Show overview
Speaking with Joy has been publishing since 2019, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 100 episodes. That works out to roughly 75 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 36 min and 53 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 3.6 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. The busiest year was 2020, with 40 episodes published. Published by Joy Clarkson.
From the publisher
A weekly podcast that explores a weekly theme through three pieces of great art (literary, musical, and visual). For hopers, creators, and learners.
Latest Episodes
View all 100 episodesEp 162The Lost Birds, with Christopher Tin
A Conversation with Christopher Tin about extinction elegies, species loss, hope, and his new album with choral group Voces8.
Ep 161Klara and the Sun, Parts 5 & 6
Joy concludes the summer book club on Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, discussing part five with Sarah Clarkson, and reflecting on the final section herself.
Ep 160Klara and the Sun, Part Four
Joy discusses Part Four of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro with Michael Burdett and King-Ho Leung.
Ep 159Klara and the Sun, Part Three
Joy discusses Part Three of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro with James Smoker.
Ep 158Klara and the Sun, Part Two
Joy discusses Part Two of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro with Doctors Sarah and Jeremiah Coogan.
Ep 157Klara and the Sun, Part One
Joy announces the book for her summer reading club (Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro), and discusses the first chapter.
Ep 156Beauty and Her Sisters, with Ben Quash
Joy speaks with Professor Ben Quash about the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, theological aesthetics, and the Visual Commentary on Scripture.
Ep 155Imagining Our Neighbours, Mary McCampbell
Joy speaks with Mary McCampbell (who examined her PhD!) about how literature can help us cultivate empathy toward our neighbours, near and far.
Ep 154Expect the End of the World with Paul Kingsnorth
Joy speaks with Paul Kingsnorth, a man who has been many things in his life: a poet, an eco-activist, and eco-pessimist, a warlock, and most recently, an Eastern Orthodox christian.
Ep 153Accept Love with John Swinton
After a brief break to recover from Covid, Joy shares an interview with John Swinton where they speak about God's gentle, slow love, and how we should share that love with each other.
Ep 152Shakeshafte and Other Plays with Rowan Williams
Joy speaks with Rowan Williams about his new (and first) collection of plays, the power of words, and the art of David Jones.
Ep 151Be Like Mr Collins with Haley Stewart
Joy speaks with Haley Stewart about how Jane Austen's much maligned clergyman Mr Collins knows the secrets to an aggressively happy life.
Ep 150Tell Yourself a Good Story with Casey Fritz
Joy speaks with Children's book author and illustrator Casey Fritz about the parables of Jesus, the power of storytelling, the place of horror, and the way ET demonstrate the gospel.
Ep 149Enjoy Things Unironically with Boze Herrington
Joy speaks with Boze about guilty pleasures, BTS, the importance of wonder, and the power of enjoying things unironically.
Ep 148Remember You Have a Body with Jenna Reed
Joy speaks with Jenna Reed about why we forget we have bodies and what we lose when we do, the similarities between Manichaeism and the Netflix reality TV show Love is Blind, and gentle steps we can take toward a more integrated life.
Ep 147Dante’s Christian Ethics with George Corbett
Joy speaks with George Corbett about Dante Alighieri’s medieval literary masterpiece, the Comedia, and what it has to teach us about the search for direction in the dark wood of life and what it means to be human.
Ep 146Flounder Well
What do you do when you don't know what to do? When life is perplexing and no paths seem to lead anywhere? Joy discusses bewildering seasons through some of her favourite floundering art: a poem by Malcolm Guite, a song by Henry Jamison, a children's book by Barbara Cooney, and a movie with Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond.
Ep 145Befriend Sadness with Sally Clarkson
Joy talks with her mother Sally Clarkson about how sadness doesn't make us bad Christians, how to find light in dark seasons, and how to accompany others through sorrow.
Ep 144Befriend Sadness
Joy explores the theme of good grief through the journals of CS Lewis and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the swan song of Mozart, and the Irish animated film Song of the Sea.
Ep 143Christopher Tin, Everything Under the Sun in Tune
Joy talks with two time Grammy Award winning artist Christopher Tin about synecdoche, video games, the moon landing, Pink Floyd, and why music delights us.