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Dr. Leith Davis Julianna Wager Lyon in Mourning Podcast TTT Scotland Season 5

Season 5 Episode 12:  Julianna Wagar on the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion and the Lyon in Mourning Project

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, Say, could that lad be I? Merry of soul he sailed on a day Over the sea to Skye. Billow and breeze, islands and seas, Mountains of rain and sun, All that was good, all that was fair, All that was me is gone. Sing […]

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Myths & Legends Podcast TTT Season 5 Storytelling Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene

Season 5 Episode 11: Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene on Dead of Winter and Creating Epic Stories

“As the moon cast its light on simple grave markers, the air was split by a sliver of pale gray light. It shimmered like the giant star sapphires of ancient Tiglath. Thunder pealed. The splinter of light seemed to bulge forward and retract, again and again, until it shattered as if lightning had struck. The […]

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Catherine Cavendish Podcast TTT Season 5 Shehanne Moore William Shakespeare

Season 5 Episode 9: Macbeth’s Witches Chant with Shehanne Moore and Catherine Cavendish

Welcome to Tea Toast & Trivia Thank you for listening in. I am your host, Rebecca Budd, and I am looking forward to sharing this moment with you. The 400th anniversary of the first folio of Macbeth is set to take place in 2023. Published in 1623, the first folio is considered one of the […]

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Aging Joy Podcast TTT Rachel McAlpine Season 5

Season 5 Episode 8: Rachel McAlpine A Poet’s Voice on Aging

What is your job? What is your job when you no longer have a job? What is your work when you don’t go to work any more? When you retire you gain such a lot—like freedom and time and multiple choice. You left with relief so why this incongruity of grief? Work gave you friends, […]