
Temples Made With Hands
A simple concept herein contained: pitting a story I loved against one I hated, and stacking the deck so the one I love wins. Said stories come from page and screen in an eclectic selection of my preferred genres – anything except 'content creation', because this house is a place of honour, dammit. 100% subjectivity guaranteed. All opinions entirely the product of my over-heated brain; there is, sadly, no one else to blame. Oh, and there won't be any tips on how to DIY a church. Sorry. Email: tmwh.podcast@gmail.com
Podcasting since 2022 • 10 episodes
Temples Made With Hands
Latest Episodes
010: The Nun Trifecta (Black Narcissus 1939, 1947, 2020)
In this episode I compare the book Black Narcissus, by podcast fave Rumer Godden, and its two screen adaptations from 1947 and 2020. Their chronological order correlates exactly with the order of my esteem, which is pretty ha...
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Episode 10
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57:17

009: Station Eleven (2014) versus Farenheit 451 (1953)
In this episode I compare the books Station Eleven, by Emily St John Mandel, and Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. I deplore Bradbury's grimdark death of hope and laud St John Mandel's paradoxically inspiring hope after death (...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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48:52

008: Ever After (1998) versus Cinderella (2015)
In this episode I compare the fairytale retellings of Cinderella in 1998’s Ever After and the imaginatively-named Cinderella of 2015. I ponder how a film as rife with historical inaccuracy as Ever After still gets cro...
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Episode 8
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51:07

007: Circle of Friends (1990) versus Normal People (2018)
In this episode I compare the college romances of the dreamy Circle of Friends, by Maeve Binchy, and the nihilistic nightmare Normal People, by Sally Rooney. What proves to be most galling is not, as I thought, that Rooney is ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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59:00

006: The Death of Stalin (2017) versus Jojo Rabbit (2019)
In this episode I compare the historical satires The Death of Stalin, which is one of my favourite films, and Jojo Rabbit, which isn’t even my favourite film by Taika Waititi. I indulge in several digressions to show off the b...
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Episode 6
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