Podcast Episodes featuring Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson remixes "Frankenstein" with AI, queer love, and cryogenics in "Frankissstein"

Decoder with Nilay Patel - January 15, 2020 05:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
Writer Jeanette Winterson talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her latest book, Frankissstein: A Love Story. Winterson discusses the intertwined histories of LGBT+ people, science fiction literature and technology; how she decided to write a modern twist on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with a te...

The Power of Poetry, with William Sieghart, Jeanette Winterson and Helena Bonham Carter

Intelligence Squared - March 09, 2018 00:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Poetry is the perfect medication against some of life’s challenges, so William Sieghart has found. In this accessible and warming exchange, from tea towel poems to T.S. Eliot, Sieghart brings to life a few of the experiences that inspired his book ‘The poetry pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescription...

Jeanette Winterson

My Classical Favourites - October 23, 2015 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Sarah’s guest this week is the author, Jeanette Winterson.

Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

World Book Club - August 03, 2015 10:21 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 335 ratings
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is Jeanette Winterson's searing yet ultimately uplifting coming-out, coming-of-age tale, in which a young girl learns to rebel against her fanatical, cult-like upbringing, and set out on her own path in life. To mark thirty years since its publication, here's anoth...

Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

World Book Club - June 02, 2012 08:06 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 335 ratings
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is Jeanette Winterson's searing yet ultimately uplifting coming-out, coming-of-age tale, in which a young girl learns to rebel against her fanatical, cult-like upbringing, and set out on her own path in life. To mark thirty years since its publication, here's anoth...

Jeanette Winterson

Bookclub - April 04, 2010 15:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 208 ratings
James Naughtie and readers talk to Jeanette Winterson about her breakthrough first novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, about a girl growing up in an Evangelical Christian group. This Spring Jeanette is celebrating twenty five years since the book was first published - the question the book ha...