Season 14, Episode 14 · Sentimental Garbage
His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife with Ella Risbridger
7 Aug 2025 · 1 hr 38 min
Season 14, Episode 14 · Sentimental Garbage
7 Aug 2025 · 1 hr 38 min
Lyra's back and she inexplicably has a new friend straight out of a Jacqueline Wilson novel. Phillip Pullman's The Subtle Knife tackles parallels worlds, god's existence, quantum physics, skull-drilling, and funding applications – and somehow is the greatest book for children over the age of eleven of all time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
by Justice for Dumb Women · English · Arts & Books
Sentimental Garbage is a podcast hosted by Caroline O'Donoghue about the culture we love that society can sometimes make us feel ashamed of. Formerly a chick-lit podcast, sometimes a Sex and the City podcast. We don't know the most, we feel the most. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m
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