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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Even the most unserious, dumb, silly movies can have fascinating stories behind their creation. Case in point, Scary Movie...

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Episode 360 - SHAUN OF THE DEAD is now available for $5/£4+ Patrons on their exclusive RSS feed at verbaldiorama.com/patreon. It'll be available for everyone on Thursday 8th October. You've got red on you.

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I'm perfectly alright, Barbara. I ran it under a cold tap."

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My plan was to announce this, and link to tickets. Tickets were available at 10am this morning. Tickets are now sold out! 👀 But... your girl is going to be live at the London Film Festival with the incredible @90minfilmfest.bsky.social and @flixwatcher.bsky.social I am beyond excited!!

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 359 - SCARY MOVIE (2000) WAAAASSSSSUUUUUUPPPPPP! I'm in your podcast app. Do you know where I am? I could be anywhere. I'm like the wind baby. Oh, just click the Verbal Diorama icon and the episode is at the top. 😱 Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎧 Happy International Podcast Day! 🎉 Which indie podcasts deserve more love? Tag them below and let's amplify some incredible independent voices today! 👇

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tomorrow, 6am GMT... Episode 359... The history and legacy of... Scary Movie (2000)

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Verbal Diorama is a small podcast, but don't let that fool you... It's #InternationalPodcastDay soon. Support your small, mighty independent podcasts. The Force is strong with us. 💪

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WAAAASSSSSUUUUUUPPPPPP! Episode 359 - SCARY MOVIE (2000) is now available for $5/£4+ Patrons on their exclusive RSS feed at verbaldiorama.com/patreon. It'll be available for everyone on Thursday 1st October.

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Let me just say that the killing of these teens has been tragic, but, uh... hey, you know, shit happens."

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 358 - STAR WARS: EPISODE V - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK The Empire Strikes Back is often called the best film in the Star Wars saga, and it started with a decision that seems almost unthinkable in retrospect. Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Don't be sad. Just wait and see what October is giving...

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tomorrow, 6am GMT... Episode 358... The history and legacy of... Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's always annoying when your new bride turns out to be a fembot... but how did Austin miss the machine gun jubblies? I recommend fore-playing this episode to learn the history and legacy of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me! 😉

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Whoop-de-do! What does it all mean, Basil? It means you can listen to the history and legacy of everyone's favourite gentleman Spy, Austin Powers, on Verbal Diorama! Groovy, baby!

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 357 - AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME A podcast on the history and legacy of The Spy Who Shagged Me? Oh, behave! As for the time travel, I suggest you don't worry about that sort of thing and just enjoy yourself. Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tomorrow, 6am GMT... Episode 357... The history and legacy of... Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What would you do with a future Grays Sports Almanac?

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Episode 357 - AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME is now available for $5/£4+ Patrons on their exclusive RSS feed at verbaldiorama.com/patreon. It'll be available for everyone on Thursday 17th September. It puts the grrr in "indie from history podcast hosted a girl", baby. Yeah! ♂️

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ok, so you had to wait a while for Part II. Over 100 episodes. 😬 It's worth the wait, though. Clever people will have hopped in a Delorean and gone back to the future to listen, anyway. More sequels to existing episodes to come this month! Sequeltember is back, baby!!

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"You're quasi-evil. You're semi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough."

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 356 - BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II Back to the Future was never originally intended to be anything other than a one and done story, but its huge success meant a sequel was all but guaranteed. Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tomorrow, 6am GMT... Episode 356... The history and legacy of... BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No one likes listening to ads during a podcast, but unfortunately they're necessary for many shows to keep the bills paid. Verbal Diorama has been proudly ad-free for seven years. There's never any guarantee it'll stay that way, but at the moment Patreon support helps verbaldiorama.com/patreon

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Verbal Diorama is back in your ears on Thursday, and I'm back working after a week's break. It's good to be back! Back to where, though? 😉

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚨 FROM THE ARCHIVE 🚨 BACK TO THE FUTURE Back in the days when Ronald Reagan, the actor! was president and you needed a nuclear reaction to generation 1.21 jigowatts of electricity, a young man called Calvin Klein changed the course of his own personal history. Available in your podcast app 📱🎧

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Podcasting is hard. Solo podcasting is harder. Solo podcasting about the history and legacy of movies you know, and movies you know...? You get the gist. I'm taking a break this week, but like all good sequels, this podcast is To Be Continued... 😜

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🎁 EM'S BIRTHDAY EPISODE🎉 Episode 355 - CHICAGO By the time Miramax greenlit a film version of Chicago, the movie musical had been functionally extinct as a mainstream genre for years, and all Chicago has to do was give Hollywood the old razzle dazzle... Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Tomorrow, 6am GMT... Episode 355... The history and legacy of... CHICAGO

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There's so much to talk about in Tropic Thunder... but what about the EXPLOSIONS! 💥

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let's talk about five-time Academy Award-winning method actor Kirk Lazarus. To me, his role as Father O'Malley was his best performance by far. Was Satan's Alley robbed at the Oscars?

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You have plenty of time to rouge your knees and roll your stockings down... and all that jazz.... for the history and legacy of Chicago! Coming in ten days!

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Chicago's own killer dillers, those scintillating sinners"

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 354 - TROPIC THUNDER In 2008, Ben Stiller made a war movie about people making a war movie, and in doing so, made one of the more prescient satires of 21st-century Hollywood egos. It was also not without its controversies. Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's only taken 353 episodes to feature a Quentin Tarantino movie on this podcast...! Which one should I do next? 🤔

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tomorrow, 6am GMT... Episode 354... The history and legacy of... TROPIC THUNDER

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Verbal Diorama podcasting guarantee: ✅ No uncomfortable silences ✅ No bullsh*t ✅ No swears (yes, even an episode on Pulp Fiction is family friendly!)

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Episode 354 - TROPIC THUNDER is now available for $5/£4+ Patrons on their exclusive RSS feed at verbaldiorama.com/patreon. It'll be available for everyone on Thursday 20th August. I don't read the script. The script reads me.

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Man, I don't drop character 'till I done the DVD commentary."

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 353 - PULP FICTION Pulp Fiction has become iconic, influential and immortalized. It showed us the brutality of life, in a way that was somehow palatable to the masses, and became the template for a new generation of indie imitators. Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's only taken 352 episodes to feature a Stephen King adaptation on this podcast... maybe I'll do an actual horror one next! 😅

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tomorrow, 6am GMT... Episode 353... The history and legacy of... PULP FICTION

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The Shawshank tree may no longer be with us, but hope springs eternal...

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Episode 353 - PULP FICTION is now available for $5/£4+ Patrons on their exclusive RSS feed at verbaldiorama.com/patreon. It'll be available for everyone on Thursday 13th August. It's the path of the righteous film history podcast.

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 352 - THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION A movie that was destined to be a huge success, disappeared uneventfully from cinema screens, and usually that's the end of the story. But destiny had its own plans for The Shawshank Redemption... Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'll be going to the London Podcast Festival on Saturday 5th September to watch some brilliant live podcasts! Why not check out the lineup, and if you're planning to go, let me know!

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