{"podcast":{"title":"The Marlborough Book Festival","slug":"the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437","podcast_index_feed_id":6717437,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/marlboroughbookfestival/feed.xml","website_url":"https://marlboroughbookfestival.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/2239129/MBF_2025_final_colour-1_books7qbr2.png","author":"The Marlborough Book Festival","episode_count":81,"summary":"The Marlborough Book Festival is an annual readers and writers festival held in July in Marlborough, New Zealand. Listen to our podcasts to hear discussions with our featured writers, as they explain the challenges and the highlights of creating their various works and their lives as writers.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437"},"episode":{"title":"Catherine Chidgey - The Axeman’s Carnival","slug":"catherine-chidgey-the-axeman-s-carnival","published_at":"2024-03-21T00:17:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437/catherine-chidgey-the-axeman-s-carnival","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437","url":"https://marlboroughbookfestival.podbean.com/e/catherine-chidgey-the-axeman-s-carnival/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/enjkav/The_Axemans_Carnival_mixdown_final_MP37h202.mp3","summary":"An utterly believable mimicking magpie narrates this extraordinary story set in the beautiful yet harsh landscape of Central Otago. Catherine Chidgey discusses her inspiration for the novel, with its exploration of themes encompassing domestic violence, the challenges of farming, the weird world of internet fame, and the vagaries of human relationships with animals, which she suggests can be at once closely bonded and exploitative. Catherine was in conversation with Nikki Macdonald at the 2023 Marlborough Book Festival.","meta_description":"An utterly believable mimicking magpie narrates this extraordinary story set in the beautiful yet harsh landscape of Central Otago. Catherine Chidgey disc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3667,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437/episodes/catherine-chidgey-the-axeman-s-carnival/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437/catherine-chidgey-the-axeman-s-carnival.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}