Curiously Drawn

Chris McCrudden

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 12:00:06 GMT

Author Chris McCrudden talks about his very 1980s, magic-and-kindness heavy choices - Princess Adora's Archer and Illusionist himbo friend; King Comics' 1920s magician turned adoptive dad and Defender of the Earth; and a little-remembered kindly old utopian scientist, voiced by Peter Ustinov.

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Mary O'Connell

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:00:44 GMT

Stand up comedian & writer Mary O'Connell talks about her choices - a nuclear war survivor Vampire girl with fabulous hair (who is occasionally an Emo boy voiced by Donald Glover), an Elvis style womaniser dealing with 90s feminism, and a chaotic pair of lovable antagonists who love dragging up and hanging out with their talking cat, and may or may not be doing it in their hot air balloon.

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Laura Howell

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 12:00:52 GMT

Beano & Manga artist Laura Howell talks to me about her choices - a boy who turns into a pig and has the world's worst sense of direction, the big, blue, incredibly late 90s culmination of Warner Bros' Spielberg-led postmodern kids show era, and - representing the recent sexy trend of 'hyper-capable male love interests to wackier, schlubbier women' - Japan's favourite former Yakuza turned suburban Househusband.

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Ella Watts

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:00:17 GMT

Audio producer and director Ella Watts talks about her choices - a tragic anime military alchemist, a revolutionary warrior woman who is also a lesbian marriage in herself and an antarctic badass waterbending mom friend.

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Jack Bernhardt

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 12:00:35 GMT

Comedy writer and podcaster Jack Bernhardt talks about his very PTSD Riddled choices - a lonely, grumpy one eyed mutant who thinks she's an alien, a grieving, out-of-her-depth 19-year-old trying to hold the remaining scraps of her family together and a yodellin' cowgirl with a tragic, traumatic past and decades worth of claustrophobia.

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Louise Blain

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:00:38 GMT

Tech and Gaming journalist and BBC Radio 3's 'Sound of Gaming' presenter Louise Blain talks to me about her choices - a Bronze Age assassin, a flame haired vigilante hero and a twin pistol wielding, hot pants wearing, sensibly shod icon of female video game characters.

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Max Davis

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:00:32 GMT

Comedy writer Max Davis talks to me about his choices - the quickly Fridged Ideal Spider-man, the malapropism prone Hormone Monster withe the good hair who ONNNLY takes Bubble Baths and the lovelorn, bespectacled Office Manager to a bunch of New York exorcists.

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Julia Raeside

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 12:00:18 GMT

Journalist and Podcaster Julia Raeside talks about her very 80s crushes - a Spanish/Japanese cat based interpretation of Jules Verne's intrepid Gentleman Adventurer (who wears a full suit and top hat but no shoes), a French/Japanese scifi reimagining of Homer's original hapless traveller and Britain's ultimate superhero - a stupid man voiced by a clever man. I get to use the 'Anime Dad' klaxon for the first time, which is exciting.

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Nat Metcalfe

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:00:36 GMT

Comedy writer and presenter Nat Mecalfe talks us through his very Mid Century Suburbia Heavy choices - Peanuts' pianist fancying antagonist Lucy Van Pelt, Bedrock's hot brunette housewife Betty Rubble and the stretchy motherlode of fretful, well-rounded middle-aged superheroism, Helen Parr.

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Friz Frizzle

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 12:00:00 GMT

Musical Comedian Friz Frizzle talks about their choices - a sweet, brave, heartbroken little squirrel in Medieval England, a hot - if slightly passive aggressive - musician and dog lover and a poetic, lovesick, monobrowed school bully. There's also a segue (entirely my fault) into very rude fanart about about the Toys R Us mascot.

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Stardew Summer Special, feat. Emma Nagouse

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:05:03 GMT

In this double length summer special episode, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch talks to her fellow (British Podcast Award Winning) Homeschool History writer and You're Dead To Me Teamster Emma Nagouse about six(!) characters from one video game that Gabby got Emma addicted to - this summer holiday, we're heading to Stardew Valley, where the singletons are surprisingly complex and attractive pixel people. Hotties on the beach, hotties on the river and one sad little chicken man who needs saving and loving and feeding pizza.

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Tom Neenan

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:00:49 GMT

Comedy writer, actor & stand up Tom Neenan talks about his choices - an heroic, fun loving Star Trek Redshirt, a psychotic spy from somewhere between 1960 & now and a return to this podcast's surprising favourite.

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Louie Stowell

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 12:00:29 GMT

Author of 'Otherland' and 'Loki: A Bad God's Guide To Being Good' Louie Stowell talks about her choices - Tolkein's Elf Queen as voiced by Mrs Meldrew, Judge Dredd's hot mate and a grumpy, chain smoking Liverpudlian Occult Detective.

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Lucy Porter

Wed, 05 Jan 2022 12:00:37 GMT

Stand up, actress & Her Off The Telly Lucy Porter talks about her picks - a very happy go lucky dragon, the mysterious spirit of international storytelling and a big strong British lady. We also talk about the joy of a plucky little bespectacled hamster.

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Méabh de Brún

Wed, 29 Dec 2021 12:00:07 GMT

Award winning playwright and star of The Silt Verses Méabh de Brún talks about her very Angsty Goth Heavy choices - a hapless Boy Genius who's only bad because he worries he'd fail at being good, a nuclear war surviving thousand year old Vampire bassist and the most obscure Marvel character in the world.

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Charlie Dinkin

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:00:08 GMT

Stand-up, writer, producer & all-round funny person Charlie Dinkin talks about a stressed, Fedora wearing chipmunk, an Elvis-based 90s wannabe womaniser and the original Sexy Cartoon Lady, who has managed to persevere for 90 years despite getting killed by the Hayes Code.

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Tiernan Douieb

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 12:00:36 GMT

Stand-up comedian Tiernan Douieb chats about three badass cartoon ladies - an heroic alien anthropomorphic Cheetah who needs picking up if she goes too far on one of her runs, one of Marvel's many morally grey psychic mutant women (albeit the only one who is sometimes British and sometimes Japanese) and a hard nosed Interpol officer on a vengeance spree who likes to skip in a crop top afterwards.

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Gráinne Maguire

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:25:11 GMT

Stand up & comedy writer Gráinne Maguire talks about her cartoon crushes - a pathetic man who gets bullied by his own pets, an adorable small bear who might be a child, we're not quite sure, and an orphaned chipmunk who sings pop songs (and I talk about the Chipmunk's Hot, Tired, Emotionally Vulnerable Single Dad, because clearly I have a type).

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Eleanor Morton

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 13:16:09 GMT

Stand up, comedy writer and actor Eleanor Morton talks us through her collection of international hot cartoon men - a Russian con man with a heart of gold & a penchant for kidnapping old ladies, an earnest team leader in the Chinese army and a hot guy from a generic country that could be based somewhere in the Middle East, North Africa, Southern Europe or South America - we just don't know, but he's got a lil ukulele.

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Sian Docksey

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 09:15:29 GMT

Award winning stand-up & pole dancer Sian Docksey takes us on an 'aggressively bisexual' tour around her eclectic mix of cartoon crushes - a moody monotreme, a 90s cool girl and a complex sad cat in a toxic sad horse's world.

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Sara Gibbs

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:16:00 GMT

Comedy writer and author of 'Drama Queen' Sara Gibbs talks autism, socialism, gingers and more as we talk about her occasionally problematic trio of non human Disney fellas.

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