by Lucy Hounsom | October 20, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSome of our favourite heroes are characters who might be deemed less than heroic by society. Smugglers, reckless hot-heads, gamblers and gangsters – everything that law and order should squash at the earliest...
by Lucy Hounsom | August 4, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhile World War 2 saw greater opportunities for women on the home front while so many working-age men were away at war, there are many more examples of hard times bringing curbs on women’s rights. We only have...
by Lucy Hounsom | April 28, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFairy tales are both timeless and personal. We see their themes and motifs repeated in stories spanning centuries.But while the characters and scenarios might be familiar, the morals change over time. The story’s...
by Lucy Hounsom | April 14, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhen Madeline Miller published Circe, it heralded the start of a new wave of feminist retellings, in which writers revisited well-known classics in order to tell the stories of those excluded from the dominant...
by Lucy Hounsom | March 17, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe tale of Cinderella – or the Cat Cinderella, or Aschenputtel – is a story that is found in many cultures throughout the world. The extraneous elements may change – sometimes there’s a ball,...
by Lucy Hounsom | March 3, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt’s high fantasy. You know the drill: personalities are defined by race. Elves are pointy-eared snobs who are unbearably pretty, orcs are barely sentient lap dogs, dwarves love gold and mining… And this...
