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Podcast: Standard Issue Podcast
Episode: SIM Ep 341 Pod 100: The Mercies, Teatime and Closed Lands
Description: FANFARE PLEASE. It's our 100th podzine and, woman oh woman, is it a bumper banger. (Yes. Yes it is.) Kiran Millwood-Hargrave writes beautifully of women's experiences from history and The Mercies, her debut adult fiction (although don't think you're too old to read her children's and YA books), is no different, charting a 17th Century real-life devastating storm and imagining what happened in the three years between that and a real-life devastating witch hunt. She tells Jen all about The Mercies and its inspiration.Comedian, actor and writer Katherine Jakeways joins the team to talk spend...