Show Notes
We sit down with the incredible Steve Shell, co-creator of Old Gods of Appalachia, to chat through Season 1 of The Silt Verses and answer some questions.
Content warning: at 31.41-32.16, sexual assault is mentioned in reference to divine cruelty in Greek myth.
Transcript: https://www.thesiltverses.com/transcript-qa
2.21: What was the inspiration for The Silt Verses? 7.34: How did Carpenter and Faulkner develop as characters? 12.00: Themes around religion? 14.51: How did you prepare for your roles? 18.59: What god would you choose / invent? 23.03: How is an episode created? 24.25: What is easiest and hardest about working on the show? 30.37: Was the show influenced by Greek myth? 32.58: What was the process for audio design? 34.28: Did Eskew prepare you for the Silt Verses? 38.00: Did Carpenter have an emo phase? 39.25: The show has lots of horrible noises - is the audio editor okay?? 39.47: What was the significance of the character names? 40.38: Who’s your favourite character to write? 42.01: What’s been the most surprising / best fan reaction? 45.34: Was C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces an influence? 46.18: Is the show a road-trip buddy comedy? 47.51: Why did you choose an ensemble cast? 49.21: How did the religious wars begin? 50.41: What DnD classes would the characters be? 51.17: What’s your favourite kind of scene to act out? 54.15: What’s the best thing about playing Carpenter? 57.07: Why did you choose the mix of dialogue and prose? 58.32: How do you lose an entire town to the Wither Mark? 1.01.30: We all ramble about lived-in worlds for a while 1.06.30: Which mouths of the Trawler-man do Carpenter and Faulkner represent? 1.08.28: How do you feel about usage of the setting? 1.09.05: Why all the different accents? 1.13.15: What colour are Faulkner’s shoes?
This Q&A was recorded during London Podcast Festival in September, and features responses in person from Muna, Jon, and Méabh de Brun - B. Narr and our audio editor Sammy Holden drop in remotely to answer some questions as well.)
A huge thank-you to everyone who sent in their questions. For the purposes of time, there were some questions that we merged, and a few others that we just didn’t give entertaining or interesting enough answers to on the night - if we didn’t get to yours, please do feel free to drop us a message on Tumblr and we’ll do our best to pick it up! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Part Two will arrive on Monday 22nd July! Thank you for your patience.