No Place Like It

The tour of murder mystery locations had to be postponed so this week we're heading back to early 2000s New York to revisit the homes of Gossip Girl. It's all the same information as our last tour but this time there are a couple new things to learn about Blair Waldorf's penthouse!

What do the Little Mermaid's and the Sleeping Beauty's castles have in common? What's the deal with the Sea Witch's house? We discuss this and more in the latest episode of No Place Like It! Talia also shares what she thinks is the moral of some fairy tales, and there's a tangent on Gothic windows.

Stories about witches nearly always involve their unique houses and the magic within. Explore the Bishop house in the All Souls Trilogy and the Owens' place in the Practical Magic series. We'll learn about the importance of family history and of having magical spaces for witchcraft.

It’s summertime: children are running wild and staff are falling in and out of love. Summer camps may not be permanent homes but they sure have a lot going on during the short time they’re occupied.

Remember in The Nanny, Boy Meets World and Full House when all the set layouts had a set of stairs in the front and one in the back? We’re exploring the staircases and how the scenes for each represent the differences between the two halves of the house.

Today we’re in 19th century Canada, close to the White Way of Delight, and exploring the relationship between a lovable red-headed little girl and her adopted home in Avonlea.

Let’s go to LA and hand out with Jess, Nick, Schmidt and Winston in their oddly shaped apartment with 1 strange bathroom! It’s all about the group dynamic and how weird other people’s families are.

Although The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are about people leaving their homes, the home remains an important part of both stories, anchoring the characters amidst the dangers of their journeys.

In which we wander through the village of Highbury and take note of the community's interactions.

Secrets, power and disrespect! Ahead of the 4th season of Succession, we're looking at why Logan only talks to his kids one at a time, the importance of the balcony and dissecting the DISRESPECTFUL treatment of other people's spaces.

We're going to the 1920s, first stopping by the French Riviera and then on to Switzerland - and along the way we'll observe Dick and Nicole Diver in their strange and dysfunctional relationship.

Rise and shine, listeners! We're in early 2000s New York and we're looking at the homes of the original Gossip Girl TV series.

We're going through some of the houses featured in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, from the fashionably wealthy to the not-so-wealthy and the not-so fashionable. We'll wander along the streets of 1870s New York and see the elaborate accessories that created the Gilded Age.

Take your first step into No Place Like It, a podcast where we explore fictional homes and living spaces with English literature graduate Talia Ulrich. There's no place like home and no home like an imagined place.