{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6086d520cfb9e813fa7a63a9/635aa96b7cf277001151703b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Top Five Picks for a Haunting Hallowe-'en","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6086d520cfb9e813fa7a63a9/1619498838832-b9b888b7974be88b0999616b26774336.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>What does it really mean to be haunted? Is being haunted always a sinister experience? For this Hallowe'en episode, Linda considers</p><ul><li>memory and loss</li><li>trauma</li><li>and the nature of haunting and feeling haunted</li></ul><p>She considers, for example, <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2018/jul/30/emily-brontes-wuthering-heights-in-charts\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Bronte's nineteenth-century British novel <em>Wuthering Heights </em></a>(and <a href=\"https://ca.video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-ima-st_mig&amp;ei=UTF-8&amp;hsimp=yhs-st_mig&amp;hspart=ima&amp;p=catherine+bush%2C+heathcliff&amp;type=q3000_A0IHV_set_bcrq#id=7&amp;vid=2e52a4758a442563d27facc8a2bb55f2&amp;action=click\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Bush's song, \"Wuthering Heights\" </a>based on the novel) or <a href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Frankenstein\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Shelley's <em>Frankenstein </em></a>as examples outside of literature in Canada. But then she counts down to her top five books that either haunt her or delineate haunting experiences.</p><p><br></p><p>Which five works of literature in Canada make the cut? You'll have to listen to find out ...</p><p><br></p><p>In the \"Takeaway\" section, she recommends <a href=\"https://bcbooks.49thshelf.com/Books/A/All-My-Puny-Sorrows\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Miram Toews' <em>All My Puny Sorrows </em></a><em>- </em>an extraordinary novel that challenges us about what our responsibility to others is and means.</p>","author_name":"Linda Morra"}