This week, I'm delighted to welcome Kit Power to the show! After some initial and vaguely relevant discussion about Season 4 of The Crown (Netflix, 2016-), we proceed to a thorough chat about a mutual favourite, the 1990 BBC TV political drama miniseries House of Cards, starring Ian Richardson and Susannah Harker.
SPOILERS for House Of Cards itself, and very minor spoilers for the US remake show (Netflix, 2013-2018). We make minor references to To Play the King and The Final Cut, but these are spoiler-free, as we hope to cover these sequel miniseries in the future!
0.00 Intro
0.06 The Crown (Season 4)
0.22 House Of Cards (1990)
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Kit Power lives in Milton Keynes and writes horror and dark crime fiction, with occasional forays into dystopian science fiction. His fiction work includes a novel, ‘GodBomb!’, and a novella collection ‘Breaking Point’, two short story collections (‘A Warning About Your Future Enslavement That You Will Dismiss As A Collection Of Short Fiction And Essays By Kit Power’ and ‘Voices’) and novellas ‘The Finite’ and ‘A Song For The End’. He also writes non-fiction (https://www.gingernutsofhorror.com/my-life-in-horror.html with Volume 1 also available in book format) and has a limited hardback available on the subject of Ken Russell’s movie Tommy. In his increasingly inaccurately labelled spare time, he podcasts - on his own show, Watching Robocop With Kit Power, What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? with George Lea, and a Patreon exclusive show on the Sherlock Holmes canon with the legendary Jack Graham. For weekly early access to his fiction, non-fiction, and podcasting work, visit www.patreon.com/kitpower.
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
NOTES
House of Cards is currently available on BritBox, and can be purchased on Amazon Prime. The Andrew Marr interview with Ian Richardson (from 2006) which we play an excerpt from in the episode can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUXTzsWk3Bc. Also... this exists... and everyone must know about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwOCOm9Z0YE .
