We have released two podcast episodes featuring interviews with people whose work intersects with the themes in The Light Pirate. The episodes are centered around the first two sections of the book: Power, and Water.
The episodes include a conversation with author Lily Brooks-Dalton, and others, including:
You can listen to the episodes on the YouTube players embedded on the pages below, or on the Before Your Time podcast feed.
The Light Pirate is divided into four sections. This first episode focuses on Power. We speak with author Lily Brooks-Dalton, along with Federico Cintrón Moscoso, Ph.D., Program Director of El Puente Puerto Rico; writer and environmental journalist Megan Mayhew Bergman; Dan Nott, author of the Vermont Book Award-winning graphic novel “Hidden Systems;” and Cyril Brunner, Innovation and Technology Leader at Vermont Electric Cooperative.
The Light Pirate is divided into four sections. This second episode focuses on Water. We speak with author Lily Brooks-Dalton, along with filmmaker Jay Craven; Dan Nott, author of the Vermont Book Award-winning graphic novel “Hidden Systems;” Paul W. Gates from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum; writer and environmental journalist Megan Mayhew Bergman; and Cyril Brunner, Innovation and Technology Leader at Vermont Electric Cooperative.
The Vermont Reads 2025 podcast was produced by Ryan Newswanger; with script, interview and production help from Noel Clark; and with script and narration help from Miciah Bay Gault.
We’re grateful to our supporters: the Trout Lily Foundation and the Jack & Dorothy Byrne Foundation. Vermont Public is our Media Sponsor. And thanks to Junction Arts and Media for the use of their recording studio.
Music credits are listed on each episode page.
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