by Lucy Hounsom | February 9, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe all know that the original versions of fairy tales are so much darker than the sanitised ones that got handed down to us by the moralistic Victorians. Some authors choose to create a story in a fairytale setting...
by Lucy Hounsom | January 26, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHaving started out writing a neighbourhood newspaper which she sold to buy candy and comics, Jane Yolen is now the author of over 400 books for children and adults. Jane has also worked as an editor, written poetry,...
by Lucy Hounsom | January 12, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMany of us grew up reading the myths and legends from Ancient Greece and Rome. We followed Herakles as he succeeded at one impossible task after another; we cringed when Orpheus turned round at the last moment so...
by Lucy Hounsom | December 15, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhen the film The Blood on Satan’s Claw came out in 1971, reviewer Rod Cooper called it “a study in folk horror.” In 2003, when director Piers Haggard was talking to Fangoria magazine about his...
by Lucy Hounsom | November 17, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe often talk about a woman in a man’s world, but what does this really mean – and is it accurate? What is a man’s world? A place where women are excluded from performing certain roles or jobs? Or are shackled to...
by Lucy Hounsom | October 20, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSome of our favourite heroes are characters who might be deemed less than heroic by society. Smugglers, reckless hot-heads, gamblers and gangsters – everything that law and order should squash at the earliest...
