The Virginia Woolf Podcast

About The Virginia Woolf Podcast

Dr Karina Jakubowicz talks with writers, artists, and academics whose work has been influenced by the modernist writer, Virginia Woolf. To learn more, head over to https://substack.com/@woolfintheworld This podcast is made in association with Literature Cambridge, an independent educational organisation that provides university-style lectures on a wide range of literary subjects. Head to https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk for more info.

Publisher

Karina Jakubowicz

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Jun 2022

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026

   Anne Fernald on her new book 'Her Own Voice'

   Send us Fan Mail Anne E. Fernald is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (2006) and is the editor of the Cambridge University Press Mrs. Dalloway (2014) the Norton Critical Edition of Mrs. Dalloway (2021), and the Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf (2021). This episode focuses on her most recent book, Her Own Voice, a study of eight women writers who broke with tradition.&n...

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   3 Oct 2026

   The View from Talland House

   Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, Karina heads out to St Ives, Cornwall to see the view of Godrevy lighthouse from Talland House for the first time. This famous landmark features in Woolf's novel, To the Lighthouse, and people come from all over the world in order to see it, but sadly the view is set to be destroyed by a new block of flats that is now in the process of being built. Karina speaks with the gardener at Talland House, Polly Carter, who has been organising events to ...

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   23 Jun 2026

   Night and Day on Film with Director, Tina Gharavi

   Send us Fan Mail The first film adaptation of Woolf's 1919 novel, Night and Day has just been released with a glittering cast including Jack Whitehall, Sally Phillips, Lily Allen, and Timothy Spall. Karina discusses the film with its director, Tina Gharavi, and they touch on the politics of period dramas and the gender disparity that still exists in the filmmaking industry. To learn more about Literature Cambridge, go to https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk or follow them on: ht...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

16 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

28 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100

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Quality

63

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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