Story Girls

Feb 03 2022 20 ep. 70 mins 37

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A fortnightly podcast about books, with a dash of absurdity.

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S3 Episode 5: Butter Honey Pig Bread

Feb 03 2022 63 mins

This is a book about love, sex, healing, family, food, and home. Its gorgeous prose and vivid characters make it one to revisit again and again. Join us as we try to decide who is the true bolter here.

S3 Episode 4: Gods of Jade and Shadow

Jan 20 2022 63 mins

A romp through 1920s Mexico with the Mayan god of death. Spoilers abound!

S3 Episode 3: Lolly Willowes

Dec 21 2021 62 mins

Our bolter this week is Laura "Lolly" Willowes, in a wondrously witchy book about female desire and agency.

S3 Episode 2: Circe

Dec 07 2021 87 mins

In which Circe bolts from godhood, and we get into the nitty gritty of Greek mythology.

S3 Episode 1: The Pursuit of Love

Nov 24 2021 65 mins

Our theme for S3 is...Bolters! So, naturally we are kicking things off with Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love, featuring a character known only as "the Bolter."

S2 Ep 8: Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers

Oct 25 2020 103 mins

An in-depth look at the final book in the Peter-Harriet quartet, Busman's Honeymoon.

S2 Ep7: Gaudy Night

Oct 09 2020 129 mins

S2 Ep 7: Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

S2 Episode 6: Have His Carcase by Dorothy L Sayers

Sep 21 2020 71 mins

Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers

S2 Episode 5: Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

Sep 09 2020 88 mins

We commence our DLS quartet!

S2 Episode 4: More Work for the Undertaker

Mar 18 2020 79 mins

More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham is our book this fortnight, and so we take a highly enjoyable trip through an eccentric, absurd, and Dickensian London with amateur detective Albert Campion and his companions. It's a complex, slightly fantastical mystery, but as usual with the Golden Age writers, evoked with deep insight and acute observation. Margery Allingham wr