The Outland Institute

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Presented by John Richards
Email spd@joy.org.au

The Outland Institute looks at culture in its many and varied forms. From film to radio, the visual arts to public trends, you'll find it mouldering away in a glass box somewhere. The Institute is located in Melbourne, Australia, formerly the most livable city in the world. Your guide around the Institute is writer, film-maker and occasional box-office monkey John Richards. You can also hear John talk about television on the Boxcutters podcast every week at http://boxcutters.net/

Outland Institute episode 22

December 16, 2009 — Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture, TV & Film —

Porn stars! Season finales! Fame (the movie)! Bret Easton Ellis! Almost Fabulous looks at the other Minnelli, and Crimes Against Pop looks at Dracula (cha cha cha)! All this and another 76 seconds of Judith […]

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Outland Institute episode 21b

December 4, 2009 — Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture, TV & Film —

Where were we? Craig McLachlan (of Neighbours, Home & Away, Bugs and Check 1, 2 fame) presents a mighty Crime Against Pop, and Glenn Dunks looks back on the Aussie films of 2009 and nearly […]
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Outland Institute episode 21a

December 3, 2009 — Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture, TV & Film —

A show so explosive we had to break it up! In part 1 comedian Judith Lucy talks about fame, Josh enters The Twilight Zone and Narrelle offers top book gift ideas. Collect them all!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 49:26 — 33.9MB)
Outland Institute episode 20

November 29, 2009 — Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture, TV & Film —

Corin and Toby from Beauty & The Geek; explore Melbourne with Arcade Publishing’s new books; Paul Kooperman tells us that poetry is not boring; Glenn celebrates actor Tilda Swinton; Crimes Against Pop is John Waters-related; […]
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Outland Institute episode 19

November 22, 2009 — Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture, TV & Film —

Josh Fruhlinger from The Comics Curmudgeon website talks to us about comic strips; Josh Kinal claims the new Golden Age Of Television is an opportunity for snobbery; Narrelle M Harris looks at the not-so-proud history […]
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Outland Institute episode 18

November 17, 2009 — Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture, TV & Film —

Josh Kinal surprisingly enjoys The Contender (Australia), although no-one can remember the hostâ€™s name; Narrelle interviews author George Ivanoff about his new book Gamersâ€™ Quest, and how you turn a short story into a novel, […]
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Outland Institute episode 17

November 7, 2009 — Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture, TV & Film —

Angie Hart talks music and Joss Whedon; Narrelle looks at pop-up books; Glenn reviews Paranormal Activity; Crimes Against Pop goes a bit Eurovision (again); and Josh looks at the US quiz show Jeopardy.
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Outland Institute episode 16

October 28, 2009 — Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture, TV & Film —

Josh Kinal talks to John Safran about his new television show Race Relations; Narrelle M Harris examines why good books become bad films; Richard Fitzgerald looks at stage musical adaptations that didnâ€™t work out so […]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:20:00 — 54.9MB)
Outland Institute episode 15

October 23, 2009 — Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture, TV & Film —

Bernard Caleo joins us to praise Aussie comic books; Narrelle celebrates the world of filk music; Glenn hearts the 1980 documentary Paris Is Burning; and only Josh gets grumpy, splitting hairs over quiz show terminology.
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Outland Institute episode 14

October 15, 2009 — Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture, TV & Film —

Narrelle looks at the overlap of literature and recipe books, Glenn talks about viral marketing in cinema, Josh tries to talk about variety television but John just ends up ranting about the racism of blackface, […]
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