Radio Tintin: Recent Episodes
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A discussion of all things Tintin and Herge!
Visit us at latterature.com/tintin or follow us on Instagram @tintin.podcast for a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of some of Herge’s most iconic stories.
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Thank you to the people who made this episode possible:
Charlotte, Em Finan, Guillmero, Tell Aveledo, Henry Hemming, Jase Porter, Josh Underhill, Nestor, OddballSrJr, Sally W, Sam Rogerson, Alcazaaarrr!!, Brendan Mason, Chris Brayne, Robert Fletcher, Ryan and Tim Holzhauser.
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Thank you to the people who made this episode possible: Em Finan, Josh U, Leo, Sally W, Sam R, Yorick Incandenza, Brendan M, Charlotte, Chris B and Ryan.
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Thank you to the people who made this episode possible: Em Finan, Josh U, Leo, Sally W, Sam R, Yorick Incandenza, Charlotte, Brendan M, Chris B, Ryan and James P.
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Thank you to the people who made this episode possible: Em Finan, Josh U, Leo, Sally W, Sam R, Yorick Incandenza, Brendan M, Charlotte, Chris B and Ryan.
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Thank you to the people who made this episode possible: Em Finan, Josh U, Leo, Sally W, Sam R, Yorick Incandenza, Chris B and Ryan.
Thank you to my executive producer Em Finan, who made this episode possible.
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‘Microids and Moulinsart partnership announcement: A Tintin video game in the works!’https://www.microids.com/microids-and-moulinsart-partnership-announcement-a-tintin-video-game-in-the-works/
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This is an episode of another podcast I do called Good Book Boys, where I read and discuss books with my friend Josh. We recently read the non-Hergé work Tintin in the New World: A Romance and I think you'll enjoy hearing our thoughts.
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Anthology of Heroes Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anthology-of-heroes-history/id1513571349
Music featured in Anthology of Heroes segment:
The Ice Giants by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5745-the-ice-giants
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Anatomy of Fascism, Robert O. Paxton:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/128540/the-anatomy-of-fascism-by-robert-o-paxton/
Ur-Fascism, Umberto Eco
https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf
King Ottokar's Sceptre (French: Le Sceptre d'Ottokar) is the eighth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from August 1938 to August 1939. Hergé intended the story as a satirical criticism of the expansionist policies of Nazi Germany, in particular the annexation of Austria in March 1938 (the Anschluss). The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who travel to the fictional Balkan nation of Syldavia, where they combat a plot to overthrow the monarchy of King Muskar XII.
This mini bonus episode is a collaboration with the podcast Anthology of Heroes, which explores the lives of the national heroes of each nation. I’m a big fan of the podcast, and considering my older brother hosts it, I thought it would be very fun to see the national hero of Hergé’s fictional nation Syldavia get the same treatment.
You can find Anthology of Heroes here
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anthology-of-heroes-history/id1513571349
Music featured:
The Ice Giants by Kevin MacLeod
https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5745-the-ice-giants
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Join the community on Instagram @tintin.podcast and at facebook.com/RadioTintinPodcast.
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Check out latterature.com/Tintin for more behind-the-scenes Tintin goodies.
The Black Island (French: L'Île noire) is the seventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from April to November 1937. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who travel to England in pursuit of a gang of counterfeiters. Framed for theft and hunted by detectives Thomson and Thompson, Tintin follows the criminals to Scotland, discovering their lair on the Black Island.
Links to the songs sampled on this episode (and lots more tasty Tintin content) can be found on latterature.com/Tintin.
Songs sampled:
‘La Chanson de Tintin et Milou’ (The Song of Tintin and Snowy).Performed by Guy Revalde “and a chorus of friends of Tintin'“, 1959.
Composed by Jean Frederic and Maurice Monford.
‘Tintin Et La Toison D'Or’ (Tintin and the Golden Fleece).Isabelle Aubret (i); Les Criquets (ii), 1962.
Composed by Andrew Pop, Jean Frederic and Pierre Delanoe.
‘Notre Meilleur Copain C'est Tintin’ (Our Best Friend is Tintin).Martin Circus, 1979.
Composed by Gérard Blanc and Sylvain Pauchard.
‘Comme Tintin’ (Like Tintin).Chantal Goya, 1982.
Composed by Jean-Jacques Debout.
Check out www.latterature.com/tintin for lots of tasty Tintin tidbits and keep to date with the show on Instagram @tintin.podcast.
The Broken Ear is the sixth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from December 1935 to February 1937. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, as he searches for a South American fetish, identifiable by its broken right ear, and pursues thieves who have stolen it. In doing so, he ends up in the fictional nation of San Theodoros, where he becomes embroiled in a war and discovers the Arumbaya tribe deep in the forest.
And many more!
Yes, January 10th 2021 officially marks 92 years since Tintin first appeared in the pages of Le Petit Vingiteme, a fictional reporter “sent” by the real-world newspaper to investigate life in the Soviet Union Make sure you check out my podcast episodes on both Tintin’s first adventure and how the iconic character came to be.
While Tintin’s appearance and the nature of his adventures have changed over the years, his popularity is ever-enduring. Below, I’ve created a quick collage I made for the podcast’s Instagram page (@tintin.podcast) depicting some of his most notable adaptions across media.
I hope you’ll join me in wishing a very happy birthday to one of the most significant characters in the history of comics and the world’s only 92 year-old boy scout!
See you in 2021 with more podcast episodes!
—Gattsy
- Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1929)
- The Castafiore Emerald (1960)
- The Crab with the Golden Claws (stop-motion film, 1947)
- Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (animated film, 1969)
- The Adventures of Tintin (animated series, 1990-1991)
- Tintin: Destination Adventure (Windows/ Playstation, 2001)
- The Adventures of Tintin (animated film, 2011)
- Tintin Match (ios/ Android, 2020)
PS: I foolishly omitted Jean-Pierre Talbot, star of the live-action Tintin films of the 1960’s. Forgive me, Talbot fans.
Very exciting news, Tintinheads!
I recently uncovered some pages of a fanmade Tintin comic my younger brother made when he was about ten years old.
Will was a keen amateur comics artist when he was younger and I’ve previously reviewed his extensive Doctor Who comics on my Youtube Channel, but this is the only-known surviving entry from his Tintin series.
The story, which appears to be set in Australia, features many of the characters we’ve come to love, as well as the reappearance of one of the secret agents from Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. What exactly is he doing in Australia? I can’t tell you, as I can barely-understand what’s happening panel-to-panel.
I’ve arranged the pages as best I could, but I can only assume there are some previous pages missing as, Tintin appears to start off stranded on a boat, but I can’t confirm. When I asked Will for some context, he shrugged and responded, “Mate, who knows?”
Sources cited:
Assouline, Pierre, and Charles Ruas. Hergé : The Man Who Created Tintin. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Daubert, Michel, and Hergé . Tintin: the Art of Hergé. Abrams ComicArts, 2018.
Hergé. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets: Coloured Version. Editions Moulinsart, 2017.
Henley, Jon. “Was This the Man Who Inspired Tintin?” The Guardian, 7 Dec. 2010, www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/dec/07/man-who-inspired-tintin.
Maricq, Dominique. Hergé in His Own Words. Éditions Moulinsart, 2016.
Check out www.latterature.com/tintin for lots of tasty Tintin tidbits and keep to date with the show on Instagram @tintin.podcast.
The Blue Lotus is the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from August 1934 to October 1935 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1936. Continuing where the plot of the previous story, Cigars of the Pharaoh, left off, the story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are invited to China in the midst of the 1931 Japanese invasion, where he reveals the machinations of Japanese spies and uncovers a drug-smuggling ring.
Check out www.latterature.com/tintin for lots of tasty Tintin tidbits and keep to date with the show on Instagram @tintin.podcast.
Cigars of the Pharaoh is the fourth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from December 1932 to February 1934. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are travelling in Egypt when they discover a pharaoh's tomb filled with dead Egyptologists and boxes of cigars. Pursuing the mystery of these cigars, they travel across Arabia and India, and reveal the secrets of an international drug smuggling enterprise.
Visit latterature.com/tintin for more tasty Tintin tidbits, and follow tintin.podcast on Instagram for more updates about your favourite boy reporter.
Tintin in America is the third volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialized weekly from September 1931 to October 1932 before being published in a collected volume by Éditions du Petit Vingtième in 1932. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy who travel to the United States, where Tintin reports on organized crime in Chicago. Pursuing a gangster across the country, he encounters a tribe of Blackfoot Native Americans before defeating the Chicago crime syndicate.
Visit latterature.com/tintin for more tasty Tintin tidbits, and follow tintin.podcast on Instagram for more updates about your favourite boy reporter.
Tintin in the Congo (French: Tintin au Congo) is the second volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from May 1930 to June 1931 before being published in a collected volume by Éditions de Petit Vingtième in 1931. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are sent to the Belgian Congo to report on events in the country. Amid various encounters with the native Congolese people and wild animals, Tintin unearths a criminal diamond smuggling operation run by the American gangster Al Capone.
Visit latterature.com/tintin for more tasty Tintin tidbits, and follow tintin.podcast on Instagram for more updates about your favourite boy reporter.
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (French: Tintin au pays des Soviets) is the first volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle as anti-communist satire for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from January 1929 to May 1930 before being published in a collected volume by Éditions du Petit Vingtième in 1930. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are sent to the Soviet Union to report on the policies of Joseph Stalin's Bolshevik government. Tintin's intent to expose the regime's secrets prompts agents from the Soviet secret police, the OGPU, to hunt him down with the intent to kill.