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Radio 831: A Romance Podcast

Radio 831: A Romance Podcast

Yearning, Wuthering Heights with Betty Corrello, and a Backlist Reading Assignment

May 14, 2026 · 31m

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Welcome back to Radio 831, where hosts Sanjana Basker and Tyler McCall make the case that yearning isn’t just trending—it’s a defining orientation toward life. Then they chat with author Betty Corrello to dig into what Wuthering Heights is actually doing in the canon: Is it a love story, is it camp, and what has romance inherited from Cathy and Heathcliff anyway? Plus: Sanjana gives Tyler her first homework assignment, Lisa Kleypas's Again the Magic , and Tyler comes back a changed woman. On yearning: Allison P. Davis’s “A Year on Our Knees” for The Cut , the movie Pillion , and the idea that lit-fic assumes everyone is cynical and jaded ℅ Mel Thomas (aka…