Best Drabble Podcasts (2025)

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Podcast Repost: NP97 – Kids Love Skulls!

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Welcome to Nostalgia Pilots! This week, Jason, Jurd, Spence, and Hugh discuss Mobile Fighter G Gundam epsiode 34: “Stand Up Domon! Raging Tag Team Match!” This episode: Schwartz does some ninja stuff, Master Asia conducts a police investigation using his fists, and Neo Malaysia’s Gala Garla has the haircut of the future! Plus, Allenby’s team hasn’t…

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James Ivory 43:26

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James Ivory formed the filmmaking company Merchant Ivory with producer Ismail Merchant and the writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala in 1961. The company went on to produce over 40 films and became synonymous with a particular sumptuous movie genre in the 80s and 90s, often adapted from literary classics. Merchant Ivory won awards and acclaim for A Room With…

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🔒 Adventures in Highgate Cemetery 14:06

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Subscriber-only episode Send us a text This week’s episode was born out of Amy’s recent visit to London’s Highgate Cemetery, where fortuitous timing (or, perhaps, the graveside spirit of Christina Rossetti?) revealed a bit of juicy family drama. Find out why the tragic death (and later exhumation) of a pre-Raphaelite muse left another family member…

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Isabel Allende 43:27

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Chilean author Isabel Allende became an international literary star after the publication of her 1982 debut novel The House Of the Spirits, an epic family saga set amidst violent political upheavals. Since then she has written 21 novels and five works of non-fiction, and has sold over 80 million copies worldwide. Isabel Allende tells John Wilson ab…

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Drabblecast 498 – The Sol Searching Fool 23:26

5d ago23:26

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A lesson on loneliness on this week’s Drabblecast– an original story by Arasibo Campeche called “The Sol Searching Fool.” Arasibo Campeche (he/him)”Arasibo is originally from Puerto Rico and has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics. He writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror that’s often inspired by scientific principles. His work has appeare…

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Hiatus Replay: Ukrainian Poet Lesya Ukrainka’s The Forest Song 16:25

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Send us a text In this week's hiatus replay, we’re focusing on one of Ukraine’s best-known poets and playwrights, Laryssa Kosach, who wrote under the pen name Lesya Ukrainka. Her play The Forest Song is a masterpiece of Ukrainian drama. Discussed in this episode: The Forest Song by Lesya Ukrainka Looking for Trouble by Virginia Cowles Lost Ladies o…

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s03e10 - Sequels III 1:00:15

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A flash-fiction podcast where a handful of writers create an original story with a limited wordcount in a limited amount of time. In this episode we put a hat on a hat and write sequels to each other's stories. The stories are: 'Changes' by Amelia Armande, a sequel to 'Raising a Child' by Joshua Crisp. 'Breathless' by Joshua Crisp, an homage to 'At…

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🔒 Simona Kossak, Forest Queen 16:02

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Subscriber-only episode Send us a text Once upon a time, a young woman escaped to a primeval forest, befriended the animals there (including a lynx, raven and wild boar) and met her handsome prince. Sounds like a fairy tale, but in this week’s episode Amy discusses the enchanting true story of Simona Kossak, a Polish scientist who wrote about her d…

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s03eXX - Christmas Special 2024 (Spoggle Page 1) 26:04

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A flash-fiction podcast where a handful of writers create an original story with a limited wordcount in a limited amount of time. In this episode we run the 100 Word Cycle backwards to make three alternate first pages of a story yet to be written. The REAL Page 1 will be decided by the will of you, the listener! Cast your votes immediately. The sto…

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Alba de Céspedes — Forbidden Notebook with Joy Castro 49:02

21d ago49:02

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Send us a text Novelist and university professor Joy Castro returns to the show to discuss the 1952 novel Forbidden Notebook by Cuban-Italian writer Alba de Cespedes. In a New York Times review of a 1958 English edition of this novel, de Céspedes was called “one of the few distinguished women writers since Colette to grapple effectively with what i…

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Will a Golden Bachelorette give Andy a rose? 27:18

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Join author and former Seinfeld writer Andy Cowan, along with AI Dr. K and their cast of unreal supporting players, as Andy laments waiting endlessly on the phone for a representative and off the phone for that big break. And discover why sports fans are blissfully unaware of their problems, the inside scoop on auditioningfor CNN anchor, and “so mu…

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🔒 Literary Rx — Books to Beat the Doldrums 24:25

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Subscriber-only episode Send us a text Books are a time-tested cure-all, so in this week’s bonus episode Amy weighs a few of the titles that have helped her forget life's latest troubles and doubts … (sort of). She leaves no stone unturned in her quest for distraction, from Proust’s meandering sentences to a behind-the-scenes memoir about a beloved…

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Drabblecast 497- The Goat Wife

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This week on the Drabblecast- a melancholy story about loss, abandonment, and the perils of old magic. Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Rhysling-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra’s work haunts publications such as Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, F&SF, Podcastle, Asimov’s, Vastarien, and Recko…

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Zitkála-Šá — "The School Days of an Indian Girl" with Jessi Haley and Erin Marie Lynch 42:48

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Send us a text At the age of eight, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (later known by her pen name Zitkála-Šá) left her Yankton Dakota reservation to attend a missionary boarding school for Native Americans, a harsh and abusive experience about which she eventually wrote a series of articles published in The Atlantic Monthly. Jessi Haley, editorial director …

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🔒 A Christmas Tale From Christina Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses 20:14

2M ago20:14

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Subscriber-only episode Send us a text Forget your troubles, get cozy, grab a cup of tea and curl up to this week’s “storytime” bonus episode as Amy reads the third tale from Christina Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses. Follow Rossetti’s indefatigable heroine, Maggie, who trudges wearily through a snowy forest at Christmas-time, encountering along the…

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s03e09 - Homages III (Phonecall) 36:38

2M ago36:38

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A flash-fiction podcast where a handful of writers create an original story with a limited wordcount in a limited amount of time. In this episode we scream tributes to each other's stories down the phone in a playground. The stories are: 'Syracuse' by Amelia Armande, an homage to 'Carnival Showdown' by Joshua Crisp. 'You’re just not trying hard eno…

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Drabblecast 496 – Sundays with Pop-Pop

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Stop asking so many damn questions. Come and listen to the newest weird story from Pop-Pop. He’s got something important to tell you. Zachary Olson(he/him) is a freelance writer and composer from Phoenix, Arizona currently residing in Chicago. Updates on his work can be found on Twitter @obfuscatingGod and here. Steve Lillie Find them here: […]…

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Christina Rossetti — Speaking Likenesses with Bond & Grace's Ayana Christie 38:42

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Send us a text Charmed by her friend Lewis Carroll’s children’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Victorian poet Christina Rossetti followed suit nearly a decade later with her own children’s book — one that alludes to the “Alice” tale while also offering a more clear-eyed view of girls’ duties, even in topsy-turvy dream worlds. Ayana Christie…

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🔒 Virginia Woolf, Fashion Icon 18:06

2M ago18:06

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Subscriber-only episode Send us a text When it comes to this year’s fall fashion, Virginia Woolf is having a moment. A number of designers and brands including Anna Sui, Clare Waight Keller, Miu Miu, Burberry and Tod’s have found their inspiration in the iconic Bloomsbury author. In this week’s bonus episode, Amy dives into this sartorial vibe, rea…

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Episode 10 - Courtroom Success with Arias Sanguinetti (feat. Mike Arias) 25:35

2M ago25:35

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On this second special CAOC Convention episode of Just Us for Justice Podcast, host J.G. Preston brings in former CAOC President and founding partner of Arias Sanguinetti Mike Arias to talk about mass torts and the many trials and settlements the law firm has been involved with. The partners of Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Team, LLP (Arias Sanguinetti)…

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Margaret Drabble — The Millstone with Carrie Mullins 36:50

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Send us a text Margaret Drabble’s 1965 novel The Millstone offers a nuanced portrayal of single motherhood in 1960s London. Author Carrie Mullins, whose 2024 nonfiction work The Book of Mothers explores literary depictions of motherhood, joins us to discuss Drabble’s fearless protagonist, Rosamund. Together, we explore how The Millstone captures th…

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Thelma Schoonmaker 43:55

2M ago43:55

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Thelma Schoonmaker has, for over five decades, been Martin Scorsese’s cutting room collaborator. Having edited his first feature film in 1967, she has worked on every Scorsese movie since Raging Bull, including Goodfellas, Casino, The Departed, Wolf Of Wall Street, right up to his most recent features The Irishman and Killers Of The Flower Moon. As…

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🔒 Wicked Little Letters — The Film and Crime That Inspired It 14:01

2M ago14:01

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Subscriber-only episode Send us a text In this week’s bonus episode Amy discusses the black comedy mystery film Wicked Little Letters starring Olivia Coleman and Jessie Buckley, then hones in on the real-life "poison-pen letter" incident the film is based on. Mentioned in this episode: British Airways in-flight safety film Wicked Little Letters tra…

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Podcast Repost: CCRC85 – Ace Ventura: Pet Detective S3E1 – Witch’s Brew

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Tonight your hosts, Hugh, Rich the Time Traveller, Opop, and Jurd, make a Halloween mistake. [CCR Feed: RSS/iTunes | Skinner Co.: RSS/iTunes] Chrononaut Cinema Reviews is presented by https://www.skinner.fm and http://hughjodonnell.com, and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.…

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Episode 9 - Chatting it Up With ChartSquad (feat. Melanie Carpenter) 8:26

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On this special CAOC Convention episode of Just Us for Justice Podcast, host J.G. Preston brings in ChartSquad founder Melanie Carpenter to talk about what the business offers and how it was formed. ChartSquad is the industry leader in medical record retrieval, management, and portability. As a Personal Health Record (PHR), ChartSquad allows patien…

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s03e08 - Rockhoppers 40:51

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A flash-fiction podcast where a handful of writers create an original story with a limited wordcount in a limited amount of time. In this episode we march, smash and waddle our way through a pelican police state. The stories are: 'The Bill' by Amelia Armande, 'Rainbow (A gracious covenant with man and beast)' by Joshua Crisp, 'Battersea Power Diffe…

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Bill Nighy 42:51

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A star of stage and screen, Bill Nighy has enjoyed a fifty year career and is now among Britain’s most prolific and much loved actors. Acclaimed for National Theatre roles in plays by David Hare and Tom Stoppard, his popular appeal lies with scene-stealing appearances in films including Pirates Of The Caribbean, Harry Potter and, most famously, Lov…

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Elizabeth Garver Jordan — The Case of Lizzie Borden & Other Writings with Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan 41:27

3M ago41:27

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Send us a text Elizabeth Garver Jordan’s riveting coverage of the Lizzie Borden trial for The New York World captivated true-crime junkies of the late 19th-century, and her lengthy career as a journalist, fiction writer and literary editor still resonates today. Lori Harrison-Kahan and Jane Carr, editors of a brand new collection of Garver Jordan’s…

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Drabblecast 495 – Jared Chapel’s The First Car Ballet 22:37

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Lights! Wheels! Wipers! Curtain! This week, a marvel of machines and carbureted choreography awaits you. Kay Vaindal (they/she) is a coastal ecologist and weird fiction writer. Her work has appeared in Seize the Press, Dark Matter, and anthologies including This World Belongs to Us and Death’s Other Kingdom: Horror Tales of WWI. Find them here. […]…

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Julie Taymor 43:20

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Theatre, opera and film director Julie Taymor is regarded as one of the most imaginative directors and designers working today. Her stage version of the Lion King is the highest grossing show in Broadway history, having made nearly $2 billion, and it recently marked its 25th year in London. The Lion King Julie two Tony Awards, including for best di…

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The Next Generation of The Neurotic Vaccine! 32:32

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Join author and former Seinfeld writer Andy Cowan, along with AI Dr. K and a new cast of unreal supporting players, as Andy confronts his own loneliness epidemic and navigates one of his lifelong fears, change, by seeking therapy from someone you’ve known your entire life. And don't miss Bad Dateline! Loneliness news nagging [3:25] Good reasons to …

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🔒 Blame it on the Bob (Haircut) 15:13

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Subscriber-only episode Send us a text The bob haircut shocked and appalled when it was popularized in the 1920s. A bob devotee herself, Amy has a laugh in this week’s bonus episode as she reads newspaper reports from the era which blame the hair trend for a wide array of societal ills including economic collapse, bigamy and unwanted facial hair. S…

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Hanif Kureishi 43:38

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Novelist, playwright and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi's first screenplay, My Beautiful Launderette brought him Oscar and BAFTA nominations in 1985. Five years later his debut novel The Buddha Of Suburbia, set amidst the social divisions of mid 70’s Britain, became a bestseller and was adapted as a BBC television series. After eleven screenplays incl…

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Sanora Babb — Whose Names Are Unknown with Iris Jamahl Dunkle 43:56

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Send us a text Growing up on the Great Plains and witnessing the struggles of migrant workers in California made Sanora Babb uniquely qualified to write the story of the Dust Bowl. Her novel Whose Names Are Unknown was slated for publication by Random House in 1939 until The Grapes of Wrath beat her book to the punch. John Steinbeck actually used B…

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Drabblecast 494 – Trifecta: The Sherman Evening Post 24:27

3M ago24:27

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You have a ring on your door bell, and laid on your stoop is a brown papered parcel, tied with damp twine. You bring the package inside, noticing that the sky is tinged a weird green. You smell burning hair. You pull the ends of the twine, which is warm and wet and reminds you […]By Norm Sherman

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Nile Rodgers 43:11

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Nile Rodgers is one of the most successful and influential figures in popular music. As a songwriter, producer and arranger he has enjoyed a 50 year career with his bands Chic and Sister Sledge, and collaborations with artists including Diana Ross, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Madonna, Daft Punk and Beyoncé. Bringing his 1959 Fender Stratocaster guita…

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Podcast Repost: NP96 – A Funky British Gentleman

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Welcome to Nostalgia Pilots! This week, Hugh, Jason, Jurd and Spence discuss Mobile Fighter G Gundam Episode 33: Emisary of Darkness! Chapman Rises Again! In this episode: Princess Marie-Louise does a bit of light kidnapping, gets bored halfway through, and wanders off to witness… a murder!? With the Princess’s life on the line, George faces off ag…

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🔒 How a "Lady of Lit" Inspired the Band Green Day 9:22

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Subscriber-only episode Send us a text Look closely enough, and you can find “lost ladies of lit” almost anywhere — including at a rock concert! In this week’s bonus episode, Amy explains how a Saturday night spent attempting to sing along with Green Day on their world tour concert stop in Los Angeles started her down a lyrical rabbit hole that led…

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Margaret Drabble 43:15

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The novelist, biographer and critic Dame Margaret Drabble published her debut novel in 1963. She quickly went on to become a bestselling and critically acclaimed chronicler of the lives of modern women in a series of contemporary realist stories, often based on her own life and experiences. Her 19 novels include The Millstone, The Waterfall, The Ic…

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s03e07 - Morris Men 41:43

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A flash-fiction podcast where a handful of writers create an original story with a limited wordcount in a limited amount of time. In this episode we jingle, jangle and babble in the traditional way. The stories are: 'Dance Magic Dance' by Amelia Armande, 'Tongue Tied' by Joshua Crisp, 'Hurgle Biggle Babble Rabble' by Fran Bushe, 'Riding to the Red …

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Eliza Haywood — The Female Spectator and Betsy Thoughtless with Kelly J. Plante 34:44

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Send us a text Details of Eliza Haywood’s life may be murky today, but in the early 18th century, she was a literary force—writing plays and bestselling novels, editing periodicals, and ruffling the feathers of male contemporaries like Alexander Pope. Academic Kelly J. Plante joins us this week to discuss Haywood’s anonymous wartime writing for The…

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Drabblecast 493 – China Doll 28:39

4M ago28:39

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Your curiosity and your inner voyeur are calling. Will you be able to meet their gaze? This week on the Drabblecast we bring you “China Doll,”by Kelsea Yu. Our artists is Matt Driver. Sydney based artist. Instagram @mdriverart Read by the Word Whore. Kelsea Yu (she/her) is a Taiwanese Chinese American writer and mother living […]…

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Marina Abramović 43:19

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For over more than five decades the Serbian conceptual and performance artist Marina Abramović has used her own body as her artistic medium, exploring the human condition in works that are often feats of endurance, exhaustion and pain. From her earliest works such as Rhythm 0, in which Abramović invited audiences to freely interact with her however…

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🔒 The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff 19:08

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Subscriber-only episode Send us a text Amy springboards off our discussion of last week’s “lost lady,” Mary MacLane, to further investigate the woman whose diary inspired her. From the age of 12 until her death at 25, Russian-born painter Marie Bashkirtseff detailed her daily life, frustrations, flirtations and family drama. First published in 1887…

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Peter Kosminsky 43:21

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Having started out as a current affairs journalist, Peter Kosminsky made his name by telling contemporary social and political stories in the form of television drama. Warriors was about British soldiers in the peace-keeping force in Bosnia; The Government Inspector dramatised the events surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly; The State explored t…

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Mary MacLane — I Await the Devil's Coming with Cathryn Halverson 33:13

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Send us a text Long before 'Brat Summer,' America was taken with Mary MacLane, a defiant and wildly egotistical 19-year-old resident of Butte, Montana, whose confessional diary implored the “kind devil” to deliver her from a life of bourgeois boredom. Professor Cathryn Halverson from Sweden’s Södertörn University joins us for this episode to discus…

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Marlon James 43:18

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Marlon James made his name in 2014 with A Brief History Of Seven Killings, a novel which interweaves various narratives over several decades, starting with the attempted assassination of reggae superstar Bob Marley in 1976. Having won the Booker and the American Book Award, and becoming an international bestselling author, he moved into the fantasy…

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HIATUS ENCORE: M.F.K. Fisher — How to Cook a Wolf with Anne Zimmerman 40:56

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Send us a text HIATUS ENCORE: Anne Zimmerman, author of the 2011 biography An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher, joins us to discuss Fisher and her World War II-era book How to Cook a Wolf, which was an attempt to teach people how to eat well and be well amidst personal and collective chaos. Discussed in this episode: An Ext…

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Kiri Te Kanawa 43:21

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The New Zealand born opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is one of the world's greatest sopranos. She enjoyed a 50 year career singing lead roles in opera houses around the globe, and on dozens of studio recordings. Since retiring in 2017 she has focussed on leading her Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation which supports young opera singers from her home country…

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Sigrid Schultz — “The Dragon from Chicago” with Pamela Toler 44:48

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Send us a text As Berlin bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 1925-1941, Sigrid Schultz deflected both sexism and danger to report the truth and speak truth to power. The Nazis dubbed her “that dragon from Chicago,” and her importance as an indomitable “newspaperman” (her term) telling Americans about the Third Reich's agenda can’t be understa…

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