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Ep. 1: Film, Nuns and Deathly Dances

By: Phoebe Bennett, Nick Minter
Narrated by: Alice Lowe
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Cinema thrives on hysterical characters, especially when they inhabit closed environments such as convents or girls schools. But what can we make of the dozens of people who died during a dancing epidemic in medieval France?

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Obviously someone doesn't know their history. I quickly lost interest with that nugget of historical disinformation .

Police in the 14th century ?

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Really in response to the negative reviews here who I don’t think know who this woman is or what work she has done. Sexist she is not. Directed and starred in Prevenge - a horror about a murderous foetus - whilst she herself was extremely pregnant. Garth Marenghi’s dark place. Sightseers… she’s a legend.

Alice Lowe is a national treasure

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Watch Unrest on Netflix and then listen this and I'm sure you'll agree that this podcast does nothing to challenge myths about hysteria, if anything it bolsters them. I lost interest in the first episode. Total bs.

Sexist and demeaning to women

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