Ep 41: Narnia Business with Katie Bruce
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Katie’s choice: C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
Ali’s choice: David A. Robertson’s The Barren Grounds
Katie is just back from FantasyCon! Next year Brighton hosts World FantasyCon 2025; come and join us!
Neil Gaiman’s short story is called ‘The Problem of Susan’ and is in the collection Fragile Things (it is of course entirely up to you whether or not you wish to support Gaiman’s work by buying it new or second hand.)
Katie couldn’t continue with Robin Hobb’s Soldiers Sons trilogy because the food descriptions brought on morning sickness
Fiona Moore’s blog, where she cooks from SFF cook books so we don’t have to!
Lovely Gili Bar-Hillel introduced me to this brilliant piece of fan fic where Anthony Bourdain reviews Narnian hospitality. Read it, it’s perfect! https://archiveofourown.org/works/137185
The BBC 1988 adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Trailer for Greta Gerwig’s adaptation
Tilda Swinton’s White Witch tempts Edmund
I delivered a paper on orientalism in the Chronicles of Narnia at a Historical Fictions Network conference. You can read it here
Scottish bannock recipe. Canadian First Nations Bannocks were adapted from Scottish recipes. I have not found a bison chili recipe; I assume that you first catch your bison.
Find Katie online
@Katiebruce.bsky.social on BlueSky
@Katiebrucecake on Instagram
I was a guest on Steve Vapour Trail’s radio show many moons ago with a selection of fantasy and science fiction-themed music. Enjoy the playlist here. Thank you to Danny for the idents, and to Jack Sadler-Johnson for the use of his beautiful track Bliss.
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