Heyer Today

Welcome to Heyer Today, Fable Gazers' epic podcast series all about Regency romance goddess, Georgette Heyer. This week, Sara-Mae attempts to convert two musical babes to Heyer's work.

Barbara Bartz is one of the most sought after fiddle players in the London Alternative Folk music scene, and Emily Lee is an up and coming singer songwriter – both of them could easily be Heyer heroines.

Both ladies were kind enough to meet me at my home studio (before lockdown) and chat all about one of my favourite Heyer novels, Venetia.

Barbara is also a masters graduate of literature, and an ardent reader of poetry, so Sara-Mae couldn't wait to leap in and dissect this fab novel with them…

Added to this we look at Heyer's life at the time she wrote the novel, and learn more about her favourite book cover illustrator, Arthur Barbosa. Plus, we have audio drama magic as Sarah Golding and Karin Heimdahl play Heyer and her friend Carola Oman discussing Charlotte Bronte's heroes.

If you'd like to join in on the action do check out our reading list, where you'll find all the books we're covering.

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*Correction: we say Georgette was writing Venetia in the early 60s but she actually wrote it in 1957/8.

This week on Heyer Today, Sara-Mae is chatting to not one, but two fabulous authors of magic-inflected Regency fiction.

Garth Nix (Old Kingdom, Seven Towers and Keys to the Kingdom books) discusses how his book Newt's Emerald was a homage to Heyer, as well as giving us his list of top Heyer-inspired fantasy works.

Zen Cho, our other guest, is a UK-based Malaysian author. Her books Sorceror to the Crown and its sequel, The True Queen, are full of a Heyerian sensibility, but include magic, feminism, dragons and fairies.

We also explore LGBT strands in Heyer's work and fan fiction inspired by this sort of subtext, and as usual, both authors discuss their favourite and least favourite Heyers.

Read our guests list of recomendations here.

Get more info about our guests here:

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http://www.garthnix.com

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Welcome to Heyer Today, the podcast all about Regency romance queen, Georgette Heyer. This is a book club episode in which host Sara-Mae Tuson hoodwinks two Heyer virgins into reading The Tollgate.

Our guests are comedian Glen Tickle and Jaclyn Green-Stock. Glen is a comedian and writer from New Jersey. He's performed around the US at festivals and colleges, and has appeared on Amazon Prime, SiriusXM, Cozi TV, and The Travel Channel. He co-hosts the podcast Improvised Wikipedia.

Jaclyn is a major Jane Austen fan, so Sara-Mae thought this would be a slam dunk. Hmmm, not so much.

Our fabulous voice actors are Sarah Golding as Heyer and Karim Kronfli as her husband, Ronald Rougier.

Check out their work here: https://sarahgoldingvoiceactorandmore.weebly.com and https://www.podchaser.com/creators/karim-kronfli-107ZzkFiMb

The music used in this episode is from Emma Gattril's wondrous album, Chapter I as well as Jerome Alexander's luscious Message to Bears tunes. Original music was composed especially for the podcast, by myself and Tom Chadd.

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Welcome to the second half of Fable Gazers' Season 2: Heyer Today, in which I interview knowledgeable experts and fans about underappreciated Regency romance queen Georgette Heyer

This week, we'll be talking to the President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia, Susannah Fullerton. She's also an OAM recipient (Order of Australia) as well as a member of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Added to this, she's a marvellous author and literary historian who is an expert on both Austen and Heyer. Together we discuss people's perceptions of Heyer (a poor man's Jane Austen? Pah!), the future of Heyer critique and what makes Heyer great.

Our second guest is book blogger Eleanor Turner, who's website 'Jane to Georgette' is really informative about Heyer and her works, as well as the comparison between Heyer and her idol, Austen.

Joanne Harris reads her charming short story especially for Fable Gazers in this special bonus episode. Enjoy this delicious, tongue-in-cheek take on Georgette Heyer's style.

A kerfuffle in the farmyard causes figurative feathers to fly - will Daphne, the dowdy hen, win her reluctant rooster?

Get Joanne's latest book, ORFEIA, now. An exquisite fey fable, it tells of a mother's journey to find her daughter, no matter what the cost.

We're taking a wee break to work on the second half of the season and make it as good as it can possibly be. We'll be back in a few months' time with episodes 13-25 to finish telling Georgette's story and solve the mystery of why her books have yet to be made into films. In the meantime, read the books on our reading list, and rate, review and recommend!

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It's another book club episode! This week Sara-Mae talks to Jojo Thomas – a trained Co-Active coach, and master hypnotist, plus Aiden Truss. He's a novelist and copywriter, who is into sci-fi and edgy post-modern literature. Will either of them fall for Heyer's delightful, frothy classic? The score so far is six yays to two nays.

Also this week, Georgette faces the media at a Tatler party. She and Pat have a gossip about the literati, and to her chagrin, Georgette is mistaken for Dame Edith Bagnold…

Remember there are spoilers so do read the book before listening…

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This week Sara-Mae chats to Heyer biographer and novelist, Jennifer Kloester. As a world-renowned expert on Heyer, they discuss the mysteries of Heyer's life, her relationship with Ronald, plus Jen's journey to creating her great work - and the friendships she made along the way.

Listen, as Jen regales us with fascinating stories about fellow Heyer biographer Jane Aiken Hodge and Georgette's son, Sir Richard Rougier, as she widens the aperture through which we get to see Heyer's life.

Articles cited:

Heyer Films: Mythconceptions - All Things Georgette: https://jenniferkloester.com/2-heyer-films-mythconceptions-things-georgette/

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In this week's book club episode on The Quiet Gentleman, we try and convert 'corporate misfit', competitive power lifter and comedian, Dom Patmore, as well as Sara-Mae's cousin Talitha, who is also a digital strategy mogul and yoga teacher. But will they fall for the charms of this romantic Regency thriller?

Also this week, we find Georgette having the difficult task of breaking off her relationship with long-time father figure and agent, LP Moore…

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This week we chat to film producer Andy Paterson and agent for Georgette Heyer's estate Peter Buckman, as we try to unravel the mystery of why Heyer's books haven't been adapted for the screen. Andy, who has produced such luminous hits as Girl With A Pearl Earring and The Railwayman, chats to us about his latest project, and Peter Buckman elaborates on the more frustrating elements of metamorphosing a book into celluloid…

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