Crooked Table Podcast: ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ (featuring Bri Azmoudeh of Geeky Girl Gab)

Last year, we had a blast running through all nine episodes in the Star Wars saga. But now that the Skywalker has risen (kinda?), we’re turning our attention to a bunch of British witches and wizards. That’s right: 2020 is the year of Harry Potter. Because this year really could use a bit of magic right about now.

Bri Azmoudeh of Geeky Girl Gab joins the show to help us travel back nearly two decades — yes, really — when J.K. Rowling’s best-selling book series first made the leap to the big screen. We’ll talk about how director Chris Columbus sets the tone for the series, the young cast of then-unknowns, and what has made Harry Potter such an enduring phenomenon.

So accio podcast and enjoy our deep dive into Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

SYNOPSIS

An adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling’s popular novels about Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique magical powers of his own. He is summoned from his life as an unwanted child to become a student at Hogwarts, an English boarding school for wizards. There, he meets several friends who become his closest allies and help him discover the truth about his parents’ mysterious deaths.