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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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Signup to Generate a PitchEverybody 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.
Juvenalia is hosted by Tall Tales. The show has published 242 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Juvenalia Book Club: The Amber Spyglass" (31 July 2025, 72 minutes), "214: Hairspray (1988) with Anna Carey" (10 July 2025, 67 minutes), and "The Juvenalia Book Club: His Dark Materials - The Subtle Knife" (26 June 2025, 55 minutes).
Juvenalia publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 60 minutes across 242 episodes.
Booking probability for Juvenalia is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Juvenalia requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Juvenalia's contact route on record: verified email.
Tall Tales hosts Juvenalia, an arts podcast with 242 episodes published.
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Episode #215
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, the change in Mrs...
Episode #214
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 genius of Divine, the...
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 dark matter in the His...
Episode #212
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 New York Apartments...
Episode #211
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 as we’ve gotten...
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 His Dark Materials...
Episode #209
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 the Aien...
Episode #208
the bus goes fast Alan 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 Andrea Cleary and...
Episode #207
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, Foundations, Foundations...
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!
Episode #206
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, the fashion, the...
Episode #205
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 like haircuts, JoJo...
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, we’re tsalking...
Episode #204
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 Michael Parkinson...
Episode #203
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 two of these...
Episode #202
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 school experiences of...
Episode #201
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, if any, moral...
Episode #200
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, femininity, The Body...
Episode #199
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 for the first time...
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 Susan in The Last...
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