Wales Arts Review Audio

This week we celebrate one WHOLE year of bringing you the Wales Arts Review Podcast. We count down the top 5 most listened to episodes, shoutout to fans, and say 'thank you' to all those who have helped us along the way. If you want to support the podcast head to www.ko-fi.com/walesartspod  to donate. And we'll be back in August with brand new content!

This week we talk to Gareth Smith about his reviews of two crime thrillers - S4C’s Yr Amgueddfa, and BBC One’s Welsh-made series The Pact – thinking about the efficacy of formulas and codes, as well as the relationship between genre and place. In our second segment we discuss Nia Edwards-Behi's exploration of the term ‘post-horror’, questioning the existence of the concept of post-horror in and of itself, and thinking about the potentialities of horror beyond critical snobbery. We also look at Martha O’Brien’s review of Rachel Trezise’s Easy Meat—a return to the 2016 referendum through the eyes of Caleb Jenkins, exploring Wales’ relationship to the EU, examining class concerns and the desire for control, and if we can definitively say why Wales voted Leave. Finally, we’ll be letting you know what projects and events you should be looking out for in our ‘What’s on, Wales’ segment. Follow us on Twitter @WalesArtsPod and send us a tweet if there are any topics that you think we should be talking about. You can email us at [email protected] if you would like your project or event to be featured in the ‘What’s on, Wales?’ segment of our next episode, and you can also leave comments while supporting the podcast at www.ko-fi.com/walesartspod Links to Articles Discussed: Gareth Smith, ‘Yr Amgueddfa | New S4C Thriller is Far From Formulaic’ https://www.walesartsreview.org/yr-amgueddfa-new-s4c-thriller-is-far-from-formulaic/ Gareth Smith, ‘The Pact | TV Review’ https://www.walesartsreview.org/the-pact-tv-review/ Nia Edwards-Behi, ‘Cinema | A Response to Post-Horror’ https://www.walesartsreview.org/cinema-a-response-to-post-horror/ Martha O’Brien, ‘Easy Meat by Rachel Trezise | Books’ https://www.walesartsreview.org/books-easy-meat-by-rachel-trezise/ What’s on, Wales? Nawr Magazine www.twitter.com/nawrmag Honno Press https://www.honno.co.uk/submissions-and-services/welsh-women-writing-crime/ Life on the Levels Exhibition https://www.livinglevels.org.uk/events/2021/5/18/life-on-the-levels-exhibition Music: ‘Vienna Beat’ by Blue Dot Sessions From the Free Music Archive (www.freemusicarchive.org) CC by NC (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)