Best Jill Culiner Podcasts (2024)

The beginning of my journey to find Velvel ZbarzherAvailable from Claret PressPaperback https://payhip.com/b/o7M23Ebook https://payhip.com/b/HmK5COr https://boook.link/A-Contrary-Journey-with-Velvel-Zbarzher-BardBy Jill Culiner

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A Contrary Journey with Velvel Zbarzher, Bard published by Claret Press 15:42

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Velvel Zbarzher, rebel, songster, and glittering star of fusty inns, spent his life singing his Enlightenment poems to loyal audiences of poor workers and craftsmen in Austrian-Galicia, Romania, Vienna and Istanbul. His attacks condemning the religious stronghold resulted in banishment and itinerancy, but for Velvel and the other like the other ref…

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The Book Tour Episode Sixteen: On to Oklahoma 9:41

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Strange characters on the bus, Oklahoma's unsavoury history, the KKK, the Sooners, a breakfast invitationBy Jill Culiner

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The Book Tour Episode Fifteen: Along the Road 13:13

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Looking for the Perfect Setting and the Perfect Place to LiveBy Jill Culiner

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The Book Tour Episode Fourteen: Looking for the Ideal Setting in Nevada 12:58

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I travel to Nevada to find the ideal place to set a story. Instead, I find Las Vegas, nuclear testing grounds, and assorted rubbish.By Jill Culiner

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Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers 29:46

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The Romanian Fusgeyers were the Jews who walked out of their country. One hundred and thirty years later, I crossed Romania in their footsteps before continuing on along the former immigrant trail across Europe, then to the gold and silver mining towns of Canada.By Jill Culiner

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The Book Tour Episode Thirteen: The ex-Husband 12:10

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A meeting with an ex thirty years laterBy Jill Culiner

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The Book Tour Episode Twelve: Traveling with Mr. Bleany 9:44

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The ups and downs of book talksBy Jill Culiner

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The Book Tour Episode Eleven: A Love Story...of sorts... 7:24

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The greasy-haired man is on his way to meet his new love...a woman he has never seen...By Jill Culiner

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The Book Tour Episode Ten: Along the Road 9:50

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In Episode Ten, as I travel through Montana, I meet Sherry and hear her story.By Jill Culiner

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The Book Tour Episode Nine: Livingstone, Montana 16:14

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Livingstone Montana, then and nowBy Jill Culiner

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The Book Tour Episode Eight: Travelling by Grehound— Grist for the Writer's Mill 15:27

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The rather strange people encountered on buses...By Jill Culiner

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Book Tour Episode Seven: Mitigated Success and Unmitigated Failure in Winnipeg and Regina 12:06

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I travel on to Winnipeg and Regina to talk about my books but, as usual in my life, nothing goes as planned. Still, tomorrow is another day...By Jill Culiner

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The Turkish Affair: Chapter One 40:35

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Priceless artifacts are disappearing from the ancient Hittite site of Karakuyu in Turkey, and the site director has vanished. Called in to solve the mystery, archaeologist Renaud Townsend is hindered by both his inability to speak the language and the knowledge that the local police are corrupt. His attraction to translator Anne Pierson is immediat…

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The Book Tour Episode Six: A Boomtown (Almost the Wild West) 9:07

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I go looking for the past in modern-day Thunder Bay and am directed to the mallBy Jill Culiner

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The Book Tour Episode Five: Halifax 9:27

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All about minimal success and many dull conversationsBy Jill Culiner

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The Book Tour Episode Four: From Montreal to Halifax 8:13

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The meeting with Ruben, Rivière du Loup, and odd conversationsBy Jill Culiner

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The Book Tour Episode Three: On the Road...finally 9:15

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The first talks in Ottawa...not at all what anyone would call success...By Jill Culiner

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The Book Tour Episode Two: An Interesting Encounter 10:58

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In Toronto, after arranging the book tour, I meet a homeless man and his dogsBy Jill Culiner

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The Book Tour— Episode One: How It All Began 12:23

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After winning the Tanenbaum prize for my non-fiction book, I began a book tour in Canada and the USA. Although this is not always a success story, it's an amusing one. This chapter is about how the idea for a tour was born.By Jill Culiner

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Life in a Small French Village Episode Fourteen: The End 17:43

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The last chapter in this series describes the last village 'bad boy' and the changes in the traditional French village.By Jill Culiner

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Desert Rose 2:21

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Men love Rose Badger, and if the other inhabitants of dead-end Blake’s Folly, Nevada, don’t approve, she couldn’t care less. With a disastrous marriage far behind her, settling down is the last thing she intends to do. Isn’t life for fun? Doesn’t a stable relationship always mean predictability and boredom? Well… perhaps things might be different w…

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Life in a Small French Village Episode Thirteen: Parents 13:16

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Middle class parents and their childrenVillage parents and their childrenBy Jill Culiner

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Life in a Small French Village Episode Twelve: The Evil Eye 13:56

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Local superstitions, the evil eye, a village sorcerer, incantationsBy Jill Culiner

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Life in a Small French Village Episode Eleven: Murder 16:06

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Changes in the village, a local murder, and a submarine carBy Jill Culiner

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Life in a Small French Village Episode Ten: Meatballs 17:38

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Life in a Small French Village Episode Ten: Meatballs by Jill CulinerBy Jill Culiner

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Mystery: Sad Summer in Biarritz Episode One 31:41

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A Canadian woman, hopes to change her life by moving to Biarritz. Having escaped a devastating relationship with the mentally unstable Dominique, she is determined to make new friends and find the perfect mate. But in this summer resort frequented by couples and families, available singles are lonely people, too often embittered by romantic failure…

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A Swan's Sweet Song Chapter One 22:16

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The instant Sherry and Carston meet, there’s desire and fascination in the air…but they’re complete opposites. Smart-talking Sherry fought her way up from poverty to stardom as a country music singer. Now, she’s ever in the limelight, ever surrounded by clamoring fans, male admirers, and paparazzi, and her spangled cowboy boots carry her all across…

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Life in a Small French Village Episode Nine: Marriage 12:52

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Life in a Small French Village Episode Nine: Marriage by Jill CulinerBy Jill Culiner

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Felicity's Power: Chapter One 20:06

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The evening Marek Sumner opened his door to the wild-looking Felicity Powers, he knew nothing would ever be the same again. But even love and passion couldn’t keep them together. Years later, having lived in the world’s most dangerous places as a foreign aid worker, Felicity is back, still offering love, passion, and adventure. But why would Marek …