NEON: The Real History Behind Popular Culture
NEON is a different way of sharing historical knowledge. NEON takes a pop culture phenomenon and turns it on its head by revealing lesser known facts, real-life events and history behind your favourite Netflix shows, movies or video games.From how the A-Team took inspiration from Vietnamese history and resistance leaders, to the Aryan purity and Harem breeding programs behind the Handmaid’s Tale. Even some of the most successful video games – Assassins Creed, God of War, and Fortnite – are steeped in history.NEON has already uncovered historical references in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Black Panther, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, The Greatest Showman and the musical, Hamilton.Presented by Jem DuducuProduced by Dan Morelle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Written & Presented by Jem Duducu
Producer: Dan Morelle
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Written & Presented by Jem Duducu
Special Guest: Tom Holland
Producer: Dan Morelle
Tom Holland is a writer and popular historian who has published best-selling books on topics including classical and medieval history and the origins of Islam.
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Written & Presented by Jem Duducu
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Music: Kinuyo Yamashita and Satoe Terashima - Battle of the Holy
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This episode originally aired in 2018.
How can an unscripted reality show, largely filled with vacuous individuals teach us history? For this one NEON goes way back and talks about the biological reason for finding a mate as opposed to the way strawberries or starfish can do it on their own. Finding a mate defines most of the natural world and a lot of human history too and Love Island shows us this. Add to that the dark under b...
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Producer: Dan Morelle
Music: The Herbaliser - The Sensual Woman
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Written & Presented by Jem Duducu
Producer: Dan Morelle
Music: The Herbaliser - The Sensual Woman
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The TV show Lucifer is back on Netflix. One of the few hit movies Keanu Reeves has done that doesn’t involve gunplay is the devils advocate. So it’s the perfect time to talk about the devil. In this episode of Neon we take these 2 pop culture views of satan and explore this most ancient of evils. It takes us to areas that will genuinely surprise.
Written & Presented by Jem Duducu
Producer: Dan Morelle
Music: The Rolling Stones...
The TV show Lucifer is back on Netflix. One of the few hit movies Keanu Reeves has done that doesn’t involve gunplay is the devils advocate. So it’s the perfect time to talk about the devil. In this episode of Neon we take these 2 pop culture views of satan and explore this most ancient of evils. It takes us to areas that will genuinely surprise.
Written & Presented by Jem Duducu
Producer: Dan Morelle
Music: Jidenna - Long Liv...
American gods is a supernatural drama set in contemporary America, and yet its characters date back thousands of years from across the globe. Allow Neon to take you on a journey from the dark forests of central Europe to the Savannah grasslands of Africa.
Written & Presented by Jem Duducu
Producer: Dan Morelle
Music: Brian Reitzell - Main Title Theme
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American gods is a supernatural drama set in contemporary America, and yet its characters date back thousands of years from across the globe. Allow Neon to take you on a journey from the dark forests of central Europe to the Savannah grasslands of Africa.
Written & Presented by Jem Duducu
Producer: Dan Morelle
Music: Romare - Work Song
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With the army of the dead baring down on Winterfell Jon Snow finds it’s hard to get the houses to fight for a common goal. Realistic? Yes, there have been many occasions in history where factions squabble as the real danger is on the horizon. This episode of Neon looks at real examples of the challenges Jon Snow faces.
Written & Presented by Jem Duducu
Producer: Dan Morelle
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With the army of the dead baring down on Winterfell Jon Snow finds it’s hard to get the houses to fight for a common goal. Realistic? Yes, there have been many occasions in history where factions squabble as the real danger is on the horizon. This episode of Neon looks at real examples of the challenges Jon Snow faces.
Written & Presented by Jem Duducu
Producer: Dan Morelle
Music: Chemical Brothers - Lost In The K Hole
Today Thor is a superhero but a thousand years ago he was worshipped. Thor takes us into the meaning of our calendar and how legends evolve. Allow Neon to guide you through more than a millennia of history, culture and religion.
Written & Presented by Jem Duducu
Producer: Dan Morelle
Music: Incredible Bongo Band - Apache
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Producer: Dan Morelle
Music: Tom Rogerson, Brian Eno - Motion in Field
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In space no one can hear you scream - oh wait, that was last week wasn't it? Right! This time around Jem explores the real history behind movie posters and an artist whose work your probably love but whose name you probably don't even know.
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Music: Portishead - Cowboys
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In space no one can hear you scream. In this episode Jem discusses the history of cinema, human phobias and fears and how disgusting creatures have been reproducing for millions of years!
Producer: Dan Morelle
Music: DJ Shadow, Nils Frahm - Scars
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Jem discusses how humans have stored and consumed information over the millennia.
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Producer: Dan Morelle
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Written & Presented by Jem Duducu
Produced by Dan Morelle
Music: DangerDoom - Sofa King
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