The Portrait of a Lady Podcast Episodes

The Portrait of a Lady as a Mom

Mom Rage - October 02, 2018 02:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratings
Amelia and Edan swap life updates and then grapple with the Brett Kavanaugh hearing (the morning after it happened). They also listen to some amazing Labia Hotline callers, and read an email from a listener about a new way to think about the burdens of childcare costs. At minute 33:45, midwife S...

RE-ISSUE: The Portrait of a Lady - BA028

Broad Appeal - August 02, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
[On our summer break we happened to be in Lucca, Italy - and we also happened to stumble across one of the actual palazzos that Nicole Kidman walks through in Jane Campion's film!! That seredipitous event indicated it was time to share this vintage episode from our literary adpatation se...

The Portrait of a Lady - BA028

Broad Appeal - January 19, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
In which Brian & Seán read extended passages from Henry James and marvel at Barbara Hershey's collagen-injected lips. For the first in our series of female-driven literary adaptations, we tag along with Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman) as she fends off the advances of several suitors, only...

Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady'

Julian Girdham - June 18, 2009 17:43 - 37 minutes
Podcast 14: our final podcast of this academic year, just in time for some satisfying holiday reading, is an interview with former colleague John Fanagan, who talks about Henry James's great 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady. Set in England and Italy, the book examines the progress of the innocen...