Best RJ Barker Podcasts (2024)

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Freedom of Choice and Thank You For Your Service... 1:34:56

6h ago1:34:56

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Send us a Text Message. We all have choices to make, careers to choose, and decisions to make within those careers we choose. So once we choose our path, career, as a first responder, military, service industry, or wherever you choose to land your feet. Once we get settled in that career, it's easy sometimes to forget we put our dammed selves there…

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Johnston McCulley (Zorro) and Legendary Sword Fighters 1:35:22

8h ago1:35:22

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Send us a Text Message. Maybe you are of the age, or maybe you are to young to know the tales and the stories of the Legend of Zorro, vigilante hero who saved the day...the Robin Hood of early 1900's Los Angeles. If you were born a certain time of age, you might even have found yourself grabbing up a Zorro costume for Halloween...or you dawned your…

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Gabriele Amorth an Exorcist for Rome! 1:27:52

5d ago1:27:52

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Send us a Text Message. The Exorcist, Exorcist, The Pope's Exorcist, books, more movies, demonic possession, documentaries, demons, demonic children, priests, the Catholic church, so many things come to mind when we hear the words The Exorcist...but what of it, right, is it real, does it happen, do demons exists? In this episode we wander through t…

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Ma and Fred Barker, the FBI's Longest Gunfight 1:21:04

12d ago1:21:04

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Send us a Text Message. We give you an almighty FUBAR, when the Barker/Karpis gang (1935) exchanged bullets with the FBI, well, not the whole gang, just Ma and Fred Barker. The events and craziness leading up to this pivotal encounter is nothing short of nutty. Ma and Fred Barker, were criminals to the core, leading the FBI and local law enforcemen…

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Long Haul Truckers a Serial Killers Playground! 2:01:58

19d ago2:01:58

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Send us a Text Message. When we were kids, it was a thing to open your car window on a summer day, lean out, make a fist and pump your arm up and down as a big rig-semi-truck passed by hoping they would sound the horn...that infamous highway big rig horn! In this episode, we stray from those glorious childhood memories to a darker time, and take a …

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Grab Bag Episode, Movies, Music, and Pop Culture!!! 2:02:30

25d ago2:02:30

2:02:30

Send us a Text Message. The Grab Bag Episode is one of our favorite episodes to put out, the Grab Bag Episode!!! Absolute shenanigans, and all sorts of things happen in these episodes, we have no idea what is going to happen, or who is going to say what. These episodes are some of our most unedited shows, so much fun to do! A hat full of topics on …

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Should First Responders Be Allowed to Smoke Marijuana... 1:41:19

1M ago1:41:19

1:41:19

Send us a Text Message. In this episode the Detectivery State of Mind and Other Strange Things team gets after the question everyone is asking. Should Police Officers, Firefighters, nurses, doctors, medics, military, or any other careers that restrict Marijuana use, and allow these employees to partake in the usage of the Devil's Lettuce? Oh, it's …

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Longhair "Big" Jim Courtright, Outlaw, Lawman 1:34:53

2M ago1:34:53

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Send us a Text Message. On this episode, we head on back to the old west, and step into the world of Longhair "Big" Jim Courtright...was he an outlaw, or a lawman, or both. Well, that's we are going try and find out!!!! So, saddle up, grab your six-gun, we are heading to the late 1800's for this one...man is this a crazy, crazy true story of one of…

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Women Work In Law Enforcement Deal With It!!! 1:41:50

2M ago1:41:50

1:41:50

Send us a Text Message. On today's episode we have a very special guest joining us, Sergeant H. She has 18 years of law enforcement experience, has worked as a 911 emergency dispatcher, a patrol officer, FTO, Taser Instructor, trainer, and is currently a sergeant working for a busy transit authority division. Sergeant H has seen some shit! We are v…

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Emerald Anvil & Blair Witch at 25 with Gregg Hale and Ed Sanchez 59:32

2M ago59:32

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We're joined once more by filmmakers Gregg Hale and Eduardo Sanchez, the brains behind The Blair Witch Project, V/H/S, Lovely Molly, and many more. Gregg and Hale talk to us about their new podcast-based audio drama Black Velvet Fairies. It's a tour de force meta narrative that plays with the found footage medium that gave them their big break, but…

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The Uncanny Valley and Anthropomorphism... 1:28:00

2M ago1:28:00

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Send us a Text Message. Have you ever heard the terms Uncanny Valley, or Anthropomorphism...yes, great. No, we that's great to...cause your in for a treat. In order to understand what these terms mean, well, your just gonna have to listen...your mind will be totally blown open...or swirled into a liquid gelatin mass, that is probably more likely...…

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Incels, Should We Be Worried! 1:47:58

2M ago1:47:58

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Send us a Text Message. Incel, "Involuntary Celibacy"...what in the hell is that! Well, in Episode #95, we launch ourselves into the world of Incel's. If you have no idea what this is, then your in for a bumpy ride, cause shit's gonna get weird... We look at the concept of Incel mental mindsets, to celibacy itself, where is it rooted, how have so m…

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World Prisons, the Good the Bad and the Really Ugly! 1:58:07

3M ago1:58:07

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Send us a Text Message. Have you ever ventured outside the great US of A, planned a wonderful vacation to a country of your choice. Well if you have, maybe you've wondered what it might be like to get arrested and jailed in another country...well then you don't want to miss this episode!!! We take a tour into prisons around the world, and discuss t…

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Falling Down A Movie Review of a 1993 Cult Classic 1:53:03

3M ago1:53:03

1:53:03

Send us a Text Message. 1993, the year that brought us all a heaping amount of classic movies, to include, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Tombstone, and so much more. Including the movie we are doing a review on Falling Down, the only way we can here at Detectivery State of Mind and Other Strange Things. So, grab some popcorn, and some Jujubes...…

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The Alien Invasion Has Begun...Now What!!! 1:31:04

3M ago1:31:04

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Send us a Text Message. Well, the alien's have come to Earth...and they are not friendly, yes, they are bugs. For our alien invasion apocalyptic diabolical event we have chosen Mantis like creatures from some unnamed planet in the universe. So, what do you do now, the invasion is here...and it's kind of a little bad...actually, really bad. Join us …

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I am Batman... 1:42:15

3M ago1:42:15

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Send us a Text Message. So, you wanna be Batman...well so do we, but before you make that life altering decision, you might want to listen to this episode. Join us as we breakdown the world of Batman, and how difficult it would be to actually make an attempt at being a real life Batman. Yeah, things get a little weird, and there is a bit of mayhem!…

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1970s Grab Bag Episode 1:55:35

3M ago1:55:35

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Send us a Text Message. Here we go, a Grab Bag Episode extravaganza - the 1970s. This episode is full of captivating, stimulating conversation, total hilarity and mayhem... As we do with all of our grab bag episodes, we have a series of torn up slips containing topics from the 1970s, we dumped into a hat. We pass the hat around, reach in and pull o…

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Under The Skin with Gregg Hale & Eduardo Sanchez 50:28

3M ago50:28

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You might be forgiven for thinking that us saying we had two of the horror genre's most distinguished filmmakers on the show would be an April Fool's joke, but you should know by now we never, ever joke about our guests (except for RJ Barker, who will forever be known as the Goth King of Leeds). Today we're joined by Gregg Hale and Eduardo Sanchez,…

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A Deep Dive Discussion: PTSD, Peer Support, Retention and Recruitment with Veteran Police Officer JC 2:03:46

4M ago2:03:46

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we tackle some very heavy topics, PTSD, Peer Support, Recruitment and Retention. To help us tackle these intense topics, we are joined by Veteran Police Officer, JC, with over 18 years of experience. He has worked in detentions, patrol, CSI, SWAT, FTO, Honor Guard, and has been a sergeant. JC has been through…

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Joseph Miedzianowski Chicago's Most Corrupt Cop 1:19:02

4M ago1:19:02

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Send us a Text Message. Hollywood movies, TV cop shows, we've all seen them, the Departed, Negotiator, The Big Easy...all movies made in Hollywood about police corruption. Well, have we got a doozy of a show for you. This story is not pulled from a Hollywood script, this episode is about Joseph Miedzianowski, media called him Chicago's most corrupt…

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DC Sniper aka the Beltway Snipers Debacle!!! 1:44:56

4M ago1:44:56

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Send us a Text Message. In October of 2002, Washington DC, was gripped by fear as 2 men held the nations capital city captive, murdering people at random. 2001, 911 happened, so much news media was covering the war moving to the Middle East, but in the DC area, nothing was normal. DC had just begun the recovering from the attack on the Pentagon, th…

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Men of The World Who Changed The World 1:25:53

4M ago1:25:53

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Send us a Text Message. Who are these men we speak of, Izzie Einstein, Moe Smith, Alan Pinkerton, and William Fairbairn. Throughout history people have played a part in the shaping of our world, in one way or another. First we start with Izzie Einstein and Moe Smith, a pair of prohibition agents who shaped the landscape for future task force style …

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Music at Work and the Quiet Leadership Quandary 1:26:06

5M ago1:26:06

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Send us a Text Message. Music, ahh, the soothing sounds of your favorite music lifting your spirits throughout the day...hey, not so fast idiot...turn that shit down!!! Does this remind you of your parents, maybe without the idiot part. You can't listen to that at work, that music is offensive...you cretin! So, where do you stand on this, music at …

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On Short Stories with John Langan 1:26:31

5M ago1:26:31

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Christopher and Dan are joined by horror writer John Langan, whose great horror novel The Fisherman finally is out now in the UK, an inexplicable seven years after being first published in most other territories. John talks to us about the health and wellbeing of Laird Barron, one of the other members of the modern horror brat pack, who suffered re…

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Internet Sleuths...Ohh, the Humanity!!! 1:30:28

5M ago1:30:28

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Send us a Text Message. I love myself a great story, maybe even find myself self engaging in a great true crime story (this comment is not shared by everyone on this podcast, this was vocalized with a tirade of curse words!), but not always. However, every so often we find ourselves stumbling across a story from headline news that captivates a comm…

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The Undercover Operation To Takedown the KKK in Colorado Springs: The Black Klansmen - Ron Stallworth Story 1:19:19

5M ago1:19:19

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Send us a Text Message. In 2018, a movie hit the theaters called The BlacKkKlansmen, which tells the story of Ron Stallworth a rookie police officer who worked for the Colorado Springs Police Department who was monumental in an operation to take down the KKK in Colorado Springs in 1978! Excellent movie and a great true story! In 2014, Ron Stallwort…

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The Killing of Pablo Escobar...Oh the Colonel, Oh He Dead.... 1:43:44

5M ago1:43:44

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Send us a Text Message. His reign was just over a decade, but yet he amassed billions...at the peak of his reign of terror, he was considered one of the richest men in the world, all obtained from cocaine trafficking. Call him a drug kingpin, drug lord, the king of cocaine, who preyed on the weak, and destroyed anyone who got in his way. Somehow, h…

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Frank Hamer and Maney Gault the Pursuit of Bonnie and Clyde 1:43:59

6M ago1:43:59

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Send us a Text Message. The year was 1934, the day was May 23rd, a fine spring day, Bonnie and Clyde were on the run. Unfortunately, they had 2 of Texas's finest on their trail...Texas Rangers Frank Hamer and Maney Gault, also known as The Highway Men. Bonnie and Clyde went on a 2 year crime spree, robbing, stealing, and killing...they met their fa…

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2000 to 2010 Grab Bag Episode!!! 2:01:08

6M ago2:01:08

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Detectivery State of Mind and Other Strange Things Grab Bag Episode! Here is how one of our Grab Bag Episodes work, we literally have a hat full of tiny pieces of paper with topics for discussion written on them. One of us reaches into the hat and pulls out a topic and reads it. We don't make any preparation on th…

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Irma Grese and Otto Skorzeny...2 infamous characters from WWII history! 1:42:03

6M ago1:42:03

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Send us a Text Message. If you know rock music, and listen to Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath wrote the song War Pigs, I am convinced they had these two characters in mind. This the story of Irma Grese, a nightmarish player from the Nazi war machine, and Otto Skorzeny, who remained a free man after WWII ended in 1945. We still, have no idea how he …

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James Elbert "Jake-McNasty" McNeice and the Filthy 13 1:36:14

6M ago1:36:14

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Send us a Text Message. It was 1967, Hollywood grabbed their chance at making a movie about a legendary WWII unit called the filthy 13. Hollywood, taking to their naming conventions, decided on the Dirty Dozen for the name, starring Lee Marvin. Maybe you've seen it, maybe not. So saddle up, tighten your paracord as we take you on a time machine bac…

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Marvin John Heemeyer...The KillDozer Fella... 1:21:24

7M ago1:21:24

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Send us a Text Message. Happy holidays!!! If your holiday season is just a little to cheery, we here at Detectivery State of Mind and Other Strange Things have got you covered. Jump into the tale of Marvin John Heemeyer, the fella who built a giant bulldozer death machine, and took it on a joy ride through a mountain town called Granby Colorado. Mr…

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Idiots, Brainiacs, and Questionable Humans!!! 1:44:23

7M ago1:44:23

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Send us a Text Message. In today's episode we take you on a journey into some of the quirky and bizarre humans we have had the pleasure of meeting throughout our years in law enforcement. These people come from all walks of life, and different perspectives...so buckle up, come on in and enjoy the ride. This episode is full of comedy, misunderstandi…

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Cryptids and Beast...Oh My!!!! 1:53:51

7M ago1:53:51

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Send us a Text Message. Here we go down the road less traveled...well, unless your on a dirt bike and come across a tiny humanoid creature skittering across the roadway...yup...that happened. Or, if you've ever heard a bump in the night, looked out your bedroom door, or out the window unable to see anything...was it just the wind, or a visiting Cry…

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John "Liver Eat'n" Johnson...it gets a little weird! 1:31:09

8M ago1:31:09

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Send us a Text Message. The adventures of John "Liver Eat'n" Johnson...yup, quite a nickname. You may know him as Jerimiah Johnson, from the Robert Redford movie made in 1972 titled Jeramiah Johnson. The story of this her fella, is nothing short of legendary, and most would agree, a bit of villainous debauchery. Let's just say, he had a bit of some…

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Unsolved Serial Killer Cases...It Get's a Little Weird! 1:23:48

8M ago1:23:48

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Send us a Text Message. So, if you go on the ole trusty internet and Google unsolved serial killer cases, the numbers are a little concerning. There seems to be quite a few unsolved serial killer cases. The reasons for these cases remaining unsolved is a mystery, some are just lucky, others are related to the decade in which they occurred and the l…

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John Christie, an English Bloke Who Murdered People...and just mayhem!!! 1:49:21

8M ago1:49:21

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Send us a Text Message. WE ARE BACK!!!! We hear the thunderous applause!!! After a short break, and we jump right into the hellish story of John Christie a serial killer who was active in London from the mid 1940's to the early 1950's. The story of John Christie, is nothing short of disturbing, and stomach churning. Join us as we take you back in t…

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Gone Fishin' With John Langan 1:31:48

9M ago1:31:48

1:31:48

Ahoy ahoy! When the Beanstalker and I were drawing up our wish list for guests on the podcast, there was one name that @Phyrebrat was adamant that we try and get. That was the American author John Langan, who joins us for this episode. John is one of the masters of modern horror and whose seminal book The Fisherman, an exploration of guilt, diaspor…

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Vampirism and Lycanthropy...fact or fiction....you decide!!! 1:22:34

9M ago1:22:34

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Send us a Text Message. Everyone on the planet has heard the tales of vampires and Lycanthropes (werewolves), but have you thought of the folklore, facts, or the mental health side of things. Follow us as we take you on a tour of the world of vampires and werewolves, folklore, fact, fiction, and stories of complete mayhem and hilarity...coupled wit…

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Halloween Grab Bag Extravaganza!!! 1:39:27

9M ago1:39:27

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Send us a Text Message. Yes, it is that time of year for a Halloween Grab Bag Extravaganza!!! We literally have placed random Halloween topics into a hat, and we each just grab a topic out of the hat and start talking about it!!! So grab some hot cider...yuck...unless your into that sort of thing, or a nice glass of fresh urine...if your into that …

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Executions Gone Wrong...oh, Yup, He's Still Alive!!! 1:21:35

9M ago1:21:35

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Send us a Text Message. Ever since man and woman, have been wandering around the Earth, executions have been a part of our history. Sometimes, people just piss each other off, and someone has to be executed, it's just kind of the way it is. The Death penalty still lives on today in countries all around the world, and well with the death penalty is …

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San Francisco Needs a Priest, Shamans, and Probably Batman!!! 1:22:35

10M ago1:22:35

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Send us a Text Message. San Francisco, the city by the bay...home of Metallica...and so much more. Recently, it has been in the headlines for a rising level of crime and villainous behavior plaguing the streets of this fair city. Are all cities in America headed in this direction? Why is this happening to San Francisco? But, Detective Chuck you say…

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The Future is Wide Open... 1:39:05

10M ago1:39:05

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Send us a Text Message. Thinking about what the future may hold, well don't you worry, here at Detectivery Studios, we have you covered!!! In this episode, we discuss all things futuristic and new, from high tech gear, to the entanglements of how AI will impact our lives. How will the future shape our world, for law enforcement, and everywhere in b…

11M ago1:15:15

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We're back after the summer break, and are joined by Anne Perry, the publishing director at Jo Fletcher Books, to talk about Naomi Novik's 2015 fantasy bestseller, Uprooted. Based upon aspects of rural Polish folklore, Uprooted follows Agnieszka, a plain village girl who is shocked to learn that she is to be taken away to live with The Dragon, a po…

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