Your deadicated hosts enter 1960 with a bang! It's THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS from director John Gilling, a Burke and Hare true crime movie starring Peter Cushing, George Rose and Donald Pleasence!

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 25:59; Discussion 36:19; Ranking 59:36

Scream Scene Podcast

Episode 287 - Welcome to 1960

Body Count

You’ve got those guys, your Burke and Hare,
Would steal a body from anywhere
And sell it to that Doctor Knox —
Who wants a cure for social pox.

Each corpse is prized, each body count,
No putrefaction, no amount 
Will satisfy the open graves
The kind of place the vengeful crave.

Chorus
Netanyahu’s on a role, 
We know that he has sold his soul
There’s talk about his genocide —
They’ve got a place where he can hide!
And all those kids he’s burned to death,
The body count it ain’t in yet,
They say they’re martyrs, and that’s nice,
I see them as a sacrifice.

The ghoul the golem from the skies
That melts the heart and melts the eyes
And all the limbs nobody owns:
The bits of flesh and bits of bones.

All body meat fries in the heat —
With pain and loss each life’s replete
Young or old, it’s all the same
Death comes with its bombs and flames.

Chorus
Netanyahu’s on a role, 
We know he has sold his soul
There’s talk about his genocide —
They’ve got a place where he can hide!
And all those kids he’s burned to death
The body count it ain’t in yet
They say they’re martyrs, and that’s nice,
I see them as a sacrifice. 

You’ve got to count the real estate,
When it’s all cleared, won’t it be great?
A beach-front property of choice,
They’ll get it cheap, won’t that be nice!

— Frank Callery

Body Count

When Fettes was a young medical student he studied under the notorious Mr K. Robert Louis Stevenson's short story The Body Snatcher is based on the notorious Burke and Hare 'grave robbing' case in 1820s Edinburgh. This version is abridged and adapted for audio, but stays close to the original.. 

Complete adapted text & audio free to access here: https://medium.com/best-short-stories/the-body-snatcher-by-robert-louis-stevenson-part-one-b112c2e3f8ad
Teaching materials, including links to complete text (original & adapted) audio & activities here: https://www.eslreading.org/the_body_snatcher.html

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