Really True Fiction

05/17/2025

Hello wonderful community!

I find myself returning to a season of life where I would like to start doing more episodes of RTF! I'm reaching out to all of you for any suggestions about a story you would like to hear done. Thank you!

Luke

PS. If you want to do the episode with me, I'm well up for that too!

12/12/2024

https://reallytruefiction.libsyn.com/ep-90-bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed-boogie-nights

Big thanks to Graham King for joining me on episode 90!   In this episode we chat about the great film Boogie Nights (1997) by Paul Thomas Anderson. In this episode we wrangle with notions of: The essence of Faustian bargain being that you don't even ask for what you really want, and the isolat...

11/24/2024

https://reallytruefiction.libsyn.com/bonus-the-hardest-thing-to-predict-is-the-future-1984-vs-brave-new-world

Welcome to a bonus episode of Really True Fiction. Those with a keen eye will have noticed that our last two episodes were on 1984 and Brave New World. So, for a bonus, Dan and I do a bit of a compare and contrast between them; seeing as they are both very famous and of a similar ouevre. In this bon...

11/17/2024

https://reallytruefiction.libsyn.com/ep-89-may-the-ford-be-with-you-brave-new-world

Welcome to part two of our double bill on famous dystopia! In this episode Dan Holder and I delve into the 1931 novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. While disecting Huxley's vision of a dys(u?)topia, we chat about:  How this should've been an essay Is this even dystopia? Boring mantra and cl...

10/30/2024

New episode up today!

In this episode my friend Dan Holder and I dive into maybe the most referenced/least read book ever: 1984. In this episode we chat about Orwell's favourite pub, paying attention to the little things in life and how thought crime makes us lose those things, how Winston is attracted to all the little....