Realms Unknown
Hosted by Alice and Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan · The Bugle
4.8from 26 ratings
- 71
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 26
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About Realms Unknown
Fantasy, Sci Fi and speculative fiction, observed through the comedic lens of The Bugle. Become a Bugle subscriber to enjoy this show ad free and help us thrive.Expect reviews and supernova level hot takes on literature, gaming, films, TV, board games, and anywhere else you can experience space ships, clones and beautiful elves with massive weapons.A podcast from The Bugle. Hosted by Alice Fraser and friends. Also available as a video podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- The Bugle
- Category
- arts · comedy · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Jan 2025
- Latest episode
- 16 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 71 episodes have a transcript.
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Magic as Politics, Politics as Magic
Published 16 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I think you're right, like for those first two things, because I think the central concept, I don't know if listeners know it, but the central like idea of Babel is that it's a kind of an alternative history of of sort of academicism, really, and of like. oxford as an institution and the idea is that what they do there is they research a particular kind of magic that translates words in other languages back into english and the thing that is missed in that translation because you can never like purely translate the tension between the two meanings yeah creates a magical effect magical uh engine is the tension the energy provided by the tension between two meanings yeah of a word that is almost the same in two languages but not, and so that this empire, with all of the baggage of what we think of as the British Empire, then has to use foreign students Yeah. […]
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- Joz Norris
- Hannah Wakeford
- James Colley
- Jackie Kashian
- Ria Lina
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 1,512,039
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 26 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 70 / 100
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- Quality
- 84
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 51
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Questions about Realms Unknown
Who hosts Realms Unknown?
Alice and Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan host the show. Published by The Bugle.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Realms Unknown take guests?
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