Ep 11: Farah Mendlesohn, Fattypuffs and Thinifers and Lightfall
Follow Farah on Twitter. Farah is also a co-chair for the Eastercon 2024 bid Farah co-authored Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction with Michael Levy, and is the author of The Intergalactic ...
26 Nov 20211h 2min
”More funny than Thomas Hardy”: John Coxon, Rebecca‘s World and Flora & Ulysses
Rebecca’s World by Terry Nation As John states, there is an Audible audiobook of Rebecca’s World, read by Paul Darrow, who was indeed Avon from Blakes 7. Flora and Ulysses by Kate di Camillo. There ...
11 Nov 202152min
Ep.9 ”Not your average hawk”: Tamora Pierce‘s Tortal universe with Ruth Hunt
Guest: my colleague Ruth Hunt. Find out more about Ruth and her research here Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce The Tortall universe in chronological order- though ne...
30 Okt 20211h 3min
Episode True 8- Virginia Preston, cricket, cake and nuns
Antonia Forests’s The Cricket Term Daisy May Johnson’s How To Be Brave Fantasy Book Swap episode with Daisy The Dickens novel that we couldn’t remember was Dombey and Son, where an annoying child doe...
17 Okt 202157min
Episode 7 ”No booty call for Merlin”: Tiffani Angus on Mary Stewart‘s The Crystal Cave and James Clammer‘s Why I Went Back
Content warning for non-explicit discussion of sexual violence and mental health crises including sectioning. Recorded live at FantasyCon, so there is background noise of 3D humans, including some sou...
28 Sep 202149min
Episode 6 Fran Dowd: Puffin Club, Hobberdy Dick, The Wee Free Men and More!
Show notes Episode 6 Hobberdy Dick song by Rod Anderson https://www.reverbnation.com/rodanderson The Wee Free Men (from Steeleye Span’s Wintersmith album) https://youtu.be/ybsZpSn1grg Sheffield Scie...
18 Sep 20211h 9min
Episode 5 Daisy May Johnson, Five Children and It and The Time of Green Magic
Unfortunately, we had technical difficulties recording this episode, so it is slightly shorter than usual. Quick correction: Nesbit’s relationship doesn’t seem to have been poly. It has been described...
6 Sep 202139min
Episode 4 Steve Brooks The Trigan Empire and Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl The Graphic Novel
CONTENT WARNING- this episode discusses racism and orientalism in the context of children’s comics. Look and Learn Book of The Trigan Empire 1973- Some Trigan Empire books have been republished by Reb...
30 Aug 20211h 7min
