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The Women Books & More’s PodcastThe Magic of Irish Storytelling: St. Patrick, St. Brigid & the Power of Story with Maria Gillen. Irish storyteller Maria Gillen shares the legends of St. Patrick, St. Brigid.
Award-winning Irish storyteller Maria Gillen joins Women, Books & More from Cork, Ireland, to share the magic and cultural power of Irish storytelling. A fourth-generation storyteller, Maria explores the enduring legends of St. Patrick and St. Brigid (Ireland’s matron saint) and why storytelling remains central to Irish identity.
Maria also co-hosts the podcast From Cork to New York with author and storyteller Jim Brulé, where ancient stories meet modern lives and cultures across continents.
In this episode, we discuss the power of story to connect people, guide the human spirit, and preserve cultural traditions. We also explore ...
2026-03-1132 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastAbigail Adams: Founding Mother, Women’s Rights Pioneer, and America’s First White House Resident. With New York Times Bestselling Author Stephanie DrayAs the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, we look beyond the Founding Fathers to the formidable woman who helped shape a nation from behind the scenes — Abigail Adams.
Often remembered for urging her husband to “remember the ladies,” Abigail Adams was far more than a presidential spouse. She was an early advocate for women’s rights, a critic of slavery, a manager of family finances and farmland during wartime, and a trusted political advisor during the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.
Married to John Adams — revolutionary leader, diplomat, and future president...
2026-03-0429 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastSolo Travel for Women Over 50: Wellness, Longevity & Healthy Aging with Carolyn Ray of JourneyWomanCan travel actually help you live longer? What if the secret to longevity isn’t just what you eat or how often you exercise but where you go?
In this episode, we explore the growing movement of wellness travel, slow travel, solo travel and the transformative power of journeys, especially for women over 50.
We’re joined by Carolyn Ray, CEO and Editor of JourneyWoman, a global resource founded in 1994 to support and inspire solo women travelers. It has grown into one of the most trusted platforms for women 50+ who want to travel confidently and independently.
2026-02-2529 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastClotheslines & Memories: Laundry, Home, and Everyday Life
Once upon a Monday, before clothes dryers hummed behind closed doors, the world of women paused for laundry day. A rope stretched across a backyard became a stage for white sheets lifting like sails, overalls drying in the noonday sun, aprons whispering in the breeze.
Whether it was truly a simpler time or simply feels that way in memory, the clothesline has come to symbolize a gentler pace. Neighbors chatting over fences. Children running between fluttering towels. The scent of soap and sunshine lingering long after the clothes were taken into the house.
In remembering...
2026-02-1809 min
The Women Books & More’s Podcast#1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greany talks about THE HARD LINE--his newest Gray Man thrillerTHE HARD LINE—the 15th in this best-selling series—starts with a blown safe house in Tunis. Then…the Gray Man barely escapes from an ambush in the jungles of Nicaragua. Now key members of the U.S. counterintelligence community are being assassinated—one by one—in their own neighborhoods. With the feds compromised, it’s up to the Gray Man and his team to stop the hit squads.
But eliminating professional kill teams may be the least of the Gray Man’s worries when he finds himself targeted by a legendary IRA (Irish Republican Army) assassin driven out of r...
2026-02-1126 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastA conversation with Darla Worden about Cockeyed Happy...Part 2Darla Worden is the Editor-in-Chief of Mountain Living magazine and Colorado Homes & Lifestyles magazine. She joins us to talk about Cockeyed Happy, her book about Ernest Hemingway’s summers in Wyoming with his second wife, Pauline.
This story is not well known. I mean…we can picture Hemingway in Paris. Fishing in Key West. Drinking rum at his favorite bar (The Floridita) in Havana. But…Wyoming?
From the book jacket: “In March 1928, after the phenomenal success of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway returned to the U.S. with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer...
2026-02-0429 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastPaula McLain, author of the NYT bestseller The Paris Wife, talks about Skylark (her newest book) and her favorite Paris haunts.Many of us have read and enjoyed The Paris Wife, a fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway’s marriage to the first of his four wives, Hadley Richardson. It was a New York Times bestseller. Now, Paula has written Skylark, another Paris-based book—two parallel stories, one taking place in 1664 and the other in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris. It is an uplifting book about the strength and resistance of the human spirit—and a page-turner and a really good read. It is Good Morning America’s Book Club pick for January 2026.
More about Paula McLain: paulamclain.com
Some of...
2026-01-2831 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastModern West is a new book that celebrates homes with contemporary style and regional authenticity in the American West…and the people who live in themThe American West is a geographical location—thick forests of pine and aspen, snowy mountains, alpine lakes, and sweeping vistas. But there is also the almost-mythical version of the American West—a vision of wide-open spaces where the “call of the wild” has resonated for centuries. This passion for living in the west is as strong ever.
Chase Reynolds Ewald (writer) and Audrey Hall (photographer) have collaborated on seven books—including American Rustic and Cabin Style. www.gibbs-smith.com
As they researched Modern West, their newest book, they noticed something interesting. “The nature of the ‘western dream’...
2026-01-2130 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastMarisa Churchill talks Secrets, Spells and ChocolateHere’s the story: The culinary world imagined by Churchill is full of closely guarded recipes and secrets that can create powerful spells. We are taken inside the Brindille School of Culinary Arts and Magic where we are enchanted by magic, mystery…and recipes.
About the author: Marisa Churchill (an award-winning pastry chef) was a contestant on Top Chef (Season 2), constructed the city of San Francisco out of Rice Krispies and chocolate for the Food Network’s Edible Cities Challenge, and hosted her own cooking show in Greece. marisachurchill.com
Good Fortune Cookies: marisachurchill.com/good-f...
2026-01-1428 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastWD-40, Gorilla Glue and a book about leadership by Garry RidgeI don’t normally interview business leaders. There are plenty of podcasts that do.
But…
I was introduced to Garry Ridge by a mutual friend who said I’d love reading his new book—Any Dumb-Ass Can Do It. I was intrigued, read the book and could hardly wait to talk with Garry.
It did not hurt that Garry had served as CEO of the WD-40 Company for 25 and made it a household brand. I mean everyone knows WD-40 now. I also learned that he served on the board of Gorilla Glue.
Why a...
2026-01-0729 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastAward-winning writer and photographer, Jackie Caradonio talks about The Inn CrowdThe Inn Crowd: Artistic Getaways and The Modern Innkeepers who Crafted Them is a gorgeous coffee table book—written and photographed by the incomparable Jackie Caradonio. Each of the images gives us a privileged peek into more than 20 unique and stylish inns. The accompanying stories describe each of the innkeepers, every one passionate about creating memorable experiences in a beautiful setting—from quaint escapes to luxurious retreats.
For more about The Inn Crowd: phaidon.com
For more about Jackie Caradonio: jackiecaradonio.com
2025-12-3130 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastA Child’s Christmas in WalesAs dusk descends on Christmas Eve, my family gathers to hear a recording of Dylan Thomas reading, A Child’s Christmas in Wales. His baritone transports us—though time and across distance—to his childhood Christmases in Swansea, Wales.
It gives me great pleasure to share my story with you.
Thank you for listening and supporting my podcast.
I wish you an abundance of peace and joy in 2026.
You can see photos and read more of my story at Everett Potter’s Travel Report
https://www.everettpotter.com/2024/12/a-childs-christmas-in-wales/
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2025-12-2413 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastTraveling and travel writing with the legendary Don GeorgeI am thrilled to talk with Don George. National Geographic calls him “a legendary travel writer and editor.” And he certainly is. He’s also the author of How to Be a Travel Writer and the founder of the annual (in August) Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference held in Corte Madera, California. It is a great conference for beginning travel writers to meet editors and for veteran travel writers to catch up with old friends.
Here are links for more information about topics we talked about in the podcast.
Geographic Expeditions trips le...
2025-12-1730 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastThe festive season has begun. Ice and Snow, Carols and Gingerbread, Letters to SantaIt all happens at Gaylord Rockies Resort—now through January 2, 2026. The sugarplum dreams of childhood rolled into one.
Andrea Lawley, Public Relations Manager at the Gaylord Rockies Resort—joins us to talk about Christmas at Gaylord Rockies. Always magical. Always fun.
ICE! Christmas is an immersive experience…much anticipated every year. The resort’s signature 17,000-square-foot attraction carved from more than 2 million pounds of ice by 30 master artisans from Harbin, China. Hand-carved icy scenes from Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! complete with interactive slides, tunnels, and the iconic moment when the Grinch’s heart grows...
2025-12-1019 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastWhat is Snowflake 2025 and why do whiskey fans camp out overnight to snag a bottle?Stranahan's Whiskey Distillery & Cocktail Bar is having a big party—Stranahan’s Snowflake Village Festival—December 5th and December 6th to celebrate the release of Snowflake 2025. The party is at the distillery in Denver. (200 S. Kalamath Street).
Hundreds of Strana-fans from across the country come to Denver for this event. They camp outside at the distillery to secure a bottle of the coveted Snowflake whiskey—released on Saturday morning and sells out in just hours. It may be cold outside but there are food trucks, bands and DJs, dancing, and whiskey tastings, of course.
If you are...
2025-12-0327 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastWe chat with EllynAnne Geisel, the apron archaeologist. Yes. That is a thing.The lowly apron is making a comeback.
The Guardian (British daily newspaper) notes: Emma Corrin wore a pink apron to a recent premiere, while Richard E Grant looked like a kinky fishmonger in a leather apron on the Miu Miu catwalk. Everyone on The Bear wears aprons. Younger generations have embraced the Cottagecore aesthetic—gardening, bee keeping, pie baking—and that usually involves wearing an apron.
Best-selling author of The Apron Book and ultimate apron collector, EllynAnne Geisel (she’s an apron archaeologist), chats with us about aprons. She’s collected more than 600 aprons and says tha...
2025-11-2628 min
The Women Books & More’s Podcast“Which came first…the chicken or the egg?” Jacques Pepin has the answer.Beloved chef Jacques Pepin joins us. He’s 90 and still cooking up a storm. And he has a gorgeous new cookbook THE ART OF JACQUES PEPIN—full of his favorite recipes and his own artwork. He likes to paint chickens…and to cook chickens and eggs. When asked “Which came first…the chicken or the egg?” He doesn’t hesitate. “The egg, of course.”
We caught up with him in his kitchen. He was sitting in front of a wall of pots and pans—all different sizes and shapes. There must have been 30.
As a young man in the Fre...
2025-11-1927 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastTO DIE FOR—A Cookbook of Gravestone RecipesRecipes written on tombstones. Who knew this was even a thing?
Most headstones list names and dates, in rare cases they include something much more personal: beloved family recipes permanently etched in stone.
Rosie Grant traveled the world to research and write a cookbook full of culinary epitaphs from across the globe—spritz cookies from Brooklyn, chicken casserole from Wisconsin, tea biscuits from Nova Scotia, fudge from Salt Lake City, meatloaf from Texas….
The list goes on—40 recipes--from soup (from Buffalo, New York) to nut rolls (from Israel).
On this journey, Rosie...
2025-11-1229 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastEverett Potter talks about 100 Train Journeys of a Lifetime + Paris tipsI love trains and travel by train at every opportunity. The Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver, the Eurostar from London to Paris, the mighty Indian Pacific from Adelaide to Perth. So…I was thrilled to hear that Everett Potter had just written a big and comprehensive book about trains, 100 Train Journeys of a Lifetime: The World’s Ultimate Rides.
Let me tell you a little about Everett Potter. He writes for numerous A-list publications like The Wall Street Journal, Conde Nast Traveler, Forbes, National Geographic, and he hosts Everett Potter’s Travel Report, a highly acclaimed digital site...
2025-11-0528 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastA conversation with best-selling author Caroline AlexanderCaroline Alexander is the author of internationally best-selling Skies of Thunder, The Endurance, The Bounty, and other works of literary non-fiction. In 2015, she published an acclaimed translation of Homer's Iliad, the first English translation (form the original Greek) of a Homeric poem by a woman.
Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World is a tale about the pilots who flew fickle, untested aircraft through monsoons and enemy fire, with inaccurate maps and only primitive navigation technology. There were deadly crashes (more than 600) and astonishing feats of courage and survival.
2025-10-2931 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastStill Alice by Lisa Genova from the archivesSince the moment I chatted with Lisa Genova about her new book, More or Less Maddy, I’ve been getting messages from you all, asking me to air the interview we did a few years ago when Lisa wrote Still Alice. Here it is—by popular demand.
For those who don’t know Still Alice, here’s the story: Dr. Alice Howland is a renowned linguistics professor at Columbia University. When words begin to escape her and she starts becoming lost on her daily jogs, Alice must come face-to-face with a devastating diagnosis: early-onset Alzheimer's disease. The once-vib...
2025-10-2228 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastIs Everything We Know about Sacagawea Wrong?Here’s what we think we know about arguably the most famous Native American women who ever lived: she was interpreter and guide for Lewis & Clark; she traveled 1000s of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean and she died tragically young.
But…what if everything we know about Sacagawea is wrong…including how we pronounce her name…
Sandra and Dennis Fox sit down to talk with us. They are married scholars, now retired from the educations division at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Dennis is a directly...
2025-10-1526 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastTailor made Travel with Black Tomato’s Carolyn AddisonToday, we sit down with Black Tomato’s Carolyn Addison to talk about travel.
Black Tomato is one of the world’s leading luxury travel companies. Carolyn is one of the standout female leaders at Black Tomato and is the driving force behind some of Black Tomato’s most imaginative and compelling travel experiences. She’s been called an “experience architect.”
She tells us about solo travel, mother-daughter travel, generational travel, and how to travel like James Bond or follow in the footsteps of Coco Chanel or Winston Churchill.
We also discuss staying safe while t...
2025-10-0828 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastBecoming a Badass…From Fearful to FierceMargie Goldsmith is one of the most accomplished women I know.
She has traveled to more than 150 countries on seven continents and written more than 1,000 award-winning articles about her adventures. You can read them in Forbes, National Geographic, the New York Times and many other publications. She is a film maker, a former marathoner and triathlete. She plays blues harmonica and jams with some of the most celebrated jam bands in New York City. She’s recorded two blues albums. You can listen here: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/margie-goldsmith/1603713611
She lives her life on...
2025-10-0123 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastA Conversation about Casting for RecoveryCasting for Recovery (a national nonprofit) delivers healing for women diagnosed with breast cancer that traditional medicine alone can’t offer — powerful, oncology-informed weekend retreats held on a river, not in a hospital room. CfR celebrates its 30th anniversary and currently hosts 60 free fly-fishing retreats in all 50 states, serving over 800 women each year. Women at any age and any stage off breast cancer treatment or recovery, are eligible to apply.
Susan Gaetz, CfR’s Executive Director, tells us about the organization, how it started and what to expect from a weekend retreat. castingforrecovery.org
Sisters on the...
2025-09-2431 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastA conversation with Darla Worden about Cockeyed HappyDarla Worden is the Editor-in-Chief of Mountain Living magazine and Colorado Homes & Lifestyles magazine. She joins us to talk about Cockeyed Happy, her book about Ernest Hemingway’s summers in Wyoming with his second wife, Pauline.
This story is not well known. I mean…we can picture Hemingway in Paris. Fishing in Key West. Drinking rum at his favorite bar (The Floridita) in Havana. But…Wyoming?
From the book jacket: “In March 1928, after the phenomenal success of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway returned to the U.S. with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer—the stylish Vo...
2025-09-1728 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastLet's write a picture book---Julie Hedlund tells us howMaybe you want to write a book. A children’s book. A children’s picture book.
Maybe about a wee hedgehog who wants to be a ballerina.
Or an alligator who dreams of becoming an astronaut.
Maybe about learning to cook in Nona’s kitchen.
Or a nonfiction book about the secret language of spiders
I mean…how difficult can it be to write a book for children?
The answer is…not as easy you might think.
But help is on the way...
2025-09-0834 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastThe President's Vampire by Christopher FarnsworthThis one’s out of the vault and one of my favorite vampire stories. It is the second (in a series of five) President’s Vampire books by Christopher Farnsworth. It is about a vampire that works for the president of the United States. The book was published in 2011 so the president referenced could have been President Obama or it could have been West Wing’s President Bartlet. The story is paranormal but with a lot of buddy-cop action—if you can be buddies with a 140-year-old vampire. The plot is simple: the world is going to end, and it is up...
2025-09-0328 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastShanghai Girls by Lisa SeeOK. OK. Thank you for your messages. I get it. Everyone wants more Lisa See.
So today...I dove deep into the vault and found this interview—Shanghai Girl—from 2009. It is about the complex relationship between two sisters who live a privileged life in 1930s Shanghai—full of great wealth and glamour and called The Pearl of the Orient. Twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister May beautiful, modern, and having the time of their lives because their father can afford it. He’s a very rich businessman… until the day their father tells them that he has gam...
2025-08-2727 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastA Conversation with author Lisa SeeNew York Times best-selling author Lisa See is Chinese American—although her tawny hair, freckles and pale skin belie her Asian heritage. Starting 30 years ago with family memoir, On Gold Mountain, her books always are drawn from and reflect her cultural roots.
She talks with us about some of her favorites: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (secret writing developed by women best-friends in 19th century China), The Island of Sea Women (a community of women—some as old as 80—who free-dive for abalone on the remote Korean island of Jeju) and Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (b...
2025-08-2031 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastHeidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates Daniel Klein Thomas CathcartThis is one of my favorites from the vault. It originally ran on my radio show more than 10 years ago. I just listened to it again and laughed until I got the hiccups. How can talking about death be funny? Listen in and you’ll find out.
Here’s the story: From angels to zombies and everything in between, Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates is a seriously funny take on the philosophy, theology, and psychology of death. Deep thinkers like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Camus, Sartre and, yes, Heidegger have been wrestling with the meaning of d...
2025-08-1330 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastSisters on the Fly: We Have More Fun Than AnyoneHere’s the story: Sisters on the Fly was started by two real-life sisters, Maurrie Sussman and Becky Clarke, who loved fly fishing, camping in their vintage trailers, a glass of good wine, campfire cooking, and playing poker for pennies. They invited their friends to join them and soon there were 20. Pretty soon there were 100. “When we started, we wanted to bring women together as best friends and sisters of the heart,” says Maurrie.
And...just like that…it is 25 years later and there are more than 24,000 Sisters on the Fly—in nearly every city and town in the U.S...
2025-08-0630 min
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2025-08-0601 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastMore or Less Maddy by Lisa GenovaLisa Genova a best-selling author and Harvard-trained neuroscientist. I talked with her for her book about Still Alice—an emotional look at Alzheimer’s. I’ll look in “the vault” to find that interview for you. Still Alice was made into a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore. She won an Oscar for her role as Alice Howland, a renowned linguistics professor descending into Alzheimer’s. The film is available on Prime Video, YouTube and Apple TV. Warning: keep a box of tissues handy.
Each of Genova’s books explores the mysteries of the human brain. Her newest book, M...
2025-07-3031 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastLove Child: Memoir of Family Lost and Found by Allegra HustonOne of my favorites from the archives.
Huston was born in London, the love child of a widely adored ballerina and the 2nd Viscount Norwich. When she was four, she lost her mother in an auto accident and was sent to Ireland to live with her mother’s estranged husband, the acclaimed, eccentric and intimidating film director John Huston. (The African Queen, Casino Royale, Prizzi’s Honor….)
“I was a motherless girl who never quite felt like I really belonged, a younger sister trying to find sense of self in the shadow of beauty and fame.” F...
2025-07-2827 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastHer Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed AmericaHere is one of my favorites from the archives.
So…you’ve probably heard of Abigail Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe, Annie Oakley and Eleanor Roosevelt. But what about the female mathematician who laid the groundwork for abstract algebra. Or the women of NASA who helped send John Glenn, the first American astronaut, into orbit.
From artists and writers to doctors, scientists and activists—Jill S. Tietjen’s Her Story is a beautifully illustrated book that spans more than four centuries and celebrates the many accomplishments of more than 900 unsung heroines of American history.
Tietjen is...
2025-07-2826 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastRescued Recipes - U.S. Holocaust MuseumThe Nazis were banging on the door. The Fenves family was about to be rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. Their gentile cook had the presence of mind to save the family recipe book by hiding it under her apron.
Chef Alon Shaya found the recipe book in the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. and was reunited with 93-year-old Steven Fenves, the lone survivor of the family. During the pandemic—hundreds of miles apart—they worked to recreate some of the recipes from the precious book. Steven translated from Hungar...
2025-07-2329 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastMidnight Black by Mark GreaneyWith his lover imprisoned in a Russian gulag, the Gray Man will stop at nothing to free her—in Midnight Black, Mark Greaney’s latest thriller in the NYT #1 bestselling Gray Man series.
A winter sunrise over the great plains of Russia is no cause for celebration. The temperature barely rises above zero and the guards at penal colony IK22 take their misery out on the prisoners—mainly on Zoya Zakharova. Once an master spy for Russian foreign intelligence, then partner and lover of the Gray Man, she has information the Kremlin wants and they don’t care what...
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2025-07-1401 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastDreamers of the Day by Mary Doria RussellThis is one of my favorites from the archives.
It is 1921 and a forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio comes into a modest inheritance and uses it to escape her tyrannical mother by taking a trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. She stays at Cairos’ Semiramis Hotel (It’s still there, now an InterContinental) just as the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference convenes.
She meets Winston Churchill, T. E Lawrence (Laurence of Arabia) and Gertrude Bell who, in a few days, randomly redraw the map of the Middle East. Their decisions cause conflict in the regi...
2025-07-1129 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastJan’s Story by Barry PetersenA favorite from the archives
Barry Petersen is a CBS News correspondent. He has reported on wars, natural disasters and royal weddings but his most difficult assignment was writing Jan’s Story—a personal account of his wife’s diagnosis (in her mid-50s) of early-onset Alzheimer’s.
It is a true story. It is a love story. Barry has put into words the daily struggle he had to face, caring for the love of his life and watching her fade away until she didn’t recognize him anymore.
He says: “I couldn’t let this magni...
2025-07-1130 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastThe White Garden: A Novel of Virginia Woolf by Stephanie BarronHere’s one of my favorites from the archives.
On a grey day in March of 1941, acclaimed British writer Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with heavy stones and walked into the fast flowing River Ouse. Her body was found three weeks later miles downstream. It was the tragic end of a brilliant novelist and essayist—one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. Or was it?
Six decades after Woolf’s death, landscape designer Jo Bellamy comes to Sissinghurst Castle (one of England’s most famous castle-estates) to study the famed White Garden created by Woolf’s l...
2025-07-1127 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastIsabelle Allende talks about Ripper and her other booksOne of my top favorites from the archive.
Isabelle Allende’s books are a seductive blend of magical realism, accurate historical details and exude the alluring scent of Chilean jasmine. She comes into my recording studio trailing the scent of sweet vanilla and something musky, perhaps sandalwood. We sit and talk like old friends—about books and life.
She revels that she puts on full make up, stockings and, shockingly, a girdle—plus other clothes, of course—just to walk down a path in her garden to her writing studio.
Chilean-American author Allende has writt...
2025-07-1028 min
American Civil War & UK HistoryAlbert Cashier With (Will Davis-Coleman & Patrick Courtney)Send a textAlbert Cashier With (Will Davis-Coleman & Patrick Courtney)In this episode of American Civil War & UK History podcast, host Daz is joined by Will Davis-Coleman and Patrick Courtney, the hosts of The Cloak and Dagger Podcast. Together, they discuss a Union soldier named Albert Cashier.Albert D. J. Cashier (December 25, 1843 – October 10, 1915), born Jennie Irene Hodgers, was an Irish-born American soldier who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Cashier adopted the identity of a man before enlisting, and maintained it until death. Cashier became famous as...
2025-06-161h 00
Les entrevistes musicalsLes entrevistes musicals: "Irene & François" 10-03-2020Somos Irene & François, duo de Folk. Todo empezó con un "Oh, miss Ohio.." cantado por Gillian Welch sobre la mágica guitarra de David Rawlings. Hemos estado persiguiendo ese sentimiento desde entonces. Inspirados por nuestros recuerdos y las vagas ideas del "qué hubiese sido si..." nos encontramos escribiendo canciones. Hemos tenido la suerte de poderlas cantar a dúo, disfrutando de la compañía de atentos oyentes en la joven y rica escena de Folk de Barcelona. Desde pequeños bares hasta teatros y festivales locales hemos ido compartiendo nuestra música, mientras hacíamos de nuestras vivencias, sueños y cancio...
2020-03-1044 min