10: Season Finale: Side Characters

10: Season Finale: Side Characters

For the season finale of Out-of-Print, our three hosts take on the nitty gritty topic of Side Characters, delving into their importance in a literary, cultural, and real-world sense. This extra-special episode covers Jane Eyre, main character syndrome, Troy McClure from The Simpsons, Noo-Noo, Alice's nickname at her local chicken shop, literary theory, some seriously questionable one-night stands, Edna Mode, open source investigation, Nietzsche, sauna juicing, flat vs round, shagging on the rugby field, and some very special listener submissions sent in from Glasgow, Scotland to Christchurch, New Zealand. This episode is a mixture of studio recording and live extracts from the season finale, recorded as part of the Roundhouse Three Sixty Festival 2026. Key texts referenced: - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë - The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra Gilbert + Susan Gubar - The One vs the Many, Alex Woolch - Main Character Syndrome, Anna Gotlib - A Fish Called Selma, Season 7, The Simpsons Further reading: - The Supporting Cast, David Galef -  Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster Co-hosted and produced by Alice Garnett, Emmeline Armitage and Sophie Parke. Powered by Transmission Roundhouse.

9: A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed

This week, Alice – our self-confessed “gross girl”– takes the mic to discuss hangover cures, 18th century anti-blazon poetry, and the politics of being a party girl in 2026. Key texts referenced: - A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed, Jonathan Swift - Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva Further Reading: - Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 - Astrophil and Stella, Sir Philip Sidney

8: An Ode to the Em Dash

By name and by nature, our very own 'Em' takes us through her love of whimsical grammar, and laments that the rise in generative AI has taken the not-so-humble 'em dash' from being an Emily Dickinson moment of pause to a sure sign your CV was written by CHATgpt... Key texts:  Emily Dickinson 'I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain'  Emily Dickinson 'I Started Early – Took my Dog'  Further Reading: Goblinhood by Jen Calleja 'Deus in machina: Swiss church installs AI Jesus', The Guardian

7: The One Where Sophie Tells Her Favourite Joke

Sophie is hosting this week and has managed to shoehorn an entire episode around a terrible joke she likes. This episode covers the powerful link between modern meme culture + Dadaism, online collectivism, what happens when community art lands in the hands of the powerful, and our three co-hosts living on very different parts of the internet. Key texts referenced: * ‘Dada Manifesto 1918’, Tristan Tzara * Extract on Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, The Tate Modern  Further reading: * ‘Playing to the Gallery’, Grayson Perry * ‘A woman in the men’s room: when will the art world recognise the real artist behind Duchamp’s Fountain?’, Siri Hustvedt, The Guardian * ‘The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination’, Paul K. Saint-Amour * ‘A PARODY CRYPTOCURRENCY BASED ON A DOG MEME IS NOW WORTH MORE THAN $1 BILLION’, BESS LEVIN

6: Rosemary's Babygirl

Is he actually a feminist, or is he putting it on? What does it really mean when a straight man wears a crop top? Do tote bags indicate malicious intent? This week’s host, Alice, takes to the mic to explore the babygirlification of the straight man and the evolution of masculine archetypes from the ‘softboi’ of the 2010s to the performative male of the 2020s.  Key texts referenced: - Rosemary’s Baby, Ira Levin - ‘Your Straight Boyfriend Isn’t Gay [https://transtrender.substack.com/p/kill-the-straggots]’ from Transtender, Chrissy Further reading: - Gender Trouble, Judith Butler - The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin Co-hosted and produced by Alice Garnett, Emmeline Armitage and Sophie Parke. Powered by Transmission Roundhouse.