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• 00:00:00

  Well, maybe we can cut it off and we can do like a bonus. What did you want to say about Children of the Stones? No, the bit where I really wanted to join the conversation was there was a certain point where Sean was like, why are there so many time travel fictions in British 70s TV and film? And I think that's really…

• 00:03:13

  And it's also like Doctor Who as well, right? Doctor Who, Doctor Who's always in quarries or like in kind of bleak countryside locations. Does this, it's actually goes back to the, this whole post of Mark's that I was reading where, it was like just when the whole hauntology thing was really kicking off like early…

• 00:05:50

  But you know what? In a sense, it's the opposite. It's like, it's the, it's not the same thing. It's the opposite because, you know, Ballard's whole, what all of his work is really marked by his childhood experience, right? Of being in this camp during the war and his experience, which he always describes as like…

• 00:08:41

  There's not like loads of weird time travel stuff in American TV at the time, I don't think, or anywhere else. So maybe it's connected to the fact that like the recent past is no longer legible because you don't have these co-ordinators, right? I don't think, I don't think, I don't think it's connected…

• 00:11:47

  That's all we need to talk about. Um, and I think that's an, and again, that's why there was for all of it. And I think there's a lot, so there's a lot to, um, rightly make fun of with the hook hook for a folk horror revival was a lot, that one ought to rightly to make fun of with that. But at the same time, it feels…

• 00:14:36

  Um, I think it's something that Deluz says about children where he, um, there's a great collection. I think it's part of that like Routledge's like Deluz and series of books they have. And there's a recent one called Deluz and Children. Um, you've read about children a lot, but, um, there's this line…

• 00:17:17

  That's also like an unofficial soundtrack for that. Um, Carl Douglas did, um, guy who's most famous for doing a Kung Fu fighter. Um, and it's like, uh, it's, it's an amazing track, but it's like imagining which find a general that's kind of, I guess now sort of post Sylvia Federici is you see that as of this…

• 00:20:03

  But yeah, they, they're really fantastic works. Thanks for watching!