From Ancient Rome to modern day Pizza Express, greed has always been a cornerstone of human society. Walk with us through the ages and have a look at greed through a political, sociological, historical and psychological lense. Join us in criticising and fantasising about wealth. Trigger warning for any Tories listening.
27 September 2020, 9:14 pm
34 minutes 25 seconds
GLUTTONY - 7 DEADLY SINS
As aficionados in both over sharing and over eating, who best to talk about Gluttony than us?! We critique those who would critique the idea of over indulgence, from medieval monks to Mancunian pubs. Come and feast your ears with us.
17 September 2020, 7:16 pm
37 minutes 51 seconds
LUST - 7 DEADLY SINS
Kitty and Dom return with a new series just in time for spooky season where they begin to look into the 7 deadly sins, referencing Dante’s Inferno.
The first on their list is LUST as they delve into the spiritual, physical and hormonal (oo-err) denominations of lust. We hear their own saucy views on relationships & the relationship between lust and shame.
15 September 2020, 7:16 pm
57 minutes 38 seconds
EPISODE 6 - STUFF AND THINGS (isolation edition)
The gruesome twosome return with some ideas for stuff and things you can read, listen to and do to distract from the current climate. Do ya damn thing and look after yourselves.
24 March 2020, 1:41 pm
1 hour 20 minutes
EPISODE 5 - TATTOOS
In this episode we have our first guest! The gorgeous and very informative Duke joins (and basically steers) us, Kitty swears loads and Dom is very drunk as we discuss the bleakest parts of being a tattooed person and give some heartfelt advice. You, yeah you with the little infinity symbol tattoo, we are talking about you!
19 November 2019, 8:42 pm
1 hour 12 minutes
EPISODE 4 - HALLOWEEN
After a break that entailed a shiny new job, even shinier ring and a poll - Mock The Bleak returns (at your request) to have some fun at the expense of Halloween.
Expect ungrateful kids, haunted chairs, terrible films and poison sweets as we mock the bleak and revel in the good aspects of Halloween.
17 October 2019, 7:57 pm
38 minutes 38 seconds
EPISODE 3 - TRANSPHOBIA (probably part 1 of many)
Kitty & Dom are back to discuss Transphobia with particular attention to TERFs and other such nasties.
With this in mind, we do belief this will be a two-parter (at least) but we wanted to cover aspects that as cis-people we could comment on until we can hopefully be joined by one of our trans* pals who can shed more (and better) insight.
As always we are here to educate, not offend (unless you’re a TERF) and we also realise the multifaceted nature of this issue and do not feel that we have covered all bases in this episode.
18 August 2019, 9:41 pm
48 minutes 36 seconds
EPISODE 2 - PRIDE
In this episode, our dire duo Kitty & Dom in honour of Pride Month discuss attending pride, gay mom advice, expectation vs. reality & rainbow capitalism.
5 June 2019, 8:24 pm
45 minutes 15 seconds
EPISODE 1 - COMING OUT
Mock The Bleak - Host Kitty Calderbank discusses the bleakest aspects of LGBT+ life with relevant guests providing humour, empathy and advice.
EPISODE 1 - COMING OUT.
Kitty & her guest (and partner) Dominic discuss the topic of coming out. Is it necessary? Or is it as pointless as the M&S LGBT sarnie?