by Jill Paton Walsh but I am hesitant. Anyway, I would love any recommendations! Also I am very much enjoying this podcast!

Thank you so much for listening to the podcast! We’re so sorry to be tardy in responding (life has been...interesting! for everyone, and we’re no exception!). It’s so tricky to recommend things similar to Sayers, because the elements of the novels that draw people to Sayers can vary so much, and the things that make her so special to us are also fairly unique! (and we can’t comment on the JPW continuations, as neither of us as read them). 

If you specifically want mysteries, you might like to browse http://shedunnitshow.com/--the shownotes for each episode list all the books mentioned (and if you aren’t listening to the Shedunnit podcast about Golden Age Detective Fiction, check it out!)

HOWEVER! Since you mention specifically that you’re drawn to the style and characterization of Lord Peter, I (Charis) am going to make a personal recommendation that’s out of genre and period, but in keeping (at least for me!) in character, and suggest the Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whelan Turner ( @meganwhalenturner ). It’s YA fantasy, and if that’s not your usual cup of tea then PLEASE give at least the first to books a try anyway! They begin with The Thief, and continue in The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, Conspiracy of Kings, and Thick as Thieves. The final book, Return of the Thief, is on the horizon. 

Readers/Listeners, do you have any recommendations to add? Please comment with titles! 

[etherealellaelf]

Balekin being creepy and maybe I ship it?!(idk I’m sorry!)

So Balekin has always noticed Jude, when she first sparred with and beat Cardan at the sword fighting thingy and then later when Cardan became king, at the prison. He is angry with her. He suspects shedunnit. She got him thrown in jail. He gets that Ludo dude to slap her, which is a jerk move. After she gets kidnapped and taken to the Undersea, though, and she is “glamoured”, he starts allowing himself to come on to her. Which is super creepy? My sis in law thinks he wasn’t being amorous, but I disagree! When she is stroking his arms covered in thorns, and his hair is swirling in the water, and he tells her to kiss him, there is NO REASON for him to ask her this. He just wants her to. So she shivers but kisses him quickly. Then he says 

“KISS ME LIKE ONE OF YOUR FRENCH GIRLS, JACK” (kiss me as if I’m Cardan)

and I’m all, WHOA, back up, this guy knows she actually loves Cardan. He is glamouring her to treat him like her true love, to kiss him like her true love; this is a stalker-lover-who-knows-she-doesn’t-love-him-back-but-is-hypnotizing-her-to-kiss-him-like-she-does level of villainy. On the one hand he is acting realllllly creepy. On the other hand, it’s kinda hot. Hot in the Phantom of the Opera/Kylo Ren/ Loki fanfic kind of way. But it’s CANON. 

Then he instructs her that, once she leaves the undersea, to come to his house as soon as possible. Then, he stops himself, he must flutter a handkerchief in her path as a codeword to come over, me mum’s not home. And then he gives her some new pearl earrings or a necklace? I forget which? But it obviously freaks Jude out. Afterward she even hates looking at the ocean, the smell... and she is so broken mentally and physically that she is behaving as if she was glamoured; she can’t be glamoured, but maybe she was a little seduced. In fact, she immediately is makin her way downtown to Balekin’s house the moment she can LEAP OUT OF HER FREAKING WINDOW(I’m coming my loooooooove) at Madoc’s house to run over there in nothing but a nightdress and then Balekin is so gleefully evil and like, “Could you be a dear and kill Cardan for me, my creature?” And she’s like, “Of course. If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.” and then I think they kiss again? Also, Jude may say that people look at her with disgust, but it’s all in her head; she imagines a lot, like how Cardan’s smile is always so “cruel” when he’s just smiling cuz he’s an awkward doof.

Also I was shipping this creepy couple right up until Balekin’s like “Twas the girl! She poisoned him!” And Jude’s like “u wot m8″ and Cardan’s like “Don’t order her around, that’s my job” and Jude’s like “darn tootin’!” 

...but with all this in mind, supposing Jude was feeling like he was seducing her and she had to pretend to go along with it, since she didn’t really consent, it’s all very rapey and that’s probably why she actually killed Balekin. If she’s disgusted by the smell of the sea, it probably reminds her of his lips, and that would make me shiver, too. I’m just not sure if I like it or not. I think I do. Help.

(I mean I know cardan is the better guy in this situation also balekin is like so much older than Jude but dang those kisses were pretty cute)

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (7-13 Apr 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 If This Is As Far As We Go (BeauRadley) - 124K, stucky no-powers AU - after a year of being phenomenal hookup buddies, bucky ends their arrangement & throws steve into a tailspin - slow burn, angsty, oblivious steve slowly realizing his true feelings, good supporting cast

😊 Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid (Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert) - cute graphic novel about art students forming a softball team to exploit a financial aid loophole

😍 Death in the Spires (KJ Charles, author; Tom Lawrence, narrator) - historical murder mystery set in 1905 Oxford - another KJC absolute banger: incredible sense of place, fantastic characters, perfectly done 'whodunnit' tension and a HIGHLY SATISFACTORY resolution. Loved every word

💖💖 +76K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

The Man, the Myth, the Legend (sparklyslug) - Check Please!: gen, 2.9K - Holster's beatboxing skills brings all the a capella groups to the Haus - a short, fun, funny, outsider POV fic

Say it louder for the people in the back (redhook) - MCU: shrinkyclinks, 14K - reread, forever fave - sometimes you just get a yearning to reread the best glory hole fic ever written

In Focus (sparklyslug) - Check Please!: zimbits, 6K - Jack's photography eye knows what's up before his conscious brain does

Entering Orbit (museaway) - Star Trek AOS: spirk, 30K - good post-AOS canon-divergent fic where Jim goes home to Iowa to escape the press & Spock joins him

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Hot Ones - Conan O'Brien

QI - series S, ep 13

Game Changer - s6, e5 {Bingoception}

Um, Actually - s9, e4

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Dawn of Justice" (s21, e14)

D20: Adventuring Party - "We're Running on 200%" (s16, e14)

Death In Paradise - s11, e4-8; s12 e0-8, s13 e0-8

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Working - How to Be Both a Critic and a Creator

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #10: Of the Reaching Green

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep10 "Of the Reaching Green"

Short Wave - How Climate Change And Physics Affect Baseball

Consider This from NPR - Bad Omens Or The Cycle of Nature? How The Ancient World Viewed Eclipses

⭐ Armchair Expert - Anna Kendrick [Rerelease from 1/9/23]

Today, Explained - Is college still worth it?

The Sporkful - Jewish Food Is More Than Matzoh Balls

WikiHole - BEYONCÉ (with Zoë Chao, Nat Faxon and Poppy Liu)

⭐ All Songs Considered - Songs to make you laugh, with 'Weird Al' Yankovic

In Defense of Fandom - Season 2 Episode 2: Putting my theory to the test

Dinner’s on Me - Orville Peck

⭐ Switched on Pop - Chasing old sounds: Djo's "End of Beginning" with Joe Keery

⭐ 99% Invisible #577 - The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons

⭐ Vibe Check - A Special Conversation with Ada Limón

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Brown Mountain Lights

Short Wave - The Order Your Siblings Were Born in May Play a Role in Identity and Sexuality

⭐ Code Switch - How Frederick Douglass launched generations of Black and Irish solidarity

⭐ Decoder Ring - Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?

⭐ Imaginary Worlds - African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #11: Promises Promises

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep11 "Promises Promises"

What Next: TBD - Does Google Suck Now?

Short Wave - What To Know About The New EPA Rule Limiting 'Forever Chemicals' In Tap Water

Code Switch - Reflecting on the legacy of O.J. Simpson

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Atlas Obscura Live: Two Places And A Lie

Dear Prudence - I Lost a Lot of Weight and Now I Enjoy Being a Mean Girl. Help!

It's Been a Minute - The car culture wars; plus, the problem with child stars

Endless Thread - RIP Lil Miquela

Shedunnit - You Probably Imagined It!

Armchair Expert - John Cena

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - [One Shot] A County Affair: Prologue

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Presenting Bonnie Raitt

Lowrider Oldies

Huge House Anthems

Djo

Classic Soul BBQ

A LA SALA [Khruangbin] {2024}

Presenting Khruangbin

Happy Beats

'80s One-Hit Wonders

Feel-Good Classic Rock

[teampoduk]

The PodUK 2020 schedule is OUT!  

Featuring the likes of:

@kingfallsam | @ameliapodcast | @zombie-podcast | @themagnusarchives | Flintlocks & Fireballs | Escape Artists | Shedunnit | Words to that Effect | People’s Polygraph | What Am I Rolling | No More Damsels | NoSleep | Calling Darkness | Shadows at the Door 

and even more.  

Check out information about PodUK HERE

[thoughtportal]

After the First World War, there was a great flowering of female independence as more women chose to live single lives. This change, and the backlash to it, is all there to be found in the murder mysteries of the period, if you just dig a little below the surface. From self-contained, professional women like Mary Whittaker in Dorothy L Sayers’ Unnatural Death to dear, fluffy Miss Marple, there are a multitude of single women’s lives to discover. But let’s go back to the beginning. This particular story starts with the surplus women.

Find more information about this episode and links to the books discussed at shedunnitshow.com/surpluswomen. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that in your app of choice.

Contributors: —Rosemary Cresswell, senior lecturer in global history at the University of Hull. Follow her on Twitter @RosieCresswell. —Camilla Nelson, associate professor of writing at the University of Notre Dame Australia. —Helen Parkinson

Further reading: —A field guide to spinsters in English fiction —‘Surplus women’: a legacy of World War One? —Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson. —The Shadow of Marriage by Katherine Holden —Unnatural Death by Dorothy L Sayers

You can find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/surpluswomentranscript.

[sablefilms]

#Oscars_SF

[manycoloureddays]

goblin, king

i’ve answered king.

goblin - what makes you happy?

Hugs. Snuggles with dogs and cats. Spending time with my dog, Elvis. When Elvis puts his paw on my knee or nudges me with his nose to get a pat. Walks. Walks with company. Walks alone. Along the stretch of creek about twenty minutes from my house with the large gums and the bubbling water over stones and the swing bridge and market garden in the sun on a not too hot morning. Reading. Reading cosy books. Reading good books or fic with a fresh mug of tea and maybe some buttered toast. In fact, stories make me happy. Stories and storytelling in all its forms. Stephen Michael King and Alison Lester picture books. The Shedunnit podcast. Curated playlists. Live theatre. Shared jokes. Shared food. Cooking. Cooking for friends and family, especially when it turns out perfectly and everyone is having a good time. Getting lunch out with friends. Getting cocktails with friends on the rare occasion I can afford them. Boardgame nights. Summer fruit. Holidays by the beach. Holding hands. Walks along the beach, whatever the weather. Rock pooling. Exploring. Cosy fireside drinks in pubs after walking along the beach in the middle of winter. Wildflowers. Spring. 

But mostly hugs!

[libraryspectre]

Bookish Podcasts

I'm such a nerd that I listen to podcasts about books, so here are some of my favorites

1. Overdue - hosts Craig and Andrew take turns reading books "you probably should have read by now" and discuss. Their reading list includes both classics and buzzy books! It's great for learning about a book you don't actually want to read, or for having deeper discussion on a book you have read. Plus they've been doing the show for like 10 years so there's tons of episodes.

2. Shedunnit - host Caroline Crampton digs into the Golden Age of Detective Fiction to discuss topics such as popular tropes, real cases that inspired writers of the time, author profiles, and social issues of the day reflected in the literature. I have read almost no books from this era, and it's still super interesting.

3. Reading Glasses - a reading podcast that doesn't talk about specific books, but about reading culture in general. Hosts Mallory and Brea take on reading problems like, how do you trim down your TBR? how do you read diversely? what is the best reading snack? They genuinely have great advice!

4. Potterless/The Newest Olympian - two separate podcasts by Mike Schubert with the same basic premise. Mike managed to reach the age of 24 without having read a Harry Potter book, so he began Potterless, a kind of chapter-by-chapter book club of the series. Now that he's finished Harry Potter, he's moved on to the Percy Jackson series with the same goal. Mike is really funny and also fair - he understands these are children's books he's reading, but still recognizes their value and has great discussions with various guests. (He also is not afraid to call out JKR on her bs and acknowledge how it influenced her writing).

5. Books in the Freezer - NOTHING adds books to my TBR like this podcast. Each episode focuses on a different sub-category of horror, like folk horror or horror by women or slasher horror. After a discussion on the topic, host Stephanie and her guest pick a few books on the topic to recommend. She's had some really great horror authors on as guests, including Grady Hendrix, Stephen Graham Jones, Courtney Summers, and more.