What The History Podcast

Pope Looks Like a Lady and The Naughty Night Trap

Suzie delves into the mystery of Pope Joan and Trevor geeks it up with some video game history featuring Night Trap.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

POPE JOAN

Biography.com 2016, ‘Pope Joan’ http://www.biography.com/people/pope-joan-279083

Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. 2016, ‘Pope Joan’ https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pope-Joan#ref178500

Martin of Opava or Troppau 1278, ‘Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum’                                              http://www.textmanuscripts.com/tm-assets/tm-descriptions/tm0117-description.pdf

Squires N 2010, ‘Pope Joan film sparks Roman Catholic Church row’, The Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/7841690/Pope-Joan-film-sparks-Roman-Catholic-Church-row.html

Wikipedia 2016, ‘Pope Joan’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan

Books and Movies About, featuring and characterising Pope Joan

Pope Joan (aka Die Papstin)– 2009, directed by Sonke Wortmann, adapted from the novel of the same name, written in 1996 by Donna Woolfolk Cross

Pope Joan – 1972, directed by Michael Anderson, re-released in 2009 under the title of She….Who Would Be Pope

Papstin Johanna – 1813 play written by Ludwig Achim von Arnim

Pausin Johanna – 1986 monodrama written by Cees van der Pluijm

Top Girls – 1982 play written by Caryl Churchill

The Myth of Pope Joan – 2001 written by Alain Boureau

NIGHT TRAP

Night Trap – www.hardcoregaming101.net

Night Trap: a closer look at one of the most controversial games ever made – www.denofgeek.com

Night Trap ReVamped – www.kickstarter.com

History of the ESRB – www.esrb.org

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

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