Bread & Barricades: A Les Mis Podcast
Comedy education podcast where Nemo and Stevie read Victor Hugo's Les Mis in a search to understand it and our world better.
Episodes
Grace, Stevie, and Nemo introduce what is perhaps France’s greatest piece of literature with Olympus innuendos, mammoth egos and why you can read Black Lives Matter into debates happening in the 19th Century. We also just really love Javert and Gardening AUs.
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing was by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.
Grace, Stevie, and Nemo talk donkeys, compare brick sizes and learn some life lessons in kindness in their second episode!
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing was by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.
Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter
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Grace, Stevie and Nemo get the very wrong end of the stick, talk about sweaty greatcoats and screw orphans over for chairs. Do we ever realise our fondest dreams?
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing was by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.
Special! We watch the 2012 film and talk: Hugh Jackman (a lot), D&D alignments (again), George Blagden, Horses, Christians (surprisingly), and reading fanfics for SCIENCE. Film/TV mentioned: The Greatest Showman, The Last Jedi, Mamma Mia!, Big Eden, Imagine Me and You, Whitechapel, Lewis, Grease. Anyway, Nemo is bitter about story cuts and thinks everything’s a lot better in the book.
We are very aware that a lot of the 'facts'...
This week, Nemo clears their name, we discuss fandom "shame" and headcanons, and uncover the greatest Father Myriel Conspiracy this world has ever seen. #YOLO #NoCrowe #FriendsDontKinkshame.
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing was by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.
Not going to lie, this episode's a bit... wild. Nemo, Grace and Stevie talk yaoi anime, the TERROR, horse fashion shows, intended audiences, Shakespeare, vigilantes, Government shutdowns, and Nemo hallucinates an alternate dimension. Not really sure where we went wrong, but I think we were doomed from the beginning.
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing was by JDWasabi....
RELIGION! Is it important in Les Mis? I mean, yeah. Probably. Sorry for the hiatus, but Nemo, Stevie and Grace are back at it again with Victor Hugo conspiracy theories and self-inserts, Epic Academic Rap Battles and come across the ULTIMATE Javert-Valjean theory. Providence and Destiny y’all.
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing was by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Coll...
This week we spend a good 15 minutes google mapping France, God sets a bear on some children, and Jean Valjean (FINALLY) walks 500 miles (and would walk 500 more). Also, huge thanks to Urban-Barbarian for THIS beautiful photoset! Find Kath here.
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing was by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.
TW: Suicide and Death mentions, Food and Starvation and mentions of dubious consent.
Today Grace, Stevie and Nemo talk to special guest Autumngracy! We do fanfic 101, talk slowburns, punching Victor Hugo in the face, Toulon and research, problematic fics and dubcon, shirt-ripping romances and, inexplicably, London Chicken Shops.
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing was b...
TW: extensive conversation about Depression.
This week, Stevie has Dreams of a Live show, Nemo’s enamoured with the Japanese Les Mis, and Grace cannot see the wood for the trees. We also talk Depression, Philosophy, Black Panther, Positive Thinking and the fact that Valjean is SWOLE. Feat some real outstanding theories, people.
Oh, and Nemo did the mix today so apologies, again, for sound quality.
TW: mentions of drugs, violence
This week is… a lot. Like, if you want actual content, I’d advise starting at 32:00. Otherwise: we’re in the same room after a long time not recording together, so queue the early onset hysteria! Nemo, Grace and Stevie talk identity theft, the G man, Big Valjean Moods, squicks, dark fics and we get our Marketing Game On!
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction a...
CW: Death, murder, sudden Fire alarm
What do Myriel the Play, intrusive thoughts, terrible accents and Chekhov’s glistening chests have in common? This podcast.
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing was by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.
Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter
CW: brief mentions of injuries, death and depression.
Today’s special finds us backstage with Les Mis West End’s Fantine: Carley Stenson! We discuss Phil, Drag King personas, Fantine and Valjean and Dumping Your Boyfriend For Acting.
You can find Carley here: Twitter, Instagram, Website
And her workshops here: workshopwestend@gmail.com
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro compo...
CW: Biological Essentialism, Sex Work and ‘Prostitution’, discussions of Rape and issues with consent, Alcohol use, Police Brutality, ICE
Women! They’re in Les Mis! This week Stevie gives us a crash course on women of the nineteenth-century, including the Terror, Bread Complaints, Industrialisation, sex work, an intro to Fantine and Victor Hugo’s ragin’ Daddy Kink.
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The au...
Lads, lads, lads, here them boys, here them average, unremarkable boys. What’s up 2019! It’s been A Fuckin’ While! We’ve made it to Fantine!
Tune in dive into the fleur-de-lis, a social context of Paris, the beginnings of a merry prank, Cockney Rhymed Names, Scented and Glowing gals that Boob boobingly and some r/Romantic discourse.
Bonus game, count how many times Grace says: “It’s such Bullshit”.
cw: Racism, Domestic Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Sexual Assault.
A “mini” review of the first two episodes of Andrew Davies’ BBC adaptation of Les Mis. It might shock you to find out that we get pretty angry about racism, misogyny and abuse.
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing was by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.
cw: alcohol
We continue our journey with Fantine! After last episode’s mind-gripping cliffhanger, tune in for pillaging bees, absinthe fields, a Spanish song about leggies, the architecture of Paris, gratified male vanity… and a whole lot of stanning over our favourite Favorite. Do not fuck the fields.
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing was by JDWasabi. It is a Captain...
My theatre’s always open! About 5 months ago, we watched Les Mis West End, and we finally got around to talking about our thoughts. This includes Valjean’s Titties Out, Big Shrek Energy, how incredible we think Carley is, Nemo’s vested interest against vibrato, Stevie’s newfound love of lighting design and Bishop Myriel’s French Manicure.
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro compos...
One year down the line, we thought it might be best to make an introductory / best of / trailer episode so you know what you can expect of us!
This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin, and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing was by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.
Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter
cw: transphobia mention, death mention, incel mention, extended conversation about rape, animal death, alcohol mention, sex work
A story about an NPC plumber, a tragedy about punny people, the wisdom of a Law Student voiding his soul with overindulgence and zeal, basic-level Orientalism, 19th Century TripAdvisor, Stevie’s Horrifying Revelation and … a horse.
(also apologies for the clicking in the background, Jade was playing Don’...
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