Discover your next favourite book, or take a deep dive into the mind of an author you love, with The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast. Long-form interviews with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded from our bookshop in the heart of Paris. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director, Adam Biles. Discover all our upcoming events here. If you enjoy these conversations, you can order The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews here. Past guests include: Ottessa Moshfegh, Ian McEwan, Ali ...
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Entertaining, thrilling and uplifting the Putney Theatre Company's dedicated podcast features show reviews, interviews with directors, cast and crew, and feedback from our wonderful audiences. We're a regional theatre working with the community to encourage new writing, new actors, offering fresh perspectives and familiar drama. Come and see us at the South West End!
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The channel for the Award-Winning Maverick Theatre Company and their London Literary Pub Crawl productions and Resonance 104.4FM Radio shows. General theatre and literary news from London, England.
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We read to exist, therefore we read to resist. The Feminist Book Club (Paris) is a book club that meets every month at Shakespeare and Company bookshop, Paris.
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We will be starting up our podcast again soon... Stay tuned Baltimore Shakespeare Factory recreates, as closely as is possible, the staging conditions, spirit, and atmosphere created by Shakespeare’s theatre company during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. http://baltimoreshakespearfactory.org
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Welcome to One Hale of a Conversation where your host, James Hale, talks with Artists, Actors, and Creatives, trying to understand both where they come from, and how they tick. Join Us!
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A Podcast from the Manchester Shakespeare Company with information on past, present and future work with writer John Topliff and Director Gina T. Frost.
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Good plays, good music, good stories, good reviews and good interviews from the artists of The Drilling Company, New York’s premier independent theatre company creating new work, and FREE Shakespeare in Manhattan since 1999.
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Local bloggers cover the Orlando International Fringe Festival and other theatrical goings-on in Central Florida.
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Each week a current Royal Shakespeare Company actor or creative interviews an artist who has inspired them. Grab your interval drink, sit back and find out more. The music is ‘Oberon’s Theme – King of Shadows’, originally composed by Sam Kenyon for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016).
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A podcast from Island Shakespeare Festival featuring short stories and conversation inspired by Shakespeare's canon and the lives of theatre people. Stories written by Scott Kaiser (he/him) and read by ISF company members.
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Go behind the scenes at Bard in the Botanics, Scotland's premier Shakespeare company. Join us - and a host of actors, directors, designers and more - for some entertaining and revealing chat about our work, our approach to Shakespeare and the joys and perils of staging outdoor theatre in Scotland!
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After traveling on business for 30 years, what was I going to do after I sold my company in 2013? Answer: Travel more, but to the off-the-beaten-track and obscure places on planet Earth. After visiting almost 100 countries and living in 5 countries, I officially became a Travel Addict. Today, I am contracted by various Cruise Lines to perform enrichment and educational lectures to passengers on various journeys around the World. A podcast or two will be published from time to time when I am ...
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In-depth conversations with the world's top directors, performers and writers for the stage.
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Midsommer Flight, a Chicago theatre company dedicated to producing high quality, accessible productions in Chicago communities, invites you to join Chicago actors Julian Stroop and Margaret Kellas on an audio tour of Shakespeare in Chicago. They cover everything from text work and history to modern day practice and current trends for Shakespeare nerds and newbies alike. Enjoy performances and interviews from guest artists and some new perspectives on some very old plays. Also stay up to date ...
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Rough Magic Performance Company is a professional theater company focused on supporting women artists, audiences, and stories; we strive to embrace the complexities and diversity of women’s experiences from classics to contemporary work while promoting artistic excellence and community engagement.
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Rough Magic is Seattle Shakespeare Company’s podcast exploring ideas, stories, and interviews related to the world of theatre…specifically classical theatre.The format may change and emerge as the program grows. Some weeks we’ll feature a series exploring a specific theme or topic, other times we might present an original audio story that drew inspiration from Shakespeare. Or, we might just check in with artists to get their thoughts on a play, a role, or a dream project. The canvas is wide ...
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The Shakespeare podcast Shakespeare would have listened to!* This weekly podcast comes in several flavors. Every other week, you'll get our regular episode features a lightning round on several intersections of Shakespeare and the present day, an underused Shakespearian phrase that you can roll into your everyday conversation to impress/annoy your friends, and a homework assignment currently being blown off by a lazy high school student from the internet. Once a month, we offer SO YOU'RE GOI ...
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Welcome to the Unbound Theatre Podcast! Here you’ll find the latest audio projects from award-winning storytelling company Unbound Theatre, presented by (and based at) Queens Park Arts Centre. The podcast spans all manner of titles, including AudioVerse Award winner (Best Storyteller – Erika Sanderson) ‘The Chronicles of Professor Chronomier’, sleuthing sitcom ‘Inspector Murder Inspects…’ and our epic ‘Sounds & Sweet Airs’ project, which aims to bring the complete works of Shakespeare to the ...
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Lantern Theatre is a professional theatre company based out of Dana Point, California. Our theatre focuses on experimental, absurdist and post-structuralist works, with the mission of advancing theatre and developing new forms of storytelling for the stage. "City of Dana," our original, made-for-podcast, theatrical comedy series, features stories that take place at the intersection of science and art. The series provides us a chance to showcase various up-and-coming playwrights who share Lan ...
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Every story is a crossroads. A diverse company of Chicago artists produces new audio dramas—recorded live—and stages freewheeling audience conversations about them. Led by Founder and Executive Producer Jeremy McCarter, Make-Believe shares suspenseful, moving, hilarious stories, and tries to discover how they shape our world.
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This brand new poetry podcast began as a fun experiment between two like-minded artists who share a passion for music, verse and prose, one another's company, and the occasional Cote du Rhone. Intended to cover a variety of inspiring and compelling themes, it begins with pieces devoted to New York City, and continues on to some of the great male speeches of Shakespeare. Composer and conductor Daniela Candillari creates an original score set to recitation performed by Theatre and Film actress ...
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On "ADD Comedy with Dave Razowsky,” guests from the worlds of comedy, theatre, film, television, and literature discuss their journeys and life philosophies with podcast host David Razowsky. David’s an alum of The Second City Chicago where he performed with Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris and numerous others. He’s the former artistic director of The Second City Hollywood, is a member of The Reduced Shakespeare Company, served as a consultant for Dreamworks, and taught for Steppenw ...
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Whether you were the only girl on the football team, the only jock at robotics camp, or you just could never find anyone who appreciated your action figures enough, we’ve all felt like the weird kid at some point in our lives. Join comedians Carly Montag and Emily Walsh as they ask their guests about any time in life they felt like the odd one out. New episodes out every Monday!
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The Secret Life of Writers is a series of rambling conversations with some of the world’s most interesting and visionary writers and creative icons about how they got where they are, what they’re working on now, and how they balance art and life. These warm and personal interviews take you behind-the-scenes of the writing world. Hosted by Jemma Birrell, formerly of the Sydney Writers' Festival and Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and now the Creative Director at Tablo. Subscribe to hear a new ...
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In seventeenth century Venice, a wealthy and debauched man discovers that the woman he is infatuated with is secretly married to a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He shares his grief and rage with a lowly ensign in the army who also has reason to hate the general for promoting a younger man above him. The villainous ensign now plots to destroy the noble general in a diabolical scheme of jealousy, paranoia and murder, set against the backdrop of the bloody Turkish-Venetian wars. This ti ...
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"Really excellent...insightful, personal, experiential, direct..." Gary Weber, Happiness Beyond Thought. The truly inspirational and utterly magnificent podcast series on spirituality and the cultural arts by The Poetry Of Illusion. A veritable feast. 14 episodes of literary and artistic magic!" The Culturium. "Utterly unique, intensely riveting and deeply profound podcast series. Highly recommended." Paula Marvelly, writer and filmmaker. "I feel at home listening to these podcasts, a world ...
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Three career academics discuss the current and future role of humanities in higher education.
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Cardigan Internet Radio presents The Climate Resilience Show with your host Jim Bowen. Every Thursday from 5-6pm, the show, based in West Wales, covers topics relating to climate resilience across the world. https://cardiganinternetradio.wales/ClimateResilienceShow/
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What do you get when you join a CPA and an #Improv #comedian on a #Business #Travel #Podcast ? Subscribe #ApplePodcast to #RamblingBusiness . http://ow.ly/Mm5d305iwvR www.RamblingBusiness.com
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Why is today called Thursday? Who came up with the word Gazebo? What is the meaning of your name? These are all questions we will answer on every episode of History Of Words, a podcast about etymology and history.
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Last week we were joined by the wonderful Sheila Heti to celebrate the launch of her Alphabetical Diaries. In taking a decade of her journals, sorting the sentences alphabetically, then paring them down to about a tenth of their original length, Sheila Heti has freed a slice of her life from the shackles of time and in doing so has extracted some o…
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Diversity & Inclusion professional Solene Anglaret describes her life overseas for the past 12 years
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Born and raised in France, Solene has lived abroad for over 12 years - in Norway, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and Australia. Her passion for travel has also led her to visit more than 58 different countries so far. Day-to-day, she works in diversity and inclusion as Programme Lead for Disabled Innovators for the UK's government ag…
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Bangarra looks to the horizon for its first cross-cultural collaboration
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Perhaps no dance company has done more to expand the horizons of Australian audiences than Bangarra Dance Theatre. Now they expand those horizons further, presenting their first mainstage cross-cultural collaboration. Horizon includes work choreographed by Deborah Brown, a descendent of the Wakaid Clan and Meriam people in the Torres Strait, with M…
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S4 Ep13: Alone Being a Church Organist with Dan Frank
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This week we are joined by Dan Frank! Dan Frank is a standup comedian who has been featured at the Tiny Cupboard Penthouse Festival, GEM Fest, PN & Friends, and toured for the musical/comedy act Queer MF across the Southwest/West Coasts. His comedy mostly deals with his family, his experiences from pretending to be straight, and how everyone thinks…
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William Shakespeare's plays feature witchcraft, murder, ghosts and bloody revenge. Are his displays of blood and gore simply meant to entertain us or do they have more to say about the human condition? Wherefore, Shakespeare? is a series that explores the dilemmas, conflicts, and controversies in Shakespeare's major plays. In our third instalment, …
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'I've had this career against all odds' — Bonachela's twisted path to Sydney Dance
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A childhood love of dance and a challenging homelife drove Rafael Bonachela to leave his native Spain at just 17 years old and seek his fortune in the dance studios and theatres of London. The celebrated choreographer was then beckoned to Australia, where he has led the Sydney Dance Company since 2009. Also, in The Audition, we meet a group of asyl…
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S4 Ep12: Alone Reading at the Breakfast Table with Ruth Ware
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This week we are joined by Ruth Ware! Ruth Ware is an international number one bestseller. Her thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, The Death of Mrs Westaway, The Turn of the Key, One by One, The It Girl and Zero Days have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the Sunday Times and New York Times,…
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Capturing the essence of elopements for couples around the world
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Zephyr et Luna’s founder, Ambre Peyrotty, captures the essence of elopements through nature’s unique light, crafting award-winning photography that preserves each moment in its most authentic and radiant form. With a background in travel agency and guiding, Amber brings unrivaled insight to orchestrate dream elopements, seamlessly blending explorat…
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BONUS: Celebrating Dylan Thomas with Cerys Matthews…with exclusive live music from Flora Hibberd!
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To celebrate Dylan Thomas Day 2024 we’re delighted to share this recording of our recent event with award-winning songwriter, author and broadcaster Cerys Matthews. The evening also featured live music from Flora Hibberd and her band, including a brand new song composed for this evening. Enjoy! More from Cerys Matthews: Out of Chaos Comes Bliss: ht…
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From Europe to the USA, this Australian theatre company keeps on winning
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For decades, Australia's Back to Back Theatre has been delighting audiences with shows performed and devised by an ensemble of artists who are neurodivergent or living with a disability. Following their most recent major international award win, we visit the ensemble at their Geelong headquarters as they rehearse their new show: Multiple Bad Things…
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S4 Ep11: Alone Being a Voice Actor with Imogen Church
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This week we are joined by Imogen Church! Imogen is the voice of some of your favorite audiobooks! She trained as an actress at The Drama Centre London, has worked extensively in theatre, film, commercials, comedy sketch work, and works regularly as a voice artist! Imogen is also the author of Audible Original “Death and the Burlesque Maiden” and “…
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Viet Thanh Nguyen on Memory, Migration and Model Minorities
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A few weeks ago, we welcomed Pulitzer Prizewinner Viet Thanh Nguyen to Shakespeare and Company to discuss his engrossing new work A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial, a book about family, and memory, and storytelling, and history, on all the levels that it impacts upon a life. Buy A Man of Two Faces here: https://www.shakespeareandc…
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Cast preview with Debra Bond ( Laura) and Des Healy (Danny). Interviewed by Cait they discuss the themes and drama of David Eldridges powerful play Beginning, directed by Ben Clare. Laura's thrown a housewarming party at her new flat. Danny is the last man standing. It's meant to be isn't it? Or is it? They're both single. They both really like eac…
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Audra McDonald & Jason Robert Brown — Tony-winning Broadway icons
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It's Tony season on Broadway and this week we have two major figures of American theatre who have won nine Tony Awards between them: Audra McDonald and Jason Robert Brown. Performer Audra McDonald is currently on a concert tour of Australia. Her first Tony Award came for her breakthrough role in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel and she's added five…
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S4 Ep10: Alone Writing Thrillers with a Twist with Gillian McAllister
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This week we are joined by Gillian McAllister! Gillian McAllister is a British Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author, known for seven novels, several of which have been top ten bestsellers. Her works have been translated into 40 languages. She has been selected for the Reese Witherspoon book club, the Richard and Judy book club, the Ra…
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Nick Hennegan plays requests from his world-wide audience featuring poetry and music from Dylan Thomas, Cerys Mathews, Robb Williams and Romeo and Juliet! www.BohemianBritain.comBy Nick Hennegan
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Simon Burke's wonderful (and Wicked) 50 years in the footlights
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Simon Burke is one of Australia's most cherished entertainers. 2024 marks his 50th year performing on stage. He made his professional stage debut at just 12 years old and shortly after won an AFI Award for his performance in Fred Schepisi's film The Devil's Playground. He's since become renowned as a musical theatre performer, having had major role…
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S4 Ep9: Alone Being a Body Positive and Anti-Diet Comedian with Lauren Hope Krass
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This week we are joined by Lauren Hope Krass! Comedian Lauren Hope Krass got her start in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina. There, she performed improv and stand-up regularly at Theatre 99 and all over the city. What's especially unique about Lauren is her ability to put a body positive spin on jokes while remaining cuttingly hilari…
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What does it mean to defy the conventions and test the boundaries of gender? These are questions posed by some of Shakespeare's most famous characters. Wherefore, Shakespeare? is a series that explores the dilemmas, conflicts, and controversies in Shakespeare's major plays. In our second instalment, we place gender in the spotlight. We're joined by…
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Two Humans and a Dog - Travel adventures, Shakespeare and Folklore
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This is about Lauren, husband Jon and their dog Belka, who are living an adventurous life mixed in with a few variations of lifestyle every now and again. In Lauren's own words: "My proudest travel moments include taking a student expedition team to Ecuador. Having treated herself to a trip of the Trans-Siberian railroad for my 30th birthday, I am …
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Celebrating Shakespeare's Birthday, Nick Hennegan talks about his links to the Bard and features speeches by the classic actors Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud and music from 'Shakespeare In Love.' www.BohemianBritain.comBy Nick Hennegan
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The Travel Addict on a speaking gig around the Caribbean. Added bonus - an explanation of cricket inside 3 minutes
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Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, Tobago, Curacao, Bonaire, Aruba, and Dominican Republic. Culturally diverse, but each of these islands have their own history and personality. Collectively, the Travel Addict had 5 education talks to perform and in addition, by special request from a few pssengers, they wanted to hear an explanation of the rules of cri…
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Ottessa Moshfegh on bringing Eileen to the screen
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A few weeks ago we welcomed Ottessa Moshfegh to Shakespeare and Company. That night we’re headed almost back to where it all began by revisiting Moshfegh’s second book Eileen, the small town noir that propelled this experimental writer into the bestseller charts and onto the Booker shortlist. Eileen has just been adapted into a Hollywood film—direc…
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After a celebrated Ring Cycle, a director ventures to Lammermoor
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Suzanne Chaundy is one of Australia's most in-demand directors of opera. Last year, she had the triumph of a lifetime with her direction of opera's most daunting challenge: Wagner's Ring Cycle. Now she's back with another big opera, Lucia di Lammermoor at the Melbourne Opera. So, what does it take to direct an opera? Also, in Lose to Win, which ope…
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S4 Ep8: Alone Writing The Vera Kelly Series with Rosalie Knecht
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This week we are joined by Rosalie Knecht! Rosalie Knecht is the author of Relief Map, Who is Vera Kelly? and Vera Kelly is not a Mystery, an Edgar Award winner and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, as well as Vera Kelly Lost and Found, published June 2022. She is the translator of Cesar Aira's The Seamstress and the Wind. Make sure to chec…
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Celebrating Nick Hornby, Lord Byron and the Birth of Frankenstein!
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Nick Hennegan celebrates a birthday and a deathday! Nick Hornby and Lord Byron! And plays music from the acclaimed theatre production, inspired by Byron and Shelly's time in Greece - 'The Birth of Frankenstein' by Robb Williams. www.BohemianBritain.comBy Nick Hennegan
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Ex-Flight Attendant Autumn Carolynn expands her horizon in the travel business to focus on photography
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Autumn Carolynn recently had a goal to visit 30 countries within 30 years. Throughout her time traveling, she kept an on-going journal of all her travels and when reaching that goal, she created a book called "Traveling in Wonder". It was launched in February 24th, 2024. She was a previously a flight attendant, travel agent, travel design manager, …
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'I didn't want sangría and bulls' — A timeless and brutal Carmen
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Choreographer Johan Inger's first narrative work is a radically contemporary take on Carmen, which employs Bizet's famous score but draws on the confronting violence of Mérimée's original novella for its story. The ballet earned the Prix Benois de la Danse and is now being presented by The Australian Ballet. Also, Victor Hugo's novel about an orpha…
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S4 Ep7: Alone Mashing Up Historical Fiction and Magical Realism with Sarah Penner
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This week we are joined by Sarah Penner! Sarah Penner is the author of two novels, The London Séance Society and The Lost Apothecary. Penner’s debut novel, The Lost Apothecary, has sold over one million copies, was on the USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists for 3 months, and was a book of the year top 5 finalist. The London Séance Soci…
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Wordsworth, Heaney... and McCartney and Wings!
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Nick Hennegan celebrates a number of creative events this week from William Wordsworth, Seamus Heaney... and Paul McCartney and Wings... www.BohemianBritain.comBy Nick Hennegan
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James Hale sits down with actor, stage manager, and director Rob Bradvica as he discusses growing up in San Diego, wearing many different creative hats in New York, and how his cast members shaped him...literally… Social Media: @robertlbradvica One Hale of a Conversation is brought to you by MAD Company, a non-profit theatre company located in NYC.…
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Percival Everett on James, his subversive reimagining of Huckleberry Finn
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James—the new novel by Percival Everett—retells, reframes, and reimagines Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the black man whose flight from slavery quickly entangles with the journey of Huck, on the run after faking his own death to escape his violent father. James gives us the events of Twain’s picaresque…
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