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A Poet's Voice Ken Gierke Podcast TTT Season 5

Season 5 Episode 6:  Ken Gierke on A Poet’s Voice

warmth of a pale light found as clouds part rewarded while seeking the moon on a cool autumn night Ken Gierke, The Moons of Autumn, Word Weaving # 1: A Word Craft Journal of Syllabic Verse Welcome to Tea Toast & Trivia. Thank you for listening in. I am your host, Rebecca Budd, and I […]

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Classics Gothic Horror John Quinn Mary Shelley Podcast TTT

Season 5 Episode 5:  John Quinn on The Dundee Connection with Mary Shelley

“I lived principally in the country as a girl and passed a considerable time in Scotland. I made occasional visits to the more picturesque parts; but my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee. Blank and dreary on retrospection I call them; they were not so to […]

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Podcast TTT Sarah McBurnie Season 5 Shetland Up Helly Aa

Season 5 Episode 4: Celebrating Up Helly Aa with Sarah McBurnie

January 31, 2023, the last Tuesday of January, the fire festival of Up Helly Aa is happening. A huge torchlight procession of hundreds of Vikings is marching through the streets of Lerwick, carrying flaming torches and singing traditional Norse skalds. Welcome to Tea Toast and Trivia. Thank you for listening in.  I am your host, […]

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Podcast TTT Robert Burns Scotland Season 5

Season 5 Episode 3: Celebrating Robert Burns & The Address to A Haggis

“Some hae meat and canna eat,And some wad eat that want it,But we hae meat and we can eat,And sae the Lord be thankit.” Robert Burns Robert Burns is one of the most important figures in Scottish culture and history. Every year, Scots and people around the world come together to celebrate the life and […]