Juvenalia

Juvenalia

Tall Tales

English Arts Explicit
Episodes 242
Avg. Duration 1h
Activity Dormant
Since Mar 2016
Latest Episode Jul 2025

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Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
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About This Podcast

Everybody has that one thing they were obsessed with when they were young. Juvenalia is an Irish podcast where interesting people talk to Alan Maguire, Andrea Cleary, and Sarah Maria Griffin about the bit of pop culture that they were obsessed with when they were young, how they felt about it then and how they feel about it now. It's nice, you'll like it.

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Recent Episodes

S1E215 The Juvenalia Book Club: The Amber Spyglass

Jul 31, 2025 1h 11m

More like The Amber Cry-Glass amirite? Alan and Andrea are back to talk about the final book in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, The Amber Spyglass (2000). We’re talking about the Mufela,…

S1E214 214: Hairspray (1988) with Anna Carey

Jul 10, 2025 1h 7m

Author and podcaster Anna Carey returns to the show to talk to Alan and Sarah about John Waters’s punk camp classic Hairspray. We talka about camp, the lived-in-ness of the sets of Hairspray, the…

S1E213 The Juvenalia Book Club: His Dark Materials - The Subtle Knife

Jun 26, 2025 54m

The Juvenalia Book Club is back! We’re talking about book 2 of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series, The Subtle Knife. We talk about our love for new characters Will and Mary, the nature of…

S1E212 212: Beaches with Vicki Notaro

Jun 05, 2025 1h 9m

Author and Journalist Vicki Notaro joins us to talk about the queen of melodramas, the wind beneath our wings, Garry Marshall’s Beaches (1988). There’s a lot to get through, the performances, shitty…

S1E211 211: Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ‘74 with Ramper

May 22, 2025 40m

Donegal folk artist Ramper is with us to talk about the impact that Rory Gallagher’s live album Irish Tour ‘74 had on him as a young fella. We also talk about how our taste in guitar gods has changed…

S1E210 The Juvenalia Book Club: His Dark Materials - Northern Lights

May 07, 2025 1h 6m

Welcome to the first meeting of the Juvenalia Book Club. We’re going to be taking turns introducing each other to book series that we love. For our first run Andrea will be introducing Alan to the…

S1E209 209: Alien Resurrection with James Hudson

Apr 23, 2025 1h 15m

James Hudson is the festival director of the Trans Image Trans Experience (TITE) Festival which runs in the Lighthouse from April 25th-27th. He joined Alan and Andrea to talk about the fourth film in…

S1E208 208: Speed (1994)

Apr 14, 2025 1h 6m

the bus goes fastAlan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too.Andrea ⁠ @AndreaCleary_⁠. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With…

S1E207 207: Kate Nash's Made Of Bricks with Maria Kelly

Mar 27, 2025 50m

Singer-songwriter Maria Kelly is back to talk to us about Kate Nash’s 2007 debut album Made Of Bricks. We talk about Kate Nash’s songwriting, production choices, her appeal to teenage girls,…

Patreon Preview - Severance Season 2 Finale Reaction

Mar 22, 2025 9m Bonus

Hello, here's the first ten minutes of Alan and Andrea's reaction to the season 2 finale of Severance. The full 95 minute episode is available for our Slammer-level patrons over on Patreon.Enjoy!

S1E206 206: Hackers with Julie Hough

Mar 14, 2025 1h 11m

HACK THE PLANET! $p@gB011(Julie Hough of HAVVK and PostLast) is back and she’s brought us something special, 1995’s Hackers. She joins Steve Buffers (Alan) and Em@il (Andrea) to talk about the music,…

S1E205 205: Tegan And Sara with Kelly Earley

Feb 20, 2025 1h 2m

We’re back baby! Back with a bang because Irish internet legend Kelly Earley is here to talk about how important Tegan And Sara were to her as a young lesbian. We talk about Tumblr, treatong albums…

S1 Christmas 2024! Gremlins & Miracle On 34th Street

Dec 18, 2024 1h 14m

Hey! We’re back! Alan has never seen Miracle On 34th Street, Andrea has never seen Gremlins… until now. We’re talking about Gizmo, we’re talking about Phoebe Cates’s inappropriate Christmas stories,…

S1E204 204: Ghostwatch (1992) with Nick Roche

Oct 19, 2024 1h 11m

On Halloween Night 1992, the BBC aired Ghostwatch, which purported to be a live investigation into a house and family that had been plagued by poltergeist activity. The studio segments were hosted by…

S1E203 203: Autumn Recs 24

Oct 03, 2024 56m

Hey there, Alan and Andrea have some recommendations for you now that autumn has properly hit. They’ve got an album and three TV shows. We say recommendations but you’ve definitely heard of at least…

S1E202 202: Brainiac: Science Abuse

Sep 19, 2024 56m

Happy Bisexuality Awareness Week! To celebrate, award winning food TikTok/Instagram person Sian Conway joined us to talk about Brainiac: Science Abuse. If you know you know. We talked all about our…

S1E201 201: The Fox And The Hound with Rachel Connolly

Sep 05, 2024 56m

Writer Rachel Connolly joins us to talk about Disney’s The Fox And The Hound (1981). We’re asking all the big questions this episode, questions like: why does Disney keep making sexy foxes? How much,…

S1E200 200: Buffy The Vampire Slayer with Kate Nash

Aug 22, 2024 1h 6m

Musician and actress Kate Nash joins us for our 200th episode as we take another run at Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Kate is a Buffy mega-fan so we had plenty to talk about. Things like Spike, Angel,…

S1E199 199: Starship Troopers with Callum Orr

Aug 08, 2024 1h 5m

Singer-songwriter Callum Orr joins us to talk about Paul Verhoeven’s super-camp, super-violent satire of fascist propaganda Starship Troopers (1997). We talk about the difference between watching it…

S1E198 198: The Chronicles Of Narnia with Janina Matthewson

Jul 25, 2024 53m

Author and podcaster Janina Matthewson joins us as we try to cover as much of C.S. Lewis's Narnia books as is physically possible in 53 minutes. We talk about the religious stuff, the mistreatment of…

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Juvenalia has published 242 episodes since March 2016, covering topics in Arts.

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