SEASON 6 EPISODE 3: INHERITANCE

We all inherit something, whether we want to or not. It’s easy to forget that it goes beyond material things, so it was good to keep that in mind as we reframed our thinking while reading chapters 19-27 this week.

In this section, the Mage can’t budge Simon from staying in Watford, though he would dearly love to. Simon and Penny work on spells and wait for… something. Baz is still nowhere to be found, and Agatha and Simon finally, painfully break up. Simon gets a visitation from Baz’s mother, and promises to relay the message. Lucy still can’t quite get through….

This episode was recorded on 12 February 2022.  

Show notes

This week we’re reading chapters 19-27 through the theme of inheritance. If you’d like to read along with us, you can find the full breakdown here.

Here’s a link to the Welly Collective, and you can find out more about the artist Jen V mentioned here.

Find the The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai here on Booktopia.  

Learn more about whakapapa here.

And kaitiakitanga here.

Read more about the protests in Wellington. 

And more here about the Canberra protests (aka what a bunch of idiots).  

Here’s the artwork Jen V got:

We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where this episode was recorded - the Guringai and Darug people, and tangata whenua of Te Whanganui-a-Tara.

Our intro and outro music is by the excellent Scott Buckley. Check him out here.

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Thanks for listening! Next week, we’re reading Chapters 28-35 through the theme of control.