Joseph: A Beautiful Patience — The Podcast

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this eighteenth and final episode, Harry writes in his most personal voice. He has read this story dozens of times. He has studied it in Arabic, English, and French, walked through the verses, the translations, the taf...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this seventeenth episode, the lens turns directly toward the reader. Joseph lived centuries ago, yet his struggles feel startlingly familiar. Families still fracture under the weight of jealousy. Good people still face...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this sixteenth episode, the narrative steps aside. Joseph's family has been reunited, the dream fulfilled. Yet the surah itself extends past the great hall to ten more verses, ones that pull back from the family's dram...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this fifteenth episode, the caravan crosses the desert with a wrapped bundle held against Judah's chest. Joseph's shirt. Canaan's hills rise on the horizon. Jacob, blind from years of weeping, stands at the threshold o...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this fourteenth episode, nine brothers ride toward Canaan with the unspeakable to tell. Jacob counts the figures arriving at his threshold and finds two missing. He hears them out, then turns away with a single sentenc...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this thirteenth episode, the brothers enter Egypt's capital through different gates, following Jacob's instructions. Benjamin walks among them. The chapter begins with a quiet observation that no human caution shields...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this twelfth episode, seven years unfold exactly as the dream had predicted. The Nile floods generously. The granaries rise across Egypt. Joseph moves through abundance with the precision of a man executing a plan rath...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this eleventh episode, the women summoned by the king assemble in an antechamber as morning light shifts across the floor. Potiphar's wife sits slightly apart, the others having unconsciously left a circle of empty spa...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this tenth episode, the chapter opens far from the prison, inside a palace where something is wrong. Courtiers cluster in doorways, voices urgent and fearful. Guards stand at their posts with unusual rigidity. Even the...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this ninth episode, the prison swallows men whole. Stone walls thick enough to muffle screams. Cells barely wide enough to lie down in. Air that reeks of waste and rotting straw. Egypt's machinery of punishment, design...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this eighth episode, what began behind locked doors has become the story the whole capital is repeating. The gossip moves from morning bread to the markets to the palace gates within a week. The mistress, stung by laug...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this seventh episode, years have passed. The boy who stood shaking in Egypt's slave markets has become a young man of quiet authority within Potiphar's estate. He is competent, prayerful, trusted. But the household's m...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this sixth episode, the silence at the bottom of the well shatters. Joseph is still pressed against walls that weep with moisture, the dampness invading every fiber, time having lost its meaning. Then foreign voices ec...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this fifth episode, the morning begins like any other. The brothers move through the courtyard with calculated purpose, voices a little too jovial, laughter pitched a fraction too loud. Joseph steps outside in pure del...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this fourth episode, the seed Leah named in chapter two finally breaks soil. The brothers have gathered in a secluded valley. Voices low. Eyes that will not meet. The conversation is the kind every family with old woun...

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this third episode, a boy wakes from a dream he cannot shake. The sun. The moon. Eleven stars. All bowing down to him. Joseph carries the dream to his father in the gray hour before dawn, half-afraid of his own words....

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this second episode, the story itself begins. Evening in Canaan. A father at the edge of his courtyard. Jacob stands at his threshold as shadows lengthen across the familiar hills. A goat's bell sounds in the distance....

Welcome to Joseph: A Beautiful Patience, the companion podcast to Harry Peter De La Savane's literary retelling of an ancient family story of betrayal, patience, and forgiveness. In this opening episode, we step inside Harry's Author's Note and hear, in his own voice, why he wrote the book the way he did. Joseph's story belongs to many traditions. To Muslims, he is Yusuf, a beloved prophet. To Jew...