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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: No rest for the Wicca: How ‘folk horror’ explains our politics
Description: Creaky pub signs, animal skulls, and empty church yards. The British countryside can be a scary place, but what does the popularity of ‘folk horror’ tell us about our politics? Writer Jude Rogers is joined by John Doran, co-founder of music website The Quietus and presenter of BBC Radio 4 New Weird Britain series, to explore the effects of films like The Wicker Man on our national psyche and what the continued appetite for eerie renderings of the countryside says about us.
“Folk horror creates an uneasy clash between the modern and the ancient.”
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