Circa Sunday Night
42 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Say goodbye to sleeplessness and the "Sunday Night Dreads." Direct from Circa19xx.com comes Circa Sunday Night, a quirky little show that explores an idealized version of yesterday as an escape from the turmoil of today. Come along as we discover intriguing stories from history, shop amazing antique stores and markets, explore beautiful mansions and places of note in yesteryear, immerse ourselves in the forgotten music of times gone by, and get acquainted with the glittering personalities, artists, writers, and taste makers of the early 20th Century. It's time travel for the imagination--and the cure for insomnia. It's Circa Sunday Night. If you like the show, and aren't afraid to admit it, won't you please leave a favorable review on your favorite podcast platform? Jennifer, our host, needs almost constant affirmation.
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Episode #32: Vocabulary Lesson
August 30, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBGather 'round, everybody. Class is now in session. Our subject: a lesson in vocabulary. Yes, Jennifer is defining for us terms that are part of the Circa 19xx Land vernacular. What's Crystal made of, and why it is called "crystal"? When is something considered an antique? When is it vintage? Which came first: Art Deco or Art Nouveau? And what in the world is a "whiplash curl"? You'll be able to astonish your friends with your grasp of trivial knowledge after tonight's show. As is...
Episode #31: Jennifer Tours Newport!
July 16, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBJennifer dropped off the face of the Earth--but she's back now (after three months, but who's counting?). She's been touring mansions again--this time in Newport, Rhode Island. She recounts her adventures for us and answers the question: what is it like to spend the night in a big, 150-year-old Victorian gothic mansion ALONE? She also shares with us some tips for decorating our own Gilded Age-inspired ballrooms. There's a jam-packed itinerary for our little junket to Rhode Island, but th...
Episode #30: The Bunny Show
April 10, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBThe world is such a harsh place, and life is very hard. But you know what isn’t hard? Fluffy bunnies. Tonight Jennifer does a deep dive into her favorite bunny story: The Velveteen Rabbit. She’ll also take a look at a song right out of Circa 19xx Land that also has ties to Jennifer's memories of the 1980s. And then she'll share with you what she hopes the Easter bunny brings to her this year in her Easter basket. She has a wish list—and everything on it is cool vintage stuff. Let’s h...
Episode #29: For Your Reading List: The Enchanted April
March 26, 2022 20:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBJennifer has become enchanted with April. Wait, no, that's not quite right. She's over the moon about a book she just discovered entitled The Enchanted April. Yeah, that's it. This book has been around for 100 years, but it just now made it onto Jennifer's reading list and she's now wondering where it has been all her life. Written by Elizabeth Von Arnim and inspired by her stay in 1920 at Castello Brown, a beautiful Mediterranean fortress in Portofino, Italy, The Enchanted April was pu...
Episode #28: Mental Detox: A Virtual Retreat
March 06, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 45 MBHuh? The title of this episode doesn't sound like something one would find in Circa 19xx Land. Well, Jennifer got a notion; Blame an off-the-cuff remark in Episode 27 for this one. She said something in that episode that tickled her own fancy...and here we are. In tonight's show Jennifer leads us on a virtual retreat in which we clean out our heads of toxic muck only to fill them up again with good, wholesome stuff. Dust off your old school notebooks and find a pencil, because we get ass...
Episode #27: Let's Talk About the Gilded Age
February 22, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBOops! Jennifer forgot the show was called Circa SUNDAY Night, and posted this week's episode on Monday. But, we'll forgive her this time because tonight's show is all about the Gilded Age in New York, and as this episode of Circa Sunday Night goes up, a new episode of the HBO drama The Gilded Age is airing as well. Wait...could this have been part of her brilliant plan all along? We'll never know. But what we can say is that tonight's show is weird. One minute we're talking about Dow...
Episode #26: Voyage Aboard the Prinzessin Victoria Luise
February 05, 2022 21:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBTonight Jennifer confronts the winter blues head-on with an imaginary excursion on the ill-fated Prinzessin Victoria Luise, the first ship designed specifically for pleasure cruising. We're traveling back to 1901 for this little trip, and on that maiden voyage, everything is glittering and beautiful--just as it should be. But, as is so often the case (and why is that? Jennifer wonders...) tragedy looms large in the future of our lovely ship. A crash, a suicide, on-board pandemonium (or no...
Episode #25: 2021 Christmas Party
December 18, 2021 14:00 - 2 hours - 84.9 MBCome on over to Jennifer’s house for her annual Christmas party! There’s plenty of cheesecake—and really bad egg nog—to go around. Olive will be there to greet you at the door, and if you can somehow make it past her, you’ll encounter an interesting collection of guests, such as Steve Allen, the first host of the Tonight Show, and the Anderson family from the old radio program Father Knows Best. Jennifer talks Christmas movies, plays a little game of Christmas movie trivia, and counts dow...
Episode #24: Leroux's Phantom
December 05, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBWelcome to Jennifer's latest obsession: The Phantom of the Opera. Her sister forced her to watch the 25th Anniversary stage production at Royal Albert Hall from 2011, and she fell hard for the show. To learn more she read the original novel by Gaston Leroux, she watched a couple of classic film adaptations from 1925 and 1943, and basically immersed herself in all things Phantom. Before she realized that Leroux's book was published in 1910 she lamented the fact that Phantom as a topic wa...
Episode #23: Halloween Spooktacular
October 18, 2021 11:00 - 2 hours - 88.2 MBJennifer loves prowling around and researching old stuff, so it’s only natural—or should we say SUPERnatural —that she would run into a ghost story now and then. Tonight she takes us on a tour of the murkier regions of Circa19xx Land to meet a few of their less corporeal inhabitants. Tonight's itinerary: We take a spin around the phantom ballroom at the Overlook Hotel (you know how Jennifer loves a good ballroom); Jennifer then takes us to the creepiest haunted mansion she has actuall...
Episode #22: Old School
September 19, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 80.2 MBWARNING: Dorky content ahead. (Some might argue that all Circa Sunday Night episodes should come with this warning, but perhaps this one is dorkier than most.) Tonight we’re going to take a peek into the exciting world of vintage school materials. Yes, materials that were used in classrooms to shape the youth of yesteryear and prepare them to inherit the world. OK, so this may not be everyone’s cup of tea. It IS Jennifer’s cup of tea, though. She was a teacher once, and made a very lo...
Episode #21: Zelda
September 05, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBJennifer goes on and on tonight about Zelda Fitzgerald, the subject of two books she has just read and the object of her current obsession. Was she a flapper or philosopher? Both, perhaps, as well as a dancer, a writer, a painter, a muse, and a girl who may have lost her mind but found her soul. It was inevitable that Zelda, that iconic "It" girl of the 1920s and wife of literary giant F. Scott Fitzgerald, would make an appearance in Circa 19xx Land; after all, the early Twentieth Cent...
Episode #20: Old South Florida
August 08, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBRoad trip, anyone? Jennifer's in Florida again, but this time she's nowhere near the Magic Kingdom. With Miami as home base, she's gassed up the rental car and set the GPS to a place (South Florida) and a decade (the 1920s) where she explores a beautiful old mansion and garden, a historic and spectacular swimming pool, and a glamorous prohibition-era hotel. Oh, and the highlight: Jennifer visits a crazy tourist attraction from the 1920s that she has dreamed of for decades. Does reality ...
Episode #19: Escape to Mayfield
July 04, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBJennifer fell in love with the sound of her own voice and honored it with the longest Circa Sunday Night episode ever produced. Tonight Jennifer (and her voice) take us to the sweet little burg of Mayfield, home of the Cleaver family. That's right--we're making a left on Pine Street, where we find Ward painting lawn chairs, June serving up lemonade, and Wally and the Beaver giving each other the business. It's all charming, and a balm for a weary world. Jennifer is wild about Leave it t...
VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Look at Your Average
April 18, 2021 20:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBWelcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 13. Jennifer has a fire going and her reading voice warmed up, so turn down the lights and pull up the covers. It's story time in Circa 19xx land. ...
VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - How to Succeed
April 04, 2021 20:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBWelcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 12. Jennifer has a fire going and her reading voice warmed up, so turn down the lights and pull up the covers. It's story time in Circa 19xx land. ...
VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - How to Be Decisive
March 21, 2021 20:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBWelcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 11. Jennifer has a fire going and her reading voice warmed up, so turn down the lights and pull up the covers. It's story time in Circa 19xx land. ...
Episode #18: 1,000 Beautiful Things
March 14, 2021 21:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBWoopsie! Jennifer had to switch gears at the eleventh hour and do a show that was nothing like she had originally planned. The masterpiece she had in mind didn't pan out, and she ran out of time. Never one to let the quest for perfection obliterate progress, she goes on with the show. Tonight is all about beautiful things, a theme drawn from an old musty book Jennifer picked up at her favorite thrift store this week called One Thousand Beautiful Things. With a title like that, how can w...
VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Living One Day at a Time
March 07, 2021 21:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBWelcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 10. Wait...what? We left off with Chapter 6. How did we get to Chapter 10? Well, Jennifer was so enthralled with the title of Chapter 10, she jus...
Episode #17: Mid-Century Polynesian Getaway
February 28, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 45 MBCirca Sunday Night Season 2 begins now! Jennifer has just crawled out of her winter-long hibernation and is yearning for warmer climes. In tonight's show she takes a little imaginary voyage to the islands, exploring a few kitschy tourist attractions of yesteryear along the way. Also new this season is a segment entitled "This week in Circa 19xx Land," (at least until Jennifer can come up with a better name), in which she talks about cool vintage stuff she's encountered lately. On the ro...
VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Overcoming a Sense of Inferiority
February 21, 2021 21:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBWelcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 6. Jennifer has a fire going and her reading voice warmed up, so turn down the lights and pull up the covers. It's story time in Circa 19xx land.
VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - The Value of Little Things
February 07, 2021 21:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBWelcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 5. Jennifer has a fire going and her reading voice warmed up, so turn down the lights and pull up the covers. It's story time in Circa 19xx land.
VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Rediscovering Your "Inescapables"
January 24, 2021 20:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBWelcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 4. Jennifer has a fire going and her reading voice warmed up, so turn down the lights and pull up the covers. It's story time in Circa 19xx land. I...
VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Faiths You Live By
January 10, 2021 21:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBWelcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 3. Jennifer has a fire going and her reading voice warmed up, so turn down the lights and pull up the covers. It's story time in Circa 19xx land. I...
VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Four Things You Must Have
December 27, 2020 21:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBWelcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 2. Jennifer has a fire going and her reading voice warmed up, so turn down the lights and pull up the covers. It's story time in Circa 19xx land. I...
VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Your Life is What You Make It
December 13, 2020 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBWhat! Is it February already? Two weeks ago Jennifer said her goodbyes in the wrap up of season 1 of Circa Sunday Night. She said we wouldn't hear her again for two months. But here we are...and here she is; the gang back together again, and Christmas hasn't even arrived. What's going on??? Enter the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has f...
Episode #16: 2020 Christmas Party
November 29, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBJennifer's the hostess with the mostest this week as she celebrates the season and visits Christmases past. She introduces tonight's show by once again stretching the bounds of an audio-only podcast to give a tour of both her home—all decked out for the holidays in vintage decor—and her hors d'oeuvre table. Eat up and be merry! This spread is all in your head and calorie free! As you settle in by the fire, you'll meet our celebrity guest: the abundantly talented (and long-deceased) ...
Episode #15: Mystery Mélange No. 2
November 15, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBJennifer couldn't settle on one particular topic for tonight's show, so she decided to throw together odd bits of news and ideas from around Circa 19xx Land, run those bits through the old salad spinner, and see how it all comes out on the plate. The result: our second "Mystery Mélange." If you've been listening to Circa Sunday Night over the last several months you know that we've served up a tasty mélange before: it's a mystery because you never know what each new segment will bring. W...
Episode #14: The Art of Adventure
November 01, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBJennifer read a quote in a magazine while on a flight to Orlando, Florida…and now we have an episode called “Art of Adventure.” Inspiration strikes at 35,000 feet. In tonight’s show Jennifer does something a real podcaster probably wouldn’t bother to try: explore early Twentieth Century illustrations in an audio-only radio show. It’s a subject that is all wrong for our format, but off we go nonetheless. The quote that suggested tonight’s topic was from Golden Age Illustrator N.C. Wyeth, ...
Episode #13: A Vintage Vacay
October 18, 2020 20:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBIs this the dorkiest podcast ever produced, or a sweet little virtual escape from a weary world? You be the judge. In tonight’s show Jennifer attempts to take you along on her vacation as she discovers cool vintage stuff in Florida. She’s at her home away from home this week—Walt Disney World—but she’s rented a car, so you know what that means: road trip! She actually takes two road trips, during which she shops an antique mall that is now officially a must-do whenever she’s in the Suns...
Episode #12: Serling Sunday Night
October 04, 2020 19:00 - 2 hours - 89.4 MBYikes! This is a long episode. Jennifer does the show she was born to produce: an exploration of Rod Serling's work. A life-long Serling fan, Jennifer indulges in a trip down memory lane to a television series she first fell in love with as a little girl: The Twilight Zone. But first, she explores themes Serling returned to again and again in his stories and breaks down two of his pre-Twilight Zone masterpieces--Patterns and Requiem for a Heavyweight to highlight the mastery with which...
Episode #11: Chintz and Mirrors
September 20, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBJoin us for a quiet night in to help Jennifer celebrate the pleasures of home. No one loves “nesting” more than Jennifer, so in this episode we look at nest-building from the perspective of two taste-makers from the early Twentieth Century: Elsie de Wolfe, who many consider the inventor of interior design as a profession, and Edith Wharton, who, when not writing classic American literature, poured her passion into home décor. Jennifer explores the curriculum of an interior design degree p...
Episode #10: Meet Anita Loos
September 06, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 46.9 MBWhat? Circa Sunday Night has actually made it to 10 episodes? It's a good thing podcasts aren't canceled like TV shows! Well,10 episodes may not seem like much of a milestone, but to Jennifer it's HUGE! When she first decided to jump into podcasting, even putting together one show was an overwhelming prospect. Now, if someone is so inclined (but honestly, who would be?) he or she could listen to Jennifer gab away for more than 10 hours straight. Goodness. Anyway, we're going back to Ho...
Episode #9: Mystery Mélange
August 23, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBIn the physical world, Jennifer is as neat as a pin. In the electronic and digital world, she's a hoarder. If her computer was an actual room, TLC could build a reality show around her. She has amassed thousands of images, articles, stories, and mostly useless odds and ends over time--and the clutter is overwhelming. She has stuff tucked into obscure places all over her desktop and embedded in her library files, and the time has come for her to buckle down and start putting all of these ...
Episode #8: More with Ms. Harlow
August 09, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBIt turns out Jennifer wasn't quite ready to say goodbye to Jean Harlow. Since our last episode Jennifer read Harlow's one and only novel, Today is Tonight, and...goodness. There's a lot to talk about right there. Today is Tonight is a rare book, long out of print, so there isn't a lot of information available on the Internet about it. In tonight's episode we take a little stroll through that novel, lingering around some of the more embarrassing passages. Jennifer then profiles Harlow's s...
Episode #7: Jean Harlow, the Girl from Missouri
July 26, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBMeet Kansas City's hometown superstar! And no, we're not talking about Jennifer. Tonight's episode is all about Jean Harlow. In the 1930s, she was the biggest star around-- but what was she really like? Jennifer examines Harlow's life (and tragic early death) through her films and her storied legend. Come along as we jump in the Circa 19xx time machine for a tour of the 1930s Hollywood studio system, learn beauty tips from studio style gurus from that era, hear Jennifer's take on her fa...
Episode #6: Egyptomania!
July 12, 2020 19:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBQuick, call the doctor! Jennifer has an acute case of Egyptomania--a fascination for all things Egyptian...and Art Deco. In tonight's show we climb atop our camels and plod slowly along under the moon and the stars to the Valley of the Kings, and of course, because we're in Circa 19xx Land, we get to meet the British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter just as he makes his momentous discovery of King Tut's tomb. We talk about Egypt's influence on the Art Deco aesthetic, and even ...
Episode #5: A Life in Antiques
June 28, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBHave you ever dreamed of what it would be like to run away and join an antique mall? Ah yes...to set up a fabulous little booth, arrange all the pretty things, and wait for appreciative customers to arrive--and spend. Well, it doesn't work quite like that, but thousands of people have crossed over to the business side of antiques and flea markets, so what's it really like? In tonight's episode Jennifer profiles one man who has made a life for himself in the antiques business. She also sh...
Episode #4: Coco Chanel - A Primer
June 14, 2020 19:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBJennifer's feeling pretty stylish tonight, having just discovered that she owns a little necklace that had been designed by Coco Chanel. The Chanel Look is classic, timeliness, and borne out of the early 20th century--smack in the middle of Circa 19xx Land--so of course her life deserves a profile on the Circa Sunday Night podcast. In tonight's show Jennifer provides a few tips (and a shopping list!) for adopting Chanel's style. We also take audio tours of Chanel's Paris flat on the Rue C...
Episode #3: Route 66 and Other Road Trips
May 31, 2020 23:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MB*Note: This is a re-broadcast of an episode that aired on another platform in March, 2020. And another thing: this is one of the first podcast tapings I ever did. It's not great. I hope I'm learning, and that the episodes I'm taping now are better! When it comes to learning, you have to work through "bad" to get to "better," and, with a lot of work and a little luck, to "good." So, here we are, somewhere along the learning path--which I guess is appropriate, since this episode is all a...
Episode #2: Golden Age Hollywood - Marty (1955)
May 17, 2020 19:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBJennifer discovered, and fell in love with, a new (old) movie, and now she's dying to talk about it. The movie is Marty, the Academy Award-winning film staring Ernest Borgnine in the title role. Who knew Borgnine was such an amazing actor? Well, apparently everyone but Jennifer. He won an Oscar for this role, and he plays it so movingly and sweet that you just want to step inside that world and befriend him. Anyway, tonight's show is an homage to Marty, but there are other segments thro...
Episode #1: How to Create a Vintage Gallery Wall
May 03, 2020 14:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBPilot Episode! Jennifer is in decorating mode as she slowly transforms her new little cottage into a home, one room at a time. In tonight's show she talks about decorating with vintage dog illustrations and sets forth some guidelines for creating a gallery wall. There are other topics up for discussion as well: Are podcasts the sleep aid we have all been waiting for? Stay tuned until the end, when Jennifer shares her Favorite Thing This Week. Episode 1 Show Notes - How to Create a Gall...