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Standard Issue Podcast

Salty adventures with Francesca de Tores

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Author Francesca de Tores, who you may know better as Francesca Haig, was gripped when she happened upon the Wikipedia entry for 18th century pirate, Mary Read. A woman pirate? Damn straight, a woman pirate. And so began Saltblood, Francesa’s first work of historic fiction. Jen caught up with her to chat all things Mary, and navigating the male-dominated waters of swashbuckling adventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:18.0

UK Residents, Tease and sees apply. Standard issue for all women.

0:34.0

Hello and welcome to this week's Tuesday interview.

0:38.0

Jen here to tell you all about it.

0:40.0

But before I do, if you've not yet heard it, get your ass back to yesterday's interview. it.

0:43.0

Get your ass back to yesterday's interview to listen to the always excellent

0:47.0

Kiry Pritchard McClain, chatting to Owl Mick.

0:49.7

Coming up tomorrow is rated or dated in which we'll be joining Sharon

0:53.0

day Maggie Smith for tea with Mussolini. Part of that sentence sounds

0:56.8

quite good doesn't it the other part not so much.

0:59.5

Hannah and Mick will be talking you through the news in the Bush

1:02.2

Telegraph on Thursday and on

1:03.7

Friday it's a brand new outside the box but back to today in which I chat to

1:09.6

author an academic Francesco de Torres about her brand new book Salt Blod about Mary Reed, she of the

1:16.2

Golden Age of Piracy Fame. That is to say she was a pirate.

1:19.9

We chat about swashbuckling adventures, doing history and changing your name among

1:25.1

other things. Now Francesca as you will hear is an absolute delight and I do hope

1:30.6

that you enjoy our chat. I'm joined by novelist, poet and academic

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