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The Difference Engine Podcast
The Difference Engine by Mark Brake explores science, history and popular culture
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Episodes
The Difference Engine PodcastMad Doctors of the Movies: Strangelove and Lecter
Hannibal Lecter Claim to fame: the psychiatrist who takes an interest in what makes people tick, then wonders what they might taste like. Impeccable manners…
The Difference Engine PodcastThe Daleks: A Motion Picture
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The Difference Engine PodcastMad Doctors of the Movies: Rotwang and Caligari
Rotwang Claim to fame: the inventor who builds a female robot but gifts her a rebel leader’s face. Mad pedigree: Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis gave us the…
The Difference Engine PodcastMad Doctors of the Movies: Jekyll and Moreau
Dr Moreau Claim to fame: the surgeon who turns animals into people. A pioneer of bodily transformation. Unlikely to trouble the shortlist for a bedside-manner…
The Difference Engine PodcastMad Doctors of the Movies: Faustus and Frankenstein
Dr Frankenstein Claim to fame: the first great myth of the modern age; the original and still the maddest. Frankenstein was, of course, the name of the…