The Handmaids' Tales

This week, Frances Wilson plunges into two biographies of the self-mythologising mystery man Edgar Allan Poe; and Will Eaves joins us to read his poem 'The Cat'.'Darkness Becomes Bright: The haunted life (and afterlife) of Edgar Allan Poe', by Emily Ogden'Edgar Allan Poe: A life' ...  Show more

This week, Tristram Fane Saunders praises the form-busting brilliance of new Nobel Laureate Anne Carson; and Lily Herd on shooting stars, shipwrecks and hubris through the ages.Produced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Its been a weekend filled with partying.  From the rodeo themed Halloween party to celebrating 10 years of Radio Andy, with the whole team.  I catch you up on everything. Then we get into your calls.  Starting with a woman who believes in the spirit world, someone struggling w ...

This Week: “Persepolis” author/filmmaker Marjane Satrapi laughs in the face of death… satirist Fran Lebowitz plays Nanny to America… author Emma Straub narrates a Hollywood fable… multi-Oscar-winner Ve Neill makes up a Makeup list… and Brendan inhales info about air. Plus, a visi ...  Show more

The ladies discuss Hawk Tuah Girl, Alice Munro's dark secret, and the George Stephanopoulos and James Carville postmortems of Biden's debate performance.