Well this might be a bit above our pay grade, but as fate would have it, this week Kim and Alice are covering the animated classic, Persepolis. It’s as much a coming of age tale as it is a unique look into life during the Iranian revolution, and a truly gorgeous and heartbreaking film.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

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Hope you all sent your Victorian Valentines because we’re back with a new season, and this week Kim and Alice review proposal-a-thon, Far from the Madding Crowd. It’s every girl’s dream (cucumbers and a piano) mixed with every girl’s nightmare (swordplay cringe) and a great reason to talk about sheep baths.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

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Happy 12th of January everyone! As a (sort of) Christmas treat, Kim and Alice are re-visiting Christmas at Downton Abbey. We cover snow proposals, murder trials, and a Ouija board channelling beautiful messages that will be roundly ignored. All this and exactly one Christmas tree!

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

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Kim and Alice's hot take on Guillermo del Toro's 2025 adaptation of Frankenstein

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We’re off to Hollywood Japan this week as Kim and Alice re-discover the 2005 hit movie, Memoirs of a Geisha. We reveal the real-life betrayal at the heart of the story, examine the insidious mix of fact with Western fantasy and clarify that you really can just leave the kimono factory if you want to.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

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It's bring your husband to work day, and while Kim's away Alice is joined by FtSS's own sound engineer Keith Nagle. We're talking found family (seals), thatched cottage interior design masters (junior edition), and why everyone in Ireland is sleeping on this delightful and charming film.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

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There are many questions and MANY SPOILERS this week as Kim and Alice puzzle their way through ‘90s drama, M Butterfly. We’re probing some intimate international relations and discovering there’s nowhere to run inside a van.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

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We’re getting Spookstorical this week as Kim and Alice assemble a murderous flashmob for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s the classic tale of the world’s least curious scientist, his sibling marriage and the frogs / friends reanimated along the way.

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