The Podgoblin’s Hat Podcast
1) Bonus #12 Mary
In a podcast first, we are interviewing a Moomin fan who is still a teenager and discovered the Moomins through Pinterest! Mary talks us through the cottagecore appeal of the Moomins and the popular b...Show More
2) Bonus #11 Mendel Skulski
This episode's special guest is Mendel Skulski, a podcaster, mushroom-enthusiast and musician who wore an excellent Snufkin costume to a fancy dress party. We chat about climate collapse as depicted i...Show More
3) Bonus #10 Helen Zaltzman
For this Christmas-adjascent bonus, we're welcoming Helen Zaltzman, a podcaster and thinker about words. Helen came to the Moomins as a young child while she was devouring the entire contents of her l...Show More
4) Bonus #9 Hanna Wołoszyn
Our guest for this out-of-season bonus episode is Hanna: a lifelong Moomins fan and reader of the books in Polish! We talk about faithfulness in adaptation, the differences between the Polish and Engl...Show More
5) Cedric
And just like that, it's the end of the season! We're going out on a story that actually shows us what happens when someone has a problem and wonders "What would Snufkin do?" Sniff is inconsolable ove...Show More
6) The Secret of the Hattifatteners
How many times has Moominpappa gone off with the Hattifatteners? Are they really as wicked as they're cracked up to be? What does the birch bark scroll mean? Hop along and find out none of the answers...Show More
7) Bonus #7 Ali Baker
Our guest Ali Baker is a researcher in children's literature with a particular interest in children's voice and children's rights, so it's no surprise she chose to come on and talk to us about The Inv...Show More
8) The Invisible Child
This week we're reading one of Tove's most famous short stories: The Invisible Child. It's a pretty bright and funny story with very dark themes. We both like it, but it doesn't quite live up to the h...Show More
9) Bonus #7 Lou Sutcliffe
Our guest Lou has been a Moomin fan since childhood, and the character ey relate to is the Groke (iconic). This chat is lots of things, and one of the things is a couple of autistics marvelling over t...Show More
10) The Hemulen Who Loved Silence
Is this the underrated best story in this collection? We really think it might be. What can a Hemulen tell us about work under capitalism? Will any of us ever get to be pensioned off? This is a beauti...Show More