{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/646204ca41a73600110c86d5/64b2886d74bba70011fbab20?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Paul Critoph: From Kinky Boots to The Krankies (In An Era of Nuclear Dread)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/646204ca41a73600110c86d5/1776870046470-f6f5e379-63f6-44ff-a6f4-f0377a94a360.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Paul Critoph brings his homemade grading system, a Doctor Who credit, and the story of chasing Chiwetel Ejiofor around the set of Kinky Boots — alongside some genuinely unsettling thoughts about 1980s children's animation.</p><p>Paul Critoph is an actor, photographer and self-appointed cultural commentator known for his encyclopaedic knowledge of television across the decades and a very particular approach to grading what he watches.</p><ul><li>His Doctor Who role — and the unsavoury character names he's somehow accumulated along the way</li><li>The soothing, almost hypnotic appeal of gentle Japanese television — and why it works</li><li>The surprisingly dark world of 1980s children's animation — cartoons that stirred genuine unease and nuclear dread in equal measure</li><li>Why the Krankies represent something specific about a particular era of British variety entertainment</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Connect with Paul here:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/paulcritoph\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Originally released under the podcast's former name: Television Times.</p><p>Find us on social media — links on the About page.</p>","author_name":"Steve Otis Gunn"}