S1E2-Gytha Lodge: Blood

In Episode 02, we have invited the Sunday Times bestselling writer and multi-award-winning playwright, Gytha Lodge, and asked her, ”What’s your word?”. She chose “blood”.

Now, for a crime writer, that’s a very fitting choice, wouldn’t you agree? In the interview, Paul and Gytha discuss the word ”Blood”, and explore its meaning from many different angles… we hear about the often ‘bloody’ implications of crime, the making of a pact, ‘blood’ as an emotional connection, and an unbreakable bond, to fragility, mortality, transfusion, brotherhood and sisterhood. It’s fascinating to see how the word blood weaves its way through Gytha’s work.

Then, haunted by the word “blood”, our Language Detective Balnur investigates its gripping origins and shares some thrilling connotations of that word in her native Kazakh, while Yuliya goes on a hunt for hair-rising, spine-chilling, mind-opening and heart-racing “blood-stained “traces in music, theatre films and arts.

In the arts and culture, there are many works that are drenched with blood. Dare to find out more? Then prick your ears and let yourself be submerged in this episode, which is our Halloween-special edition. We promise, there are no trick-or-treats, just pure audio pleasure.

 

Hosts: Paul Mangell, Yuliya Stancheva, Balnur Zhexeni

Producer- Yuliya Stancheva

Sound design: Alpha Studios

Sound engineers: Gerard Rodriguez and Mikosh Nanasi

Art design: David Stanley

Vocals: Stan Stanchev

Guest: Gytha Lodge is a Sunday Times bestselling writer and multi-award-winning playwright who lives in Cambridge. She is the author of Little Sister, She Lies in Wait, Watching from the Dark, and Lie Beside Me. She studied English at Cambridge University and received an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia.

After studying creative writing at UEA, she was shortlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize and the Arts' Council England fiction awards and developed a large online following for her young adult and children's writing, with over seven million reads accrued on platform Wattpad.

Her debut novel was a Richard & Judy Book Club Pick. With nail-biting cases that hook you in, and heart that keeps you coming back for more, Lodge's highly acclaimed Jonah Sheens series - which also includes Watching from the Dark, Lie Beside Me and Little Sister - has kept readers gripped from beginning to end, and Lodge has been acclaimed as 'a gifted writer' by Daily Mail.