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In the first episode of Season 2, Karina celebrates the centenary of Jacob's Room by visiting King's College, Cambridge. While there, we get a sense of where some of the Bloomsbury members lived while they studied at Cambridge, and explore the novel's relationship with death, memory, and the Great War.  

Karina speaks with novelist, Prof Susan Sellers and King's archivist, Peter Jones.

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Karina interviews Tanya Shadrick about Woolf's influence on her wonderful memoir, 'A Cure for Sleep'. The book explores what it means to have a near-death experience, the joy of having a second chance, and the power and labour of writing.

The interview takes place by Pells Pool in Lewes, Sussex, not far from where Woolf once lived. 

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Karina interviews drag king Holly James Johnston, who created a drag act entirely based on Woolf's character, Orlando. She regularly performs as Orlando and has spoken about what it means to apply Woolf's novel to the art of drag and dress. Her photographs for 'Adventures in Time and Gender' vividly reimagined what Orlando would have looked like during the 2020 lockdown.

https://adventuresintimeandgender.org/wormholes/orlando/

https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/news/profile-holly-james-johnston/

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In this interview, Karina talks to Shakespeare scholar and creator of the Women in Shakespeare podcast, Dr Varsha Panjwani. We discuss Shakespeare's huge impact on Woolf and her ambivalence about  masculine influence. We also dig into that mysterious character of 'Shakespeare's sister,' and ask whether such a figure could have existed in Shakespeare's day. 

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Karina talks with Prof Susan Sellers about her newest novel, Firebird, which documents the extraordinary life of ballerina and Bloomsbury icon, Lydia Lopokova. You can find a review of Firebird on the Literature Cambridge website.

Susan is an academic, writer, and translator. She the author of Vanessa and Virginia, a novel that gives a fictionalised account of the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. The work was adapted into a stage play by Elizabeth Wright. You can find an episode all about the novel in this series of the VW podcast. 

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In this podcast, writer Peter Fullagar and sculptor Laury Dizengremel talk to Karina Jakubowicz about the campaign to place a life-sized statue of Virginia Woolf at Richmond. The campaign was founded by Aurora Metro Arts and Media organisation. Recorded in spring 2021.

To support this campaign, head over to their fundraising page. 

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Karina talks with Prof Emma Sutton about the myriad of ways that classical music is relevant to Woolf's life and work. They discuss how innovations in early twentieth century music influenced changes in modern literature and how this music impacted on Woolf's writing process. 

Prof Emma Sutton a professor of English at the University of St Andrews, and has published widely on the relationships among music, literature and fine art in the nineteenth and twentieth century. She is author of Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s (Oxford, 2002), Virginia Woolf and Classical Music (Edinburgh, 2013). She is also Founding Director of the Woolf and Music project.  

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 Karina talks with Prof Maggie Humm's about her debut novel, Talland House. 

Talland House builds on Woolf's famous novel To the Lighthouse, exploring the Cornish art scene in the 1920s, expanding on the character of Lily Briscoe, and asking the ultimate question - who killed Mrs Ramsay?

Maggie Humm is an Emeritus Professor at the University of East London in the UK. An international Woolf scholar, she is the author/editor of fourteen books, the last three of which focused on Woolf and the arts. Talland House was shortlisted for the Impress and Fresher Fiction prizes (as Who Killed Mrs. Ramsay?) and the Retreat West and Eyelands prizes. 

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In this episode Karina chats with Prof Susan Sellers about her novel, Vanessa and Virginia, which explores the fascinating relationship between Virginia Woolf and her sister, the artist Vanessa Bell.

Susan is Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of St Andrews, where she teaches modernist and contemporary literature and creative writing. She won the Canongate Prize for Short Story Writing and her first novel, Vanessa and Virginia, has been translated into 16 languages and was adapted for the stage. 

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What would it be like to live in Monk's House, former home of Virginia Woolf?

Caroline Zoob and her husband Jonathan are some of the few people who know the answer to that question. They lived in Monk's House as tenants for the National Trust for over a decade, and in this episode they talk with Karina about what it was like to share their home with Woolf's legacy, dozens of volunteers, and seven and a half thousand visitors a year.

Caroline Zoob is an embroider and designer, she is also the author of Virginia Woolf's Garden: The Story of the Garden at Monk's House, which is published by Jaqui Small. 

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