Interview with Leonora Meriel, author of The Woman Behind The Waterfall and The Unity Game. https://leonorameriel.com/
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Anders and Leonora describe the science behind selfies Cover art photo provided by Antoine Beauvillain on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@antoinebeauvillain
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The literary podcast that has been giving new life to old books since 2015. For show notes visit backlisted.fm and get an extra two shows a month by supporting the pod at patreon.com/backlisted
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Mothering Heights is a podcast dedicated to the conversations around motherhood, creativity, and building community. Hosted by actor, director, producer, dancer, and community builder Leonora Pitts, Mothering Heights seeks to discover how to remain a creative human while raising creative humans, and how to build a community to support those goals. Every week, we will host a funny, inspiring, creative mama who will share their triumphs and follies.
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Hope you like it Cover art photo provided by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@impatrickt
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A podcast designed to give you an idea of how to live a life that improves ourselves, the planet, and our shared experience in ten minutes or less. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewfinderhome/support
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What’sHerName puts the women back into world history. Hosts Dr. Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle are professors-turned-podcasters (and sisters!) Weaving interviews with experts into vivid, nuanced biographies, What'sHerName women's history podcast tells the stories of fascinating women you’ve never heard of (but should have). Fascinating and funny, thought-provoking and insightful. New episodes biweekly Mondays.
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Tommy Zeigler has been on death row for 42 years and for more than half that time, he’s been trying to convince the state of Florida to allow for DNA tests that might help exonerate him. But the state continually refuses. About 20 other men are in a similar situation, imprisoned in Florida since the 1970s or ’80s and arguing that it’s inherently unfair to deny them access to 21st century science. Leonora LaPeter Anton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Tampa Bay Times, and photograph ...
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A podcast about books for people who don't like books, podcasts or capitalism, but who like extreme metal.
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A spirited audio-fiction series focusing on the stories of subversive and obscure female artists from around the world and their art. Performed by Coleen MacPherson and Martha Ross, with special guest artists in each episode. The first episode focuses on Mexican-English painter, Leonora Carrington. Sound Design / Editing by Christopher Ross-Ewart. Music Score by Mitchell Akiyama. This podcast was made possible by Canada Council for the Arts / CBC Digital Originals Grant 2020.
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A podcast where three friends read *all* the books, one book at a time. Join Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss one book in depth and chat about their reading. Visit our website at onebrightbook.com Support us by buying books from our shop at https://bookshop.org/shop/OneBrightBook Find us on Twitter at @pod_bright Frances: @nonsuchbook Dorian: @ds228 Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes Dorian blogs at https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/ Rebecca writes a newsletter at https://readingindie.subst ...
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Short and sweet summaries of fundamental feminist texts from the past 500+ years. She Speaks Volumes provides a primer for critical moments in the history, theory, and philosophy of feminism. Each episode explores a writer, and their contribution to modern feminism.
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Welcome to History Spinners, where two librarians (Mary and Karen) geek out on the history of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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Welcome to Senyum with Coach Oka This is where you can get inspiration from success stories in fitness journey.
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Chats with folks who work with and within the Rust programming language.
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A Podcast on Masters and Moderns
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Mind Over Melody is a podcast intended for music industry professionals - from artists to managers to record label executives to songwriters to touring professionals & everyone in between. Join Samantha Jervey (MMFT & former record label/music publishing A&R) and Emily Falvey (staff songwriter, adjunct professor, & mental health advocate) for open & honest conversations around wellness, creativity, & sustainability within the music industry.
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The RipeGlobal podcast aims to provide innovative and inspirational dental education to dentists, specialists, and their teams worldwide. Each episode, our hosts Dr Lincoln Harris and Dr Michael Melkers sit down with some of the best in the business, talk about dentistry, procedures, and personal stories that have shaped their dental decisions. Learn tips and tricks from these master dentists and excel in your professional career today.
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Welcome to MORE THAN A MUSE, a weekly podcast where we explore the lives of women artists, musicians, writers, sculptors, and more. Join Stauney (a graphic designer) and Sadie (a singer-songwriter) EVERY MONDAY as we reframe art history and pop culture with feminism, empowering women to be educated, unapologetically angry, and champion those whom history has forgotten. Through in-depth historical discussions and pop culture chats, we spotlight unsung heroines, all while challenging the statu ...
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Bow Down is a podcast about significant women artists from the past, hosted by Jennifer Higgie, editor at large at Frieze. Women have been expressing themselves since the beginning of time. Yet, ask around and you'll find that most people struggle to name even one non-male artist from before the 20th century. For each 20-minute episode, Jennifer invites an artist, writer, historian or curator to nominate an artist to whom we should all … well, bow down. Subscribe to learn more about these ra ...
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Leonora Carrington's The Stone Door, Alchemy, Dreams, and Memory
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57:13Eden is joined by friend of the cast Jesse Kohn (The Book of Webs) to talk about Leonora Carrington's beguiling and dense The Stone Door. Unfortunately, this episode is marred by the Brown University and Bondi Beach shootings. A better world is possible. Demand utopia.Music played:The Tea Club - The Bell Ringer https://theteaclub.bandcamp.com/track…
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Langdon and Eden meet to discuss a smörgåsbord (say it with us) of topics like mental health, the uses of online discourse, and a collection of books they've been reading.Music played:The Holy Pale by Wildhunt https://jawbreakerrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-holy-paleBy DEATH // SENTENCE
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Uno Chiyo rose to fame in 20th century Japan as a writer, designer, domestic goddess, and fashion icon - mostly by marketing herself as just a scandalous woman. But this "Bad Girl of Good Housekeeping" was so much more than just a writer of sexy stories. Guest Rebecca Copeland helps us uncover the secrets of this enigmatic, fascinating woman. Music…
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Asterix and the Roman Agent by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
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1:12:14Merry Christmas! Join Andy and Una, plus authors Louie Stowell and Robert Shearman, for a post-solstice celebration of Asterix and the Roman Agent (1972) by René Goscinny (words) and Albert Uderzo (pictures), first published in France in 1970 as La Zizanie, and freely translated into English by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge. Christmas was a festi…
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To snowy Ontario, Canada for our 2026 Christmas Special! Living out the dream of countless exhausted women, Laura Lee Davidson retreated to an island in the middle of a lake, and lived there alone through a long Canadian winter. But she wasn't really alone. Wild creatures became her friends, and she was constantly the recipient of neighborly kindne…
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Episode #41: In Conversation with Sam Sacks About Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026
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1:17:05Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss their most anticipated books of 2026 with Sam Sacks, prominent book critic for The Wall Street Journal, writing the weekly "Fiction Chronicle," and a founding editor of Open Letters Monthly. For our next episode, we will discuss The Way We Live Now by Anthony Tr…
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Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild - rerun
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1:34:32A timely revisit of our 2022 Christmas special which celebrates Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild, a classic of children’s literature and the childhood favourite of our producer, Nicky Birch. We are joined by the writer Una McCormack and Tanya Kirk, the Lead Curator of Printed Heritage Collections (1601-1900) at the British Library, who are both lif…
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Branson Reese Visits the Wizard's Castle
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2:41:31Langdon conjures forth the Wizard's Castle once more, this time trapping Branson Reese (HELL WAS FULL, SWAN BOY, Rude Tales of Magic, and more) within its sorcerous corridors. While there, the two discuss what makes jokes funny, the impact of the morality of art, and The Simpsons (among other things).Music played - Yellow Eyes - Brush the Frozen Ho…
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At the recent Voices of Women Festival, we invited folks to pop into our ad-hoc recording box to record the 60-second story of their favorite historical woman. The results are a delight - and include some cast and crew members from Broadway's SUFFS! The Voices of Women Festival was held in Salt Lake City, UT, in tandem with Broadway's SUFFS on tour…
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Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
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1:22:11Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930), the astounding first novel by Olaf Stapledon. The book is one of the founding texts of science fiction, a fact that has both assured its reputation and arguably restricted its readership, a conundrum we discuss du…
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THE BLACK NATIONALIST Queen Mother Audley Moore
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54:17Queen Mother Audley Moore was one of the most respected, most influential, longest-lasting influences on the US Black Nationalist movement, the Pan-African movement, the movement for Reparations, and the Black American organizing community in general across almost the entire 20th century. So why have most of us never even heard her name? Returning …
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Episode #40: I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman
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1:15:15Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we will be joined by book critic Sam Sacks for our fourth (!!!) annual most anticipated books episode. We wi…
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Transit and the Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
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1:18:38Something a little different this week. Andy, Una and Nicky discuss the novel Transit by Rachel Cusk, the second part of her award-winning Outline trilogy. Outline, the first volume was published in 2014, with Transit following two years later and then finally Kudos in 2018; our conversation encompasses all three books. Backlisted began not long af…
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The Woman Who Built a Masterpiece: Isabella Stewart Gardner
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39:25In this episode, Stauney and Sadie step inside the world of Isabella Stewart Gardner, the eccentric American collector who refused to play by Boston’s rules and built a museum that doubled as her personal artistic manifesto. They unpack Isabella’s life as a patron and tastemaker, her bold curatorial choices, and the unconventional vision behind Fen…
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In 1917, Katharine Gibbs rebounded from personal tragedy in an unusual way: she decided to train a subversive, feminist army. Nearly broke and with just a high school education, Gibbs trained women as executive secretaries, building a famous school in just a few years. "Gibbs Girls" were so intelligent, competent, and polite, that no one could just…
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The Scandalous Muse of Vienna: Alma Mahler
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41:20This week, Stauney and Sadie delve into the life of Alma Mahler—composer, muse, and one of the most controversial women of early 20th-century Vienna. We explore how her relationships with towering figures like Gustav Mahler, Oskar Kokoschka, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel intertwined art, love, and obsession in ways that shaped her creative ident…
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The Witch Hunt of Women in Music: From Coven to Beyoncé
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42:58In this episode of More Than A Muse, hosts Stauney and Sadie explore the fascinating intersection of witchcraft and pop culture, particularly in the music industry. They discuss various musicians who have been accused of witchcraft, including historical bands like Coven and contemporary artists like Beyoncé and Lady Gaga. The conversation delves in…
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Bonus Episode #4: Dorian Stuber and Rohan Maitzen Discuss Vanity Fair
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1:16:42Welcome to One Bright Book! Rebecca and Frances move out of the picture for this bonus episode where Dorian gets a chance to finally discuss VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray with his one time professor and always friend, Rohan Maitzen. A rare and special opportunity to revisit the book from the syllabus that he blew off reading. "You can …
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For this year's Halloween episode, we take a windswept walk across the Yorkshire moors with Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights — not as a tale of doomed romance, but as a novel steeped in gothic horror, mystery and the supernatural. With our resident spooky authorities, Andrew Male and Laura Varnam, we explore the book’s darker undercurrents, ghostly…
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Web of Angels and Another Cyberpunk
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1:38:10Langdon and Eden kick things off by talking about the uses of awards - how to follow them, what they're good for, and why!Then, they dive into John M. Ford's parallel reality version of cyberpunk with Web of Angels, his debut novel. Phone lines that span galaxies, crazy weird space opera, and a rough book that brims with passion!Music played:Heruvi…
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THE BIRD OF ILL OMEN Catherine Crowe: 2025 Halloween Special
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56:30Catherine Crowe was a wildly acclaimed Victorian novelist, playwright, social critic and …ghost hunter? Her novels were as popular as Charles Dickens,’ and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Martineau, and George Eliot were her ardent fans. And her pioneering catalog of ghosts and the supernatural, The Night Side of Nature, was one of the first and most …
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The Three Witches of Surrealism: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, & Kati Horna
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45:42In this episode of More Than a Muse, hosts Sadie and Stauney dive into the enduring allure of witches—both historical and modern. From Sadie’s recent trip to Salem and reflections on the infamous witch trials to conversations about how social media fuels today’s digital witch hunts, they explore the intersection of outrage, activism, and empowermen…
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To honour the life of Jilly Cooper, we are replaying this joyous episode from 2019 with a new introduction. Joining Andy and John in this episode are Daisy Buchanan, writer, feminist, host of the brilliant You’re Booked podcast. Daisy’s latest book Read Yourself Happy - How to Use Books to Ease Your Anxiety is published by Dorling Kindersley. She i…
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Season of the Witch: From Myth to Modern Feminism
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44:49In this episode of More Than a Muse, Sadie and Stauney take a deep dive into the spellbinding world of witches - from the dark myths that shaped them to the feminist icons they’ve become. They trace the roots of witchcraft through history, folklore, and literature, unraveling how stories of broomsticks, cauldrons, and curses often reflected fear of…
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The Life of a Showgirl: Is Taylor Swift unrelatable?
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58:18Join Sadie and Stauney on "More Than a Muse" as they dive into the much-anticipated release of Taylor Swift's 12th studio album, "Life of a Showgirl." In this episode, they explore the album's themes, discuss their initial reactions, and share insights from the official album release party. From favorite tracks to unexpected surprises, Sadie and St…
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Episode #39: The Stone Door, by Leonora Carrington
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1:10:12Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss THE STONE DOOR by Leonora Carrington, and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we will discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, with an afterword by Sophie Mackintosh. We would love …
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Glamour and Grit: The Untold History of Showgirls
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41:26In this episode of More Than A Muse, hosts Sadie and Stauney dive into the fascinating history and cultural impact of showgirls. As they prepare for the release of "Life of a Showgirl," they explore the evolution of showgirls from their origins in Paris to their iconic status in Las Vegas. The discussion covers the glamorous yet grueling life of a …
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When a history-making Copper Age burial was unearthed in southern Spain in 2008, the world was stunned by the incredibly beautiful - and utterly unprecedented - artifacts found in the tomb of the so-called 'Ivory Man.' But fifteen years later, the archaeology world would be rocked by an even more astonishing discovery - that 5,000-year-old Ivory Ma…
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All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook part 2
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1:13:59Writer Jason Hazeley joins Andy, Una and Nicky for a celebratory investigation - or investigative celebration - of All the Devils Are Here, the ungovernable literary brainchild of the late David Seabrook and a book we first discussed on Backlisted in April 2016. (You can still find episode 11, which featured critic Rachel Cooke, in the usual places…
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Naruto run with us to the local picture house to watch a double bill of Ari Aster's Eddington and Zack Cregger's Weapons, with Kayte Terry of the excellent Tender Subject podcast.Music by Umulamahri: https://umulamahri.bandcamp.com/album/learning-the-secrets-of-acid-2By DEATH // SENTENCE
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Child Star and Hollywood Tragedy: Natalie Wood
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46:46In this episode of "More Than a Muse," hosts Sadie and Stauney delve into the life and legacy of Hollywood icon Natalie Wood. From her early days as a child star in "Miracle on 34th Street" to her acclaimed roles in "Rebel Without a Cause" and "West Side Story," Natalie Wood's career was marked by both triumph and tragedy. The hosts explore her com…
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The Eye Of the Beholder by Marc Behm
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1:09:46Emmy Award-winning writer David Quantick (Veep, The Thick of It) joins Andy and Una for a discussion of Marc Behm's surreal thriller The Eye of the Beholder (1980). David last appeared on Backlisted almost ten years ago, waaay back on episode 5. On that occasion he brought with him Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson. It is no exagger…
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In this episode of "More Than A Muse," Sadie and Stauney dive into the intriguing concept of "Eldest Daughter Syndrome." They explore the pressures and expectations placed on eldest daughters through personal anecdotes and cultural references, from Disney's Elsa to real-life figures like Britney Spears. Join them as they discuss the impact of birth…
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Violeta Parra needs no introduction in Latin America: not only did she record the greatest album in Chilean history, she also collected two thousand folk songs, danced in the Poor Circus, sang in the streets, and --incredibly-- exhibited at the Louvre. Over the years she also broke ...*checks notes*... 48 guitars over people's heads. Discover the l…
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Elizabeth Taylor: Violet Eyes & Seven Husbands
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1:10:58In this episode of More Than A Muse Podcast, hosts Sadie and Stauney dive into the fascinating life of Elizabeth Taylor. From her iconic roles in Hollywood to her tumultuous personal life, including her infamous seven husbands, Taylor's story is one of glamour, resilience, and reinvention. Join us as we explore her impact on the film industry, her …
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Episode #38: Miaow, by Benito Pérez Galdós
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1:19:40Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss MIAOW by Benito Pérez Galdós, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa, and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we will discuss The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our …
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One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve
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1:33:42Langdon and Eden discuss the too-often bland and safe nature of science fiction and fantasy before diving in to a work that's anything but, "One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve"! Body horror, familial obsession, and finally being at peace with yourself mix in this arresting and clever novella about a man sawed in half!Music played:Rintrah - Fearful…
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The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
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1:11:33Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan (1971), the second Earthsea novel, is the subject of this episode. Joining Una and Andy is writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce, current Children’s Laureate. We look at how Le Guin shifts her story from the adventures of Ged in A Wizard of Earthsea to the inner life of Tenar, a girl taken to serve as High Priestess in …
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The Fate of Ophelia: The Art and Symbolism of a Tragic Muse
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42:40Today on More than a Muse, Stauney and Sadie talk all things Ophelia, a character whose symbolism and artistic representation have captivated audiences for centuries. In this episode, we explore the layers of meaning behind her tragic story, examining how artists and writers have interpreted her character through various lenses. A highlight is John…
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The Poet Who Never Held Her Tongue: Dorothy Parker
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43:07This week on More than a Muse, join Stauney and Sadie as we delve into the fascinating life and works of Dorothy Parker, the iconic American poet, writer, and critic known for her sharp wit and keen observations. From her early days at the Algonquin Round Table to her enduring legacy in literature, we explore Parker's most celebrated works and the …
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Leonora Sansay lived through the last chaotic years of the Haitian Revolution - but the book she wrote about it would tell an entirely unexpected story. Join returning guest Dr. Maria Windell as we explore the fascinatingly "messy-complicated" life of novelist Leonora Sansay - and uncover a fascinating link with "almost-Founding Father" (and 21st c…
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