The Worm Hole Podcast

The Worm Hole Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 75: Ronali Collings (Love & Other Dramas)
May 21, 2023

Charlie and Ronali Collings (Love & Other Dramas) discuss her relationship with her mother and where that influences her novel, racist comments and decisions in the workplace, and her experiences of f

Episode 74: Kristina McMorris (Sold On A Monday; The Ways We Hide)
May 07, 2023

Charlie and Kristina McMorris (Sold On A Monday; The Ways We Hide) discuss the harrowing photographs of children that inspired her last two novels, why she chose to focus - in the first book - on the

Episode 73: Orlando Ortega-Medina (The Fitful Sleep Of Immigrants)
April 23, 2023

Charlie and Orlando Ortega-Medina (The Fitful Sleep Of Immigrants) discuss the reality for LGBT asylum seekers in the US, Orlando's own experiences as a lawyer, and same-sex marriage rights now Roe v

Episode 72: Amita Parikh (The Circus Train)
February 26, 2023

Charlie and Amita Parikh (The Circus Train) discuss how Amita's dancing and performing experiences influenced her work, her controversial decision to have her wheelchair-using heroine learn to walk, a

Episode 71: Emma Cowell (One Last Letter From Greece)
February 12, 2023

Charlie and Emma Cowell (One Last Letter From Greece) discuss grief, miscarriage and expectations surrounding it, and, in keeping with her book's title, Greece and its culture. Some podcast apps do no

Episode 70: E C Fremantle (The Honey And The Sting)
October 09, 2022

She's back! Charlie and E C Fremantle (The Honey And The Sting) discuss producing a book that is utterly devoid - and then some - of filler, Black people of the Stuart era, and the film of Fremantle's

Episode 69: Cecelia Tichi (A Fatal Gilded High Note)
September 25, 2022

Charlie and Cecelia Tichi (A Fatal Gilded High Note) discuss the Gilded Age in its success and its crimes, her rebellious 1890s character who defies class, and the history of French Bulldogs. Some pod

Episode 68: Kate Glanville (The Peacock House)
September 11, 2022

Charlie and Kate Glanville (The Peacock House) discuss her main character who is 90 years old, and villains who aren't so villainous after all. Kate also discusses the way her dyslexia has effected he

Episode 67: Kristin Harmel (The Forest Of Vanishing Stars)
August 21, 2022

Charlie and Kristin Harmel (The Forest Of Vanishing Stars) discuss the true story, and Kristin's own fictional one, of a group of over a thousand Jewish people who during WW2 slowly escaped to and hid

Episode 66: Sally Page (The Keeper Of Stories)
August 07, 2022

Charlie and Sally Page (The Keeper Of Stories) discuss story collection, the forgotten mistress of the abdicated Edward VIII, and dogs who swear something chronic! Please note that there are some spoi