Episode 121: If We Were Villains – What Shakespeare has to say to a Modern Audience
Episode 122: Baby Doom – The Stork Visits in Speculative Fiction
Episode 123: From the Deep – Mystery, Suspense and Sea Monsters in Historical Fantasy
Episode 124: Visitations and Forebodings – How Nightmares are used in Speculative Fiction
Episode 126: The Slow Death of Literature – What Readers Really Want
Episode 127: Crime & Culpability – Should Characters get what they Really Deserve
Episode 128: Neat Little Monsters – The Animal Companion in Speculative Fiction
Episode 129: Marrying in Haste – Young Love in YA Speculative Fiction
Episode 130: Masked Marauders – Double Lives and Secret Identities in Speculative Fiction
Episode 131: Hobbit Holes, Burrows and Secret Lairs – the Concept of Home in Speculative Fiction
Episode 132: Stranger than Fiction – the Weird and Wonderful World of Writing
Episode 133:Every Hero Needs a Sam – The Unlikely Best Friend in Speculative Fiction
Episode 134: Love Ladies Lost! Revisiting Arthurian Legend
Ep 135: Grimalkin, Mogget and Mr Kindly – Cats in Speculative Fiction
Episode 137: This Year’s God – The Human Need for Archetypes
Episode 139: That is Illogical – Murderous, Wacky and Wise-cracking AI in Speculative Fiction
Episode 140: Parody, Farce and Exaggeration – Satire in Speculative Fiction
Episode 141: Spirits of the Deep and Dark – A Dissecting Dragons Hallowe’en Special
Episode 142: Battlefield Earth – Intergalactic Invasions in Speculative Fiction
Episode 143: Making Sh!t Happen – Avoiding the Number One Writing Fail
Episode 144: Private Eyes and Underworlds – Crime Meets Urban Fantasy
Episode 145: Away with the Faeries – Girls versus Supernatural Queens
Episode 146: The Hollywood Treatment – What the Movies Changed
Episode 147: Trading Capes – When Villains become Heroes
Episode 148: The Holly and the Ivy – The Root of the Carol
Episode 149: 2018 – The Good, the Bad and the Utterly Bizarre