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Podcast: The Shift with Sam Baker
Episode: Deborah Harkness on witches, wising & the cancer diagnosis that upended her life
Description: My guest today is the creator of the global bestseller and smash hit TV adaptation, The Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness. Now, I’m not sure if you know this about me, but I’m a bit obsessed with all things witchy, and I’ve been a devotee ever since the proof of the first book landed on my desk and I tumbled headlong into the world of Diana Bishop. Can you say, ob-sessed?But before all this Deborah was a scholar. A historian who teaches the history of science at the University of Southern California, she is an...