Beetroot Podcast

Beetroot Podcast

Lottie Mcilduff

Episodes 21
Avg. Duration 37m
Activity Highly Active
Since Sep 2020
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Schedule
Semi-Annually
Format
Episodic
Hosting
anchor.fm

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About This Podcast

Beetroot is a poetry podcast hosted by Marta Mcilduff and Lottie Walker. In each episode they present poems to each other as literary gifts. The pair dissect, swoon and weep; uncovering the joys of poetry for a new generation of literature lovers.

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Recent Episodes

Beetroot, Home with Hala Alyan and John Clare

Dec 15, 2025 57m

Welcome back to the Beetroot podcast. Come on in, make yourself at home. On this weeks episode Marta and Lottie take the time to ruminate over what home means to them. Both in new spaces, they…

Beetroot, Cinema with Frank O'Hara and Diana Marie Delgado

Jan 05, 2025 48m

Happy New Year seedlings! Beetroot Podcast is heading into 2025 with a bobby dazzler of an episode. Spotify for podcasters is calling it a ‘triumph’ and we’re inclined to agree. This week Marta and…

Beetroot, Preservation with Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Natalie Rose Richardson

Oct 27, 2024 40m

Can you pickle a poem? This week Marta and Lottie have reunited to discuss all things preservation. Museums, archives, cheeses and sauerkrauts. We're diving into what it means to keep something alive…

Beetroot, Dear Dolly - The Poetry of Parton

Apr 18, 2024 42m

We've come a long way to this day. Lottie and Marta will be welcoming Dolly Parton with open arms to today's epsiode. A country queen and literary philanthropist, we decided to place her upon the…

Beetroot, Lists with Wendy Cope and Claes Oldenburg

Feb 13, 2024 49m

Today we’re going to talk about what’s on our lists and what’s in our poems. When we make lists, we export our universes onto the page – ticking off the tasks as we go, as we live. Lists for love,…

A Very Beetroot Birthday

Nov 01, 2023 45m

It’s our anniversary dinner – and you’re all invited! We’re 4 years old? My time flies when you’re just two friends chatting about poetry – whether it's face to face or computer screen to computer…

Beetroot, Natalie Shapero & Homer

Sep 18, 2023 44m

Reunited and rejuvenated! A summer spent apart and now they’re back, Lottie and Marta are in the same postcode at the same table. In this episode they go off the grid, deciding to abandon a themed…

Beetroot, Heartbreak with Pablo Neruda & Victoria Chang

May 19, 2023 39m

Till podcast do us part! Marta and Lottie are back, in this episode they'll be talking about heartbreak. Marta and Lottie (and their feelings) will dissect that funny sensation called heartache.…

Beetroot, The Senses with Alycia Pirmohamed & Erica Gillingham

Sep 08, 2022 43m

Reunited at last! Marta and Lottie are in the same room, with the same zoom. In this episode it's all about the senses, Marta and Lottie dive head first into an ocean of taste, sound, sight, texture…

S2E5 Beetroot, Family with Mary Jean Chan & Robin Coste Lewis

Jun 16, 2022 38m

If anyone asks, we're a perfectly normal family. In this week's episode, Lottie and Marta ask; what does it mean to have difficult conversations with our loved ones, what lessons have we learnt so…

S3E1 Beetroot, Rest with Ocean Vuong and Hannah Sullivan

Feb 14, 2022 37m

In this Episode, Marta and Lottie sit back and relax. Exploring the idea of rest the pair come to Ocean Vuong's 'Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong' a heartfelt appeal to the self when you're feeling a…

Beetroot, Paradise with Roger Robinson & John Donne

May 20, 2021 30m

In this Episode, Marta and Lottie look to the skies. Approaching the idea of Paradise the pair consult Roger Robinsons 'A Portable Paradise' an offering of pocket sized bliss and white sandy beaches…

S2E34 Beetroot, Inaugural Poetry with Amanda Gorman

Apr 20, 2021 32m

Poetry made headlines. Yes, it happened - rarely have we seen a poet on the cover of Vogue, shared widely around Instagram and Facebook or popping up on international TV stations. We of course had to…

S1E3 Beetroot Live! Poetry in Public - Paul Éluard

Jan 25, 2021 22m

The public has become precarious. In a post-pandemic world, those foundational moments of collective expression, collective joy, must be reformulated, alchemized into something new and…

S1E2 Beetroot Live! Poetry in Public - Czeslaw Milosz

Jan 24, 2021 25m

The public has become precarious. In a post-pandemic world, those foundational moments of collective expression, collective joy, must be reformulated, alchemized into something new and…

S1E1 Beetroot Live! Poetry in Public - Alice Oswald

Jan 23, 2021 24m

The public has become precarious. In a post-pandemic world, those foundational moments of collective expression, collective joy, must be reformulated, alchemized into something new and…

S2E5 Beetroot, Sex with Sappho & Jenny Hval

Nov 28, 2020 34m

Lets talk about sex baby! This week Marta and Lottie delve deep into all things sensual. Yes, poetry can be sexy. Lottie brought along a fragment from the Ancient greek poet Sappho, an exploration…

S2E4 Beetroot, Healing with Stuart Henson & Anne Sexton

Nov 14, 2020 31m

Breathe. It’s been a tough week. Lottie and Marta are taking the time to heal, to bring each other poems that restore the soul and move the heart to reconsider. This week Marta brought along Stuart…

S2E3 Beetroot, Food with Allen Ginsberg & Li-Young Lee

Oct 30, 2020 33m

We hope you’re hungry. In this Episode Lottie and Marta prepare a poetic meal for you, with an appetiser of metaphors and side salad of groceries. Marta brought along Allen Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket…

S2E2 Beetroot, Goodbye with Natalie Diaz & Paul Éluard

Oct 15, 2020 37m

This week, Lottie and Marta brace the subject of Goodbyes. Bittersweet and agonising, until we meet again or the final farewell. We explored what saying goodbye means through the poems that were…

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Beetroot Podcast has published 21 episodes since September 2020, covering topics in Arts, Books.

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