The Worm Hole Podcast

The Worm Hole Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 95: Jennifer Saint (Atalanta)
April 07, 2024

Charlie and Jennifer Saint (Atalanta) discuss the forgotten story of the female member of the Argonauts - Jennifer's use of and changes to the various versions of the mythological story, including her

Episode 94: Elizabeth Fremantle (Disobedient)
March 24, 2024

Charlie and Elizabeth Fremantle (Disobedient) discuss the formative life, and Elizabeth's fictionalisation, of Artemisia Gentileschi, a woman painter from the 17th century. Please note that there are

Episode 93: Kristy Woodson Harvey (The Summer Of Songbirds)
March 10, 2024

Charlie and Kristy Woodson Harvey (The Summer Of Songbirds) discuss whether we should like her character, Lanier (who stops her best friend and brother being together); the various plot threads she le

Episode 92: Maggie Brookes (Acts Of Love And War)
February 25, 2024

Charlie and Maggie Brookes (Acts Of Love And War) discuss the small group of British Quakers who went to aid refugees during the Spanish Civil War, the way the war tore families apart as people chose

Episode 91: Stacey Thomas (The Revels)
February 11, 2024

Charlie and Stacey Thomas (The Revels) discuss English Civil War era witch hunting which includes the methods, the propaganda, and the awful theatre of it all. We also discuss Stacey's inclusion of ac

Episode 90: Celina Baljeet Basra (Happy)
January 21, 2024

Charlie and Celina Baljeet Basra (Happy) discuss the experiences undocumented migrants to Western Europe face, French film director Jean Luc Goddard's seminal film Bande Part, Indian talkshow Koffee

Episode 89: Rachel Abbott (Don't Look Away)
January 07, 2024

Charlie and Rachel Abbott (Don't Look Away) discuss young carers and the guilt they can feel, trafficking in Cornwall - both fact and fiction - and having her series' policewoman staying in the backgr

Episode 88: Karen Hamilton (The Contest)
December 10, 2023

Charlie and Karen Hamilton (The Contest) discuss the specifics of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and the vast support crews, her ridiculously privileged holidaying characters and where their requests are

Episode 87: Radhika Sanghani (I Wish We Weren't Related)
November 26, 2023

Charlie and Radhika Sanghani (I Wish We Weren't Related) discuss having alopecia, healing from being a people pleaser and self-empowerment in general, and her comic novel which includes an ex-fiance t

Episode 86: Gill Paul (A Beautiful Rival)
November 12, 2023

Charlie and Gill Paul (A Beautiful Rival) discuss the working lives of and rivalry between businesswomen Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, and the antisemitism in the US during WW2. We also discu