About
We produce well-researched and crafted narrative podcasts, with our own special twist. We build stories we love, with an edge and sense of fun – packed full of intriguing insights, original music, heart-rending life choices, cinematic and literary mysteries, and more. Sara-Mae Tuson is the Senior Producer, and Beth Keehn, Mike Scott, Geraldine Elliot and Katherine Hofmeyr all help to make the podcasts as good as possible.
We're currently running a crowdfunding campaign to help us finish season 2: Heyer Today - featuring Stephen Fry, authors Joanne Harris, Harriet Evans, Emma Darwin, and best selling novelist Mary Jo Putney, amongst others. Support us here
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SEASON 1: - Bronze winner 2018 British Podcast Awards
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The Sugar Baby Confessionals: a candid, sexy podcast
“One way or another, you always pay for sex.”
We’ve all read about it in the glossies – young girls becoming Sugar Babies, swapping cash and gifts for sex, to pay their way through university. Well, what if your best friend – your best, married friend – embraced the sugar baby lifestyle – not by necessity, but by choice? Sara’s best friend, Ruby, did just that. Sexy? Scary? Judge for yourself.
In the Sugar Baby Confessionals, the girl talk gets candid as Sara and Ruby talk about love, sex and life as a Sugar Baby – the pleasures and the pitfalls. You’ll meet Ruby, her friends, her Sugar Daddies and her husband. We reveal all in The Sugar Baby Confessionals.
Listen to Episode 1 now!
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On Stitcher Radio:
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/fable-gazers/the-sugar-baby-confessionals
or Player FM:
https://player.fm/series/the-sugar-baby-confessionals-episode-1
Highlights:
- Lush original music from Danny Green of LAISH, Kristen MacClement, Laura Frances, Ricky Damiani (Mock Deer) and Scarlet Starlings
- A special interview with The Brit – Ruby’s favourite sugar daddy
- Guest appearances from fabulous journalist Bibi Lynch and ex-sex worker, writer and comedienne Miranda Kane
- Sex tips from a pro (well, Ruby)
- Interview with a feminist psychology expert who weighs in on the effects of being a sugar baby
- Interviews with US-based sugar baby, Madelaine, on making the most out of your… assets
Press
"I am highly addicted to this show right now… I just love it.” – Sara DaSilva, Audible Feast
Awards
- Bronze award winner in the ‘Sex & Relationships’ category in the 2019 British Podcast Awards!
- ‘Finger in the Pie’, first published as a short story in The Norwegian American, won through to the Leipziger Hörspielsommer audio drama fest in July 2019
We’ve been featured guests on the following podcasts and radio shows:
- Bibi Does Soho – Soho Radio
- Good Sex, Bad Sex with Bibi Lynch and Miranda Kane – Being a Sugar Baby
- Flixwatcher: Episode#066 Love & Friendship
- Flixwatcher: Episode #056 Their Finest
Podcast review blogs and magazines
- The Times Magazine, Saturday 9 November: "Top 10 Confessional podcasts"
- Sara DaSilva of Audible Feast: Best podcast series of 2018: Entertainment category
- Rivkah Brown recently interviewed Ruby about forthcoming movie, The New Romantic, for Dazed and Confused magazine.
- Featured in the 7 December Podnews newsletter
- The South African – Two antipodean women turn to podcasting to tell stories
- InkTears – Sugar Babies & Writers: an interview with Sara-Mae Tuson
- Jane Austen Society – Two Austen fans podcasting to tell the story of Georgette Heyer today
SEASON 2:
Heyer Today: a podcast about Georgette Heyer - support our crowdfunder here
“I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.”
As a bestselling author, Georgette Heyer hasn’t been out of print since 1921 – so why hasn’t Hollywood snapped up her plots for a big screen franchise?
- Jane Austen – 6 best-selling Regency romances; 6 major screen adaptations.
- Georgette Heyer – 34 best-selling Regency romances; 0 major screen adaptations.
One major film producer has been trying to get the first major screen adaptation of Heyer’s ‘The Grand Sophy’ made for years, but what’s been standing in the way? We’ll investigate the difficulties facing film makers when it comes to period work, plus, find out what the uber-Heyerites think of Sophy’s choice.
Discover what Hollywood producers, Australian biographers, British national treasures and worldwide readers think about Heyer’s popularity and lack of success on the screen. And join super-fans and newbies as they discover and discuss some of the top-selling novels of our time – in Heyer Today.
Highlights include:
- Actor Stephen Fry on how he came to be hooked on Heyer
- Author Joanne Harris on why adapting books into film can be problematic
- Producer Andy Paterson discusses a mystery project and the difficulties of bringing Heyer’s work to the screen
- Best selling historical romance novelist, Mary Jo Putney, on writing Regency romance through a 21st century lens
- Peter Buckman, the agent for Heyer's estate, on his joy in adapting Heyer’s work
- Romance novelist Harriet Evans lists her all-time favourite Heyers and why
- Susannah Fullerton, head of the Jane Austen Society in Australia, compares Austen and Heyer
- Acclaimed biographer Jennifer Kloester shares some anecdotes about her journey in discovering never before seen letters from Heyer and doing Heyer justice
- Blogger Eleanor Turner (Jane to Georgette) discusses Heyer related on-dits and crim cons
- Comedians who’ve never read Heyer, fall in love (or not!) with her work
- Author Jane Holland and literary agent Alison Bonami from LBA on Heyer’s greatest romantic heroes
- Audio drama inspired by Heyer’s life
- Music from the incomparable Emma Gatrill plus original music composed especially for the podcast