Year of Wonders Podcast Episodes
Written by Geraldine Brooks
27 Episodes - 358 pages - ★★★★ - 116K ratings
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A Year of Wonders
Outside/In - December 05, 2019 20:57 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 752 ratingsAs extreme weather wreaks havoc around the globe NPR's Throughline looks at a natural disaster more than 200 hundred years ago that had far-reaching effects. This week, how the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki awed, terrified and disrupted millions around the world and changed the...
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A Year Of Wonders
Throughline - November 21, 2019 05:01 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14.4K ratingsAs extreme weather wreaks havoc around the globe we look at a natural disaster more than 200 hundred years ago that had far-reaching effects. This week, how the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki awed, terrified and disrupted millions around the world and changed the course of history. Learn...
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Episode K: Year of Wonders (ch 13 - fin)
6 Ps Podcast (VCE English) - July 30, 2019 11:01 - 22 minutesMompelli-wrong Music theme: K-Pop Contact: [email protected] All materials used for educational purposes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jim-session/message
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Episode J: Year of Wonders (Ch 9-12)
6 Ps Podcast (VCE English) - July 29, 2019 08:05 - 30 minutesPoppies and Flagellants Music theme: Jams at Splendour 2019 Contact: [email protected] All materials used for educational purposes --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jim-session/message
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Episode I: Year of Wonders (Ch 4-8)
6 Ps Podcast (VCE English) - July 16, 2019 23:00 - 28 minutesSolutions to first section of the holiday homework Music theme: Indigenous artists Contact: [email protected] All materials used for educational purposes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jim-session/message
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Episode H: Year of Wonders (Chapter 1-3 overview)
6 Ps Podcast (VCE English) - July 03, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutesProper Plague Music Theme: Holidays Feedback: [email protected] All materials used for educational purposes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jim-session/message
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Episode G: Background information on Year of Wonders and The Crucible
6 Ps Podcast (VCE English) - June 23, 2019 05:00 - 24 minutesCompare this pair Music Theme: GOAT (Kanye) Contact: [email protected] All materials used for educational purposes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jim-session/message
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The Crucible and Year of Wonders Compared Episode 2 Revision Lecture
Call Me Watkins - October 17, 2018 05:31 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCall me Watkins went on tour. This is a podcast based on a revision lecture comparing ‘The Crucible’ and ‘Year of Wonders’ in preparation for the VCCA VCE English examination in Australia. The handout is available on Facebook.
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The Crucible and Year of Wonders Compared Episode 1 Gender
Call Me Watkins - October 03, 2018 12:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode compares the similarities and differences of gender representation in ‘The Crucible’ and ‘Year of Wonders’.
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Year of Wonders Ep 19 The Role of Women
Call Me Watkins - August 14, 2017 10:23 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode explores the role of women in 17th century.
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Year of Wonders Ep 18 How individuals and communities respond to adversity?
Call Me Watkins - August 13, 2017 09:32 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode looks the different responses to the plague. Why do some people become monsters and others heroes?
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Year of Wonders Ep 17 Language choices
Call Me Watkins - August 09, 2017 12:24 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis podcast explores the structure of the novel, the narrative voice and the language used by Brooks.
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Year of Wonders Ep 16 Epilogue
Call Me Watkins - July 08, 2017 12:04 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLife after the plague for Anna.
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Year of Wonders Ep 15 Apple-picking Time
Call Me Watkins - July 08, 2017 08:55 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe story has come full circle.
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Year of Wonders Ep 14 Deliverance
Call Me Watkins - July 08, 2017 07:38 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe plague has stopped.
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Year of Wonders Ep 13 A Great Burning
Call Me Watkins - July 08, 2017 07:14 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsElinor recovers from illness. The village burns their belongings. Aphra is punished.
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Year of Wonders Ep 12 The Press of the Ghosts
Call Me Watkins - July 08, 2017 05:17 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPeople respond to fear in a variety of ways.
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Year of Wonders Ep 11 The Body of the Mine
Call Me Watkins - July 07, 2017 02:47 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJoss acts as the gravedigger.
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Year of Wonders Ep 10 Among Those That Go Down to the Pit
Call Me Watkins - July 06, 2017 11:25 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMichael feels to burden of his role physically and spiritually. Anna and Elinor become miners.
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Year of Wonders Ep 9 The Poppies of Lethe
Call Me Watkins - July 06, 2017 09:23 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAnna takes poppies to forget. Elinor shares her history with Anna.
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Year of Wonders Ep 8 So Soon to be Dust
Call Me Watkins - July 06, 2017 01:53 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMaggie Cantwell and Brnad have been forced back to the village by mob violence. Anna has a confrontation with her father.
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Year of Wonders Ep 6 - Venom in the blood
Call Me Watkins - July 05, 2017 07:44 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMem dies. Mompellion inspires the village to accept a voluntary quarantine.
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Year of Wonders Ep 5 - Sign of a Witch
Call Me Watkins - July 05, 2017 06:46 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFear breeds rage in Eyam. Rage becomes an ugly mob as the villagers turn on the Gowdies.
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Year of Wonders Ep 4 - Rat Fall
Call Me Watkins - July 03, 2017 12:58 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Plague spreads
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Year of Wonders Ep 3 - The Thunder Of His Voice
Call Me Watkins - July 03, 2017 12:58 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe role of women in a patriarchal, puritan hierarchical society is revealed. The Plague is named.
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Year of Wonders Ep 2 - Ring of Roses
Call Me Watkins - July 03, 2017 12:56 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSpring 1665. Ring of Roses offers an insight into village life before the plague. Then the terrible beginnings of the Black Death.
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Year of Wonders Ep 1 - Apple Picking Time
Call Me Watkins - July 03, 2017 12:54 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAn introduction to Year of Wonders.