Ep. 6 - Kiran Millwood-Hargrave - Fiction, Witches, and Vanderpump Rules

Calm Down Dear

English - July 01, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 145 MB
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Previous Episode: Anna Kiernan - Writing, Waitressing, and Wild Swimming

Next Episode: Ep. 7 - Sophie Molyneux - Earlobes, Iiish, and Rory Gilmore's iffy decisions

In Episode 6 Becky and Sarah are joined by multi-award winning, bestselling author, Kiran Millwood-Hargrave. Amid serious author chat about plot construction and research on the witch trials which drove her brilliant novel The Mercies, Kiran chats with Sarah about Mastermind specialist subjects ranging from the gothic fiction of Shirley Jackson through to the feline language of her loveable cat Luna, and unexpectedly, much more besides.

Plus of course there's the weekly ramble from Becky and Sarah, full of poems, podcast recommendations and prose, and a good deal of shouting at patronising men.

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Links:

Watching

I May Destroy You - BBC iPlayer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000jyxy/i-may-destroy-you

Vanderpump Rules - https://www.bravotv.com/vanderpump-rules

Enrique Iglesias - Hero (yes, really) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koJlIGDImiU

Reading

The Mercies - Kiran Millwood-Hargrave - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Kiran-Millwood-Hargrave/The-Mercies/24070825

Staying Alive: Real Poems For Unreal Times/Being Alive/Staying Human - ed. Neil Astley - https://www.hive.co.uk/Search/Keyword?keyword=neil%20astley&productType=0

(Becky reads For Desire by Kim Addonizio)

How To Be Both - Ali Smith - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Ali-Smith/How-to-be-Both/14131231

Autumn/Winter/Spring/Summer - Ali Smith - https://www.hive.co.uk/Search/Keyword?keyword=Ali%20Smith&productType=0

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Shirley-Jackson/The-Haunting-of-Hill-House/359483

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life - Ruth Franklin - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Ruth-Franklin/Shirley-Jackson-A-Rather-Haunted-Life/20924146

Listening

Call In The Crash Team - LYR - https://store.universalmusic.com/mercurykx/*/*/Call-In-The-Crash-Team-Exclusive-Signed-Vinyl-Lyric-Book/6DWJ0000000

How To Proceed with Linn Ullman - Ali Smith episode - https://podtail.com/en/podcast/how-to-proceed/

We Will Get Past This with Sandi Toksvig - https://play.acast.com/s/we-will-get-past-this

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