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May 28, 2023 1 hr 1 min

Scared Out of Your Wits

from Homespun Wisdom: Talks With My Neighbour Hosted by Sarah Sharman, Daniel Confino

Daniel and Sarah discuss the movie Sightseers part road trip, part couple serial murderers. Cinema warnings when it’s too late to leave. Scary theatrical tricks in “Dracula the Bloody Truth”. Bomb disposal as the scariest job. The English Patient discussed. Dogs and fireworks. April’s fools. Daniel shocks Sarah. Room 101 and your greatest fears. Anticipating torture is worse than the reality. Children being scared by stories while feeling safe. Clowns. Masks and fixed faces. Sarah intervenes with disturbed guy on the tube. Danger seekers and scaredy-cats. Piper Alpha disaster and jumping from height into water. False safety in numbers. Being scared of the dark. Fight or flight reaction and freezing. The primal scream. Sarah scared by whirling dervisher brushes at a car wash. Daniel traumatised by Struwwelpeter, from Germany.

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