On the Road with Penguin Classics

William Blake's poetry with Philip Pullman

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:00:54 GMT

William Blake’s poetry and prose. We visit Sir Philip at home to discuss the poet who has ‘inspired and intoxicated’ him for the last sixty years. In Philip’s book-lined sitting room we discuss Blake’s most loved works: his Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Auguries of Innocence.

Pullman has written frequently about Blake and previously served as President of the William Blake Society.

Blake’s Selected Poems (Penguin Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33866/selected-poems-blake-by-william-blake-ed-professor-g-e-bentley-series-editor--christopher-ricks/9780140424461

https://apple.co/48HX8yM

Naxos Audiobooks edition of Blake’s poetry, read by Robert Glenister, Michael Maloney and Stephen Critchlow

https://naxosaudiobooks.com/blake-william-selections/

https://apple.co/3tRg676

Sir Philip Pullman

https://www.philip-pullman.com/

Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman

https://www.davidficklingbooks.com/shop/ItemDetails.php?pubID=190

https://apple.co/4aVkHpC

Audiobook edition of Daemon Voices

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309349/daemon-voices-by-pullman-philip/9780241372906

https://apple.co/47NE6Gl

The Blake Society

https://blakesociety.org/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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Giovanni’s Room with Caryl Phillips

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 08:00:51 GMT

James Baldwin in Paris. On the rain-soaked boulevards, the novelist Caryl Phillips discusses Baldwin's exquisite same-sex love story, drinking in the Cafe de Flore and exploring Saint Germain des Prés.

Phillips, who knew James Baldwin, wrote the introduction to the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Giovanni’s Room and an unfilmed screenplay of the novel for Merchant Ivory productions.

2024 marks 100 years since Baldwin was born

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57368/giovannis-room-by-james-baldwin-introduction-by-caryl-phillips/9780141186351

https://apple.co/3Hnscrz

Penguin Audio edition of Giovanni’s Room – available June 6th 2024

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56260/giovannis-room-by-baldwin-james/9781802067224

Calliope Author Readings – James Baldwin

http://calliopeauthorreadings.com/james-baldwin/

https://apple.co/4aTk0go

Caryl Phillips

https://www.carylphillips.com/

The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/130570/the-european-tribe-by-caryl-phillips/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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John Donne's poetry with Katherine Rundell

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 08:00:41 GMT

John Donne’s poetry and prose in London. The scholar and children’s author Katherine Rundell traces the life and paradoxical career of John Donne from the street where he was born, through the palaces and colleges where he worked to the cathedral where he preached and now lies buried.

In 2022 Rundell won the Baillie-Gifford Prize for her biography of Donne, Super-Infinite.

Donne's prose masterpiece Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions was published 400 years ago in January 1624.

Donne’s Selected Poems (Penguin Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33860/selected-poems-donne-by-john-donne-ed-professor-ilona-bell-series-editor--christopher-ricks/9780140424409

https://apple.co/48S5406

Donne’s Selected Prose (Penguin Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34100/selected-prose-by-donne-john/9780141396712

https://apple.co/47NE1m1

Naxos audiobook edition of Donne’s poetry, read by Geoffrey Whitehead and Will Keen

https://naxosaudiobooks.com/john-donne-selections/

https://apple.co/3vHDpk8

Katherine Rundell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Rundell

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/katherine-rundell/

Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell (Faber)

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571345922-super-infinite/

https://apple.co/47DGDCx

Audiobook edition of Super-Infinite

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571378258-super-infinite/

https://apple.co/3TSyR4I

Lincoln’s Inn

https://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/

St Dunstan in the West

https://www.stdunstaninthewest.org/

St Paul’s Cathedral

https://www.stpauls.co.uk/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle with Ruth Franklin

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 08:00:18 GMT

Shirley Jackson in North Bennington, Vermont. Award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin visits the small village of North Bennington, where Jackson lived for twenty years. We stand in the square where Jackson imagined 'The Lottery' and conjure the ghost of Merricat Blackwood as she collects her sinister groceries in Jackson’s last and greatest novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133431/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191454

Blackstone Publishing audiobook edition of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, read by Bernadette Dunne

https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle?sp=15364

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133428/the-lottery-and-other-stories-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191430

Penguin Audio edition of The Lottery and Other Stories, read by Francine Brody

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133428/the-lottery-and-other-stories-by-jackson-shirley/9780141994871

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/312885/life-among-the-savages-by-jackson-shirley/9780241387801

Penguin Audio edition of Life Among the Savages, read by Kate Handford

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/312885/life-among-the-savages-by-jackson-shirley/9780141994901

Ruth Franklin

https://ruthfranklin.substack.com/

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

https://wwnorton.com/books/Shirley-Jackson-A-Rather-Haunted-Life/

The Moonscones Micro-Bakery

http://www.moonscones.com/

Powers Market

https://powersmarket.com/

The John G McCullough Free Library

https://mcculloughlibrary.org/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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Angela Carter's Fairy Tales with Marina Warner

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:00:19 GMT

Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. In Dame Marina Warner's magical home in North London, the historian and mythographer discusses Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose and their English translation by Angela Carter, as well as Carter’s own Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Our wide-ranging conversation covers Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard and Little Red Riding Hood, as well as many other fairy tales.

The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Angela Carter (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57621/the-fairy-tales-of-charles-perrault-by-angela-carter-intro--jack-zipes/9780141189956

Dame Marina Warner

https://www.marinawarner.com/

Once Upon a Time by Marina Warner

https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/once-upon-a-time-9780198779858

https://apple.co/3TGDZJb

From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/358658/from-the-beast-to-the-blonde-by-marina-warner/9781409028635

https://apple.co/48xHQfy

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/359636/the-bloody-chamber-and-other-stories-by-angela-carter/9780099588115

https://apple.co/3H1huqG

Audible edition of The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, read by Richard Armitage and Emilia Fox

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Bloody-Chamber-Audiobook/B07B5C8MMK

https://apple.co/3tMYcSO

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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A Christmas Carol with Simon Callow – Christmas Special 2023

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:00:02 GMT

Charles Dickens in London. For this festive Christmas Special, the actor and author Simon Callow joins Henry to summon the ghost of Ebeneezer Scrooge and follow him around the City of London, starting at Cornhill, taking in Leadenhall Market and meeting all three Spirits of Christmas. A Christmas Carol, Dickens’s best loved novel, was published on 19 December 1843, 180 years ago this year.

Penguin Classics edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34585/a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-writings-by-charles-dickens-intro-michael-slater/9780140439052

https://apple.co/3Te9UQQ

Penguin Audio edition of A Christmas Carol, read by Theo Ogundipe

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34585/a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-writings-by-dickens-charles/9780241455326

https://apple.co/46OVnhC

Simon Callow

https://simoncallow.com/

Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow

https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/charles-dickens-and-the-great-theatre-of-the-world-simon-callow

Simon’s solo version of A Christmas Carol (BBC)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001kwg

The Counting House

https://www.the-counting-house.com/

The Royal Exchange

https://www.theroyalexchange.co.uk/

The George and Vulture

https://george-and-vulture.co.uk/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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A Clockwork Orange with Jeff Noon and Andrew Biswell

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 08:00:30 GMT

Anthony Burgess in East Sussex. On the 30th anniversary of Burgess’s death, the science fiction author Jeff Noon and the biographer Andrew Biswell travel East Sussex with Henry, visiting the rented flat where Burgess began writing A Clockwork Orange, O my brothers, and the quiet village where he finished it, taking in a pub, a prison, ultra violence, nadsat, brainwashing and Beethoven.

Penguin Classics ‘Restored Edition’ of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, edited by Andrew Biswell

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/182137/a-clockwork-orange-by-burgess-anthony/9780141197531

https://apple.co/41d2sHC

Penguin Audio edition of A Clockwork Orange, read by Tom Hollander

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/384903/a-clockwork-orange-by-anthony-burgess/9781407058542

https://apple.co/3Te9HNy

Jeff Noon

http://jeffnoon.weebly.com/

Vurt by Jeff Noon (30th anniversary edition)

https://angryrobotbooks.com/books/vurt/

Andrew Biswell

https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-andrew-biswell

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

https://www.anthonyburgess.org/

The Real Life of Anthony Burgess by Andrew Biswell

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/andrew-biswell/the-real-life-of-anthony-burgess/9780330481717

Christopher Hawtree

http://www.christopherhawtree.com/

The Neptune Inn

https://theneptunelivemusicbar.co.uk/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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Farewell, My Lovely with Dick Lochte

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 08:00:58 GMT

Raymond Chandler in Santa Monica. As well as The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, we discuss Farewell, My Lovely, Chandler’s favourite of his own novels, as we walk the noir streets of ‘Bay City’ – or Santa Monica in Southern California – retracing Philip Marlowe's footsteps from City Hall to Santa Monica Pier, and chatting about Dick's hard-boiled and hilarious Chandler tribute, Sleeping Dog.

Penguin Classics omnibus edition of The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely and The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57024/the-big-sleep-and-other-novels-by-raymond-chandler/9780141182612

https://apple.co/3uH9E2J

Penguin Audio edition of Farewell, My Lovely, read by Scott Brick

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/11358/farewell-my-lovely-by-chandler-raymond/9780241989418

https://apple.co/3NatWrM

Dick Lochte

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/l/dick-lochte/

Penguin Crime Classics edition of Sleeping Dog by Dick Lochte

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/458455/sleeping-dog-by-lochte-dick/9780241656921

https://apple.co/3sV2583

Penguin Audio edition of Sleeping Dog, read by Robert G. Slade and Daniela Vanasco

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/458455/sleeping-dog-by-lochte-dick/9780241671726

https://apple.co/47B39g9

Santa Monica City Hall

https://www.santamonica.gov/places/city-facilities/santa-monica-city-hall

The Georgian

https://www.thegeorgian.com/

Santa Monica Pier

https://www.santamonicapier.org/

Raymond Chandler Mystery Map of Los Angeles

https://apps.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/litmaps/item/4934?exhibit=130&page=1028

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

Producer – Megan Tan: https://www.megantan.com/

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Frankenstein with Anil Seth and Fiona Sampson

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:00:39 GMT

Mary Shelley in Bath. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin finished writing Frankenstein while lodging in Bath and attending lectures on electricity and galvanism. We visit the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and the recently opened Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein with the neuroscientist Anil Seth (author of Being You) and the poet and biographer Fiona Sampson (In Search of Mary Shelley), discussing Romantic literature, early nineteenth-century science and the mystery of consciousness.

Penguin Classics edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55587/frankenstein-by-mary-shelley-ed-maurice-hindle/9780141439471

https://apple.co/47HB0DU

Penguin audiobook edition of Frankenstein, read by Peter Noble and Colin Salmon

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55587/frankenstein-by-shelley-mary/9780241422625

https://apple.co/3us6tvv

Anil Seth

https://www.anilseth.com/

Being You by Anil Seth (Faber)

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571337729-being-you/

https://apple.co/40QlhQQ

Audiobook: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571360550-being-you/

https://apple.co/46t21tQ

Fiona Sampson

https://twitter.com/FionaRSampson

In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson (Profile)

https://profilebooks.com/work/in-search-of-mary-shelley-the-girl-who-wrote-frankenstein/

https://apple.co/49T6f0A

Audiobook: https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781528851244

https://apple.co/46t274G

Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

https://www.brlsi.org/

Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein

https://www.houseoffrankenstein.com/

St Mary’s Churchyard

https://www.stmaryschurchyard.com/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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Pride and Prejudice with Monica Ali

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 08:00:47 GMT

Jane Austen in Chawton. The novelist Monica Ali joins Henry to visit Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen wrote all of her novels – as well as nearby Chawton House, once owned by Austen’s brother Edward and now home to the Centre for the Study of Early Women’s Writing.

Penguin Classics edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55905/pride-and-prejudice-by-austen-jane/9780141439518

https://apple.co/3MNDOaq

Penguin Audio edition of Pride and Prejudice, read by Indira Varma

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55905/pride-and-prejudice-by-austen-jane/9780241455265

https://apple.co/3sFgFQY

Monica Ali

https://www.monicaali.com/

Love Marriage by Monica Ali

https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/monica-ali/love-marriage/9780349015507/

https://apple.co/3usPBVi

Penguin audiobook edition of Love Marriage, read by Ayesha Dharker

https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/monica-ali/love-marriage/9781405550291/

https://apple.co/47dHaMc

Jane Austen’s House

https://janeaustens.house/

Chawton House

https://chawtonhouse.org/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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The Haunting of Hill House with Ruth Franklin – Halloween Special 2023

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 08:00:51 GMT

Shirley Jackson in Bennington, Vermont. For this spooky Halloween special, award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin joins Henry to haunt the eery corridors of the derelict Everett Mansion, the house that may well have inspired the greatest ghost story ever written, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133430/the-haunting-of-hill-house-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191447

https://apple.co/45OjA79

Blackstone Publishing audiobook edition of The Haunting of Hill House, read by Bernadette Dunne

https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/the-haunting-of-hill-house?sp=17673

https://apple.co/46I1m8K

Ruth Franklin

http://ruthfranklin.substack.com/

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

https://wwnorton.com/books/Shirley-Jackson-A-Rather-Haunted-Life/

https://apple.co/475esgb

Blackstone Publishing audiobook edition of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, read by Bernadette Dunne

https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/shirley-jackson?sp=67707

https://apple.co/40fy133

Edward H. Everett

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hamlin_Everett

The Everett Mansion

https://svclookingglass.com/4321/entertainment/the-ghosts-of-everett-mansion/

Ghost Hunters Series 10 Episode 10

https://www.syfy.com/ghost-hunters/photos/darker-learning-season-10-episode-10

Southern Vermont Healthcare Realty

https://svhealthcare.org/news/svhc-introduces-real-estate-developer-for-former-college-campus

Alfred Weissman Real Estate

https://www.awre.net/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWaZDC4nyjo

Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

Lucy Little: https://www.lucyalittle.com/

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Season 4 Trailer

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 07:00:14 GMT

On the Road with Penguin Classics is the literary podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author Henry Eliot travels to a different location to discuss a great work of literature with a different guest.

In series four, Henry's guests include Monica Ali, Katherine Rundell, Simon Callow, Marina Warner, Caryl Phillips, Anil Seth and Philip Pullman. They discuss the love stories of Jane Austen and James Baldwin, the fantasies of Charles Dickens and Angela Carter, the thrillers of Raymond Chandler and Anthony Burgess, the horrors of Mary Shelley and Shirley Jackson and the poetry of John Donne and William Blake.

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Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists – Christmas Special 2022

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 08:00:59 GMT

In this bonus episode, Henry introduces Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists, the perfect stocking-filler for book-lovers.

Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?

In this eclectic gallimaufry, Henry showcases some of his favourite literary lists: we witness the tragic ends of the Ancient Greek tragedians, learn the name of George Orwell's pet cockerel and rummage through Joan Didion's travelling bag; we consider the history of literary fart jokes, orbit the Shakespearean moons of Uranus and meet several pigs with wings. From the sublime to the ridiculous – and everything in between – Eliot's lists, recommendations and nuggets of trivia will delight, inspire and surprise anyone who loves reading.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/448329/eliots-book-of-bookish-lists-by-eliot-henry/9780241562727

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The Pilgrim’s Progress with Rachel Joyce

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 08:00:15 GMT

John Bunyan in Bedfordshire. The novelist Rachel Joyce joins Henry as they follow in the footsteps of Bunyan’s pilgrim Christian, as he walks from Bedford, or the City of Destruction, to London, the Celestial City. Along the way they visit the Slough of Despond (Elstow), the Palace Beautiful (Houghton House) and Vanity Fair (Ampthill). They start at the Bunyan Meeting House, where they meet John Pestell, and finish at Bunyan’s resting place, Bunhill Fields.

2022 marks the 350th anniversary of the Bunyan Meeting House on its current site.

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (Penguin Classics)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60345/the-pilgrims-progress-by-john-bunyan-ed-dr-roger-pooley/9780141439716

https://apple.co/3rtwupL

The Pilgrim’s Progress, read by David Shaw-Parker (Naxos Audiobook)

https://naxosaudiobooks.com/pilgrim-s-progress-the-unabridged/

https://apple.co/3dJ7Lu6

Rachel Joyce

https://www.rachel-joyce.co.uk/

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/413693/the-unlikely-pilgrimage-of-harold-fry-by-joyce-rachel/9780552778091

https://apple.co/3BPScJe

The Love Song of Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/420794/the-love-song-of-miss-queenie-hennessy-by-joyce-rachel/9781784160302

https://apple.co/3BKnW2p

Maureen and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/448497/maureen-fry-and-the-angel-of-the-north-by-joyce-rachel/9780857529008

https://apple.co/3CcaGF2

Travel with John Bunyan by John Pestell

https://www.dayone.co.uk/products/travel-with-john-bunyan

John Bunyan Meeting House and Museum

https://www.bunyanmeeting.co.uk/

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Season of Migration to the North with Leila Aboulela

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:00:47 GMT

Tayeb Salih in London. The novelist Leila Aboulela meets Henry in London to discuss Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, which was voted the most important Arab novel of the 20th century by the Arab Literary Academy in Damascus. The novel is set in both a small village in northern Sudan and various locations in London, the city that Tayeb Salih made his home. Leila and Henry visit Victoria Station, Speaker’s Corner, the London Central Mosque, the Old Bailey and Cleopatra’s Needle.

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (Penguin Modern Classics)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57444/season-of-migration-to-the-north-by-tayeb-salih-trans-denys-johnson-davies/9780141187204

Leila Aboulela

http://www.leila-aboulela.com/

The Translator by Leila Aboulela

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-translator/

https://apple.co/3UGl6Uy

The Minaret by Leila Aboulela

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minaret-9780747579427/

https://apple.co/3xSuwTq

London Central Mosque

https://www.iccuk.org/

The Old Bailey

https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/law-historic-governance/central-criminal-court

The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih (NYRB Classics)

https://www.nyrb.com/collections/tayeb-salih/products/the-wedding-of-zein

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The Book of Disquiet with Richard Zenith

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:00:00 GMT

Fernando Pessoa in Lisbon. The translator and biographer Richard Zenith meets Henry in Lisbon to sift the fragments of Fernando Pessoa’s extraordinary ‘non-book’, The Book of Disquiet. They visit the cafes where Pessoa liked to drink, they meet Clara Riso, director of the Casa Fernando Pessoa, and they walk from the hills of Lisbon to the edge of the River Tagus.

2022 is the 40th anniversary of the first, posthumous publication of The Book of Disquiet.

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57066/the-book-of-disquiet-by-fernando-pessoatransrichard-zenith/9780241200131

https://apple.co/3SjNQRq

The Book of Disquiet, trans. Richard Zenith, read by Adam Sims (Naxos Audiobook)

https://naxosaudiobooks.com/book-of-disquiet-the-unabridged/

https://apple.co/3dIY9iY

Pessoa’s poems, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/62448/a-little-larger-than-the-entire-universe-by-fernando-pessoa-trans-richard-zenith/9780143039556

Fernando & Co.: Selected Poems, trans. Richard Zenith

https://groveatlantic.com/book/fernando-pessoa-co/

Pessoa: An Experimental Life by Richard Zenith

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/445182/pessoa-by-zenith-richard/9780141998299

https://apple.co/3raTI3F

Casa Fernando Pessoa

https://www.casafernandopessoa.pt/en/cfp

Café a Brasileira

https://www.abrasileira.pt/?lang=en

Café Martinho da Arcada

https://martinhodaarcada.pt/

Livraria Bertrand, the oldest bookshop in the world

https://www.bertrand.pt/livrarias/livraria-bertrand-chiado/900

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Maurice with Diarmuid Hester

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 07:00:49 GMT

E. M. Forster in Cambridge. The cultural historian Diarmuid Hester joins Henry to explore the streets and colleges of Cambridge before escaping to the greenwood to discuss Maurice by E. M. Forster, his novel of same-sex love that remained unpublished throughout his lifetime. Diarmuid and Henry visit King’s College, where Forster lived both as an undergraduate and an honorary fellow and they visit Madingley Hall and Madingley Dell.

2021 was the 50th anniversary of the first, posthumous publication of Maurice in 1971.

Maurice by E. M. Forster (Penguin Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60370/maurice-by-ed--steven-d-levitt-em-forster/9780141441139

Maurice by E. M. Forster, read by Ben Whishaw (Audible audiobook)

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Maurice-Audiobook/B08CVRKWYH

https://apple.co/3LNOqEF

Diarmuid Hester

https://www.diarmuidhester.com/

Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/445054/nothing-ever-just-disappears-by-hester-diarmuid/9780241528457

https://apple.co/3RgFU20

King’s College Archive

https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/archive-centre/e-m-forster-and-king-s

Madingley Hall

https://www.madingleyhall.co.uk/

Adrian Barlow’s article about Madingley Dell

http://adrianbarlowsblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-threat-to-madingley-dell.html

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The Hearing Trumpet with Joanna Moorhead

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 07:00:13 GMT

Leonora Carrington in the Ardèche. The journalist and biographer Joanna Moorhead joins Henry in the south of France to discuss her cousin, the surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington. They trace Carrington’s life story to Saint-Martin-d’Ardèche, where she lived with the artist Max Ernst, and discuss her spectacular feminist, eco-apocalypse novel The Hearing Trumpet.

Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57481/the-hearing-trumpet-by-leonora-carrington-intro--ali-smith/9780141187990

Naxos audiobook of The Hearing Trumpet, read by Siân Phillips

https://naxosaudiobooks.com/hearing-trumpet-the-unabridged/

https://apple.co/3dOYfpp

Joanna Moorhead

http://www.joannamoorhead.org/

The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead

https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/joanna-moorhead/the-surreal-life-of-leonora-carrington/9780349008776/

https://apple.co/3SCdDUU

Leonora Carrington at the Tate

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/leonora-carrington-7615

Leonora Carrington at the Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen

https://uk.arken.dk/udstilling/leonora-carrington/

Leonora Carrington at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

https://mam.inba.gob.mx/leonora-carrington-cuentos-magicos

Saint-Martin-d’Ardèche

https://www.france-voyage.com/cities-towns/saint-martin-d-ardeche-29317.htm

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Confessions of an English Opium Eater with Will Self

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 07:00:28 GMT

Thomas de Quincey & William S. Burroughs in Soho. The novelist Will Self joins Henry in London to explore the opium dreams and heroin nightmares of Thomas de Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater and William S. Burrough’s Junky. They walk from Oxford Street to Covent Garden, and along the way they also discuss The Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley and Will’s own 2019 drugs memoir, Will.

2022 is the 200th anniversary of the book publication of Confessions of an English Opium Eater.

Penguin Classics edition of Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34581/confessions-of-an-english-opium-eater-by-thomas-de-quincey-ed--barry-milligan/9780140439014

https://apple.co/3SDKmZI

Naxos audiobook of Confessions of an English Opium Eater, read by Gunnar Cauthery

https://naxosaudiobooks.com/confessions-of-an-english-opium-eater-unabridged/

https://apple.co/3SgGjTB

Penguin Modern Classics edition of Junky by William S. Burroughs

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57608/junky-by-william-s-burroughs-intro-oliver-harris/9780141189826

https://apple.co/3UIuIOz

W. F. Howes audiobook of Junky read by Mark Nelson

https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781471212291

https://apple.co/3ReJ3zt

Will Self

https://will-self.com/

Will by Will Self

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/176727/will-by-self-will/9780141046402

https://apple.co/3r89gVZ

W. F. Howes audiobook of Will, read by Will Self

https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781528888219

https://apple.co/3r8QZrh

The Colony Room Club – in pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/13/from-francis-bacon-to-tracey-emin-soho-historic-colony-room-club-in-pictures

William S. Burroughs and the Moka Bar

https://www.openculture.com/2014/12/how-william-s-burroughs-shut-down-londons-first-espresso-bar-1972.html

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Season 3 Trailer

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 07:00:14 GMT

On the Road with Penguin Classics is the literary podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of remarkable readers.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with Chris Riddell

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 08:00:30 GMT

Lewis Carroll in Oxford. The illustrator and political cartoonist Chris Riddell wanders the streams and streets of Oxford with Henry, visiting the locations that inspired Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. They meet Sophie Hiscock at the Story Museum and visit Christ Church College.

Penguin Classics editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60348/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland-and-through-the-looking-glass/9780141439761.html

https://apple.co/34adQe5

Penguin audiobook of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, read by Katie Leung

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1060348/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland-and-through-the-looking-glass/9780241442425.html

https://apple.co/3r1h1gQ

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Chris Riddell

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lewis-carroll/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/9781529002461

Through the Looking-Glass, illustrated by Chris Riddell

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lewis-carroll/through-the-lookingglass-and-what-alice-found-there/9781529007503

The Hunting of the Snark, illustrated by Chris Riddell

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/chris-riddell/the-hunting-of-the-snark/9781529006957

Chris Riddell

https://chrisriddellblog.tumblr.com/

https://twitter.com/chrisriddell50

The Story Museum

https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/

Alice’s Shop

https://aliceinwonderlandshop.com/

Christ Church College

https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Yayoi Kusama

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/181654/lewis-carroll-s-alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland--with-artwork-b/9780141197302.html

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie with Alan Taylor

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 08:00:00 GMT

Muriel Spark in Edinburgh. The journalist Alan Taylor joins the Brodie set on a walk around Edinburgh with Henry. They discuss The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, visiting the site of James Gillespie’s High School (Spark’s alma mater and the model for Marcia Blaine school in the novel), as well as her childhood home on Bruntsfield Place and tracing the route taken by Miss Brodie and her girls across the Meadows and through the Grassmarket, Lawnmarket and the High Street.

Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56927/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie/9780141181424.html

Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark by Alan Taylor

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/appointment-in-arezzo-2/

Alan Taylor

https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/contributors/alan-taylor/

Muriel Spark Centenary Editions (Polygon)

https://birlinn.co.uk/muriel-spark/

James Gillespie’s High School

https://www.jamesgillespies.co.uk/

Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Spark

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781847771025

Canongate audiobook of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, read by Miriam Margolyes

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Prime-of-Miss-Jean-Brodie-Audiobook/B006K4FPGE

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Keats's poetry with Andrew Motion

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:00:55 GMT

John Keats in Hampstead. The poet and biographer Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, strolls around the village of Hampstead with Henry. They discuss the short life and luscious poetry of John Keats, walking on the Heath, visiting Leigh Hunt’s house in the Vale of Health and finishing at Wentworth Place (now Keats House), where they meet its principal curator, Rob Shakespeare.

Penguin Classics editions of Keats:

Selected Poems

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33867/selected-poems--keats/9780140424478.html

https://apple.co/3IE3ZMC

Complete Poems

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33699/the-complete-poems/9780140422108.html

https://apple.co/3H4pUMy

Selected Letters

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/177598/selected-letters/9780141192796.html

https://apple.co/3FUzvUx

So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (introduced by Jane Campion)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60470/so-bright-and-delicate--love-letters-and-poems-of-john-keats-to-/9780141442471.html

https://apple.co/33kffP9

Andrew Motion

https://poets.org/poet/andrew-motion

Keats by Andrew Motion

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571346660-keats/

The Invention of Dr Cake by Andrew Motion

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571216321-the-invention-of-dr-cake/

Keats House

https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/attractions-museums-entertainment/keats-house

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The Blazing World with Michael Bravo

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 08:00:32 GMT

Margaret Cavendish beyond the North Pole. The polar researcher Dr Michael Bravo Joins Henry in Cambridge to discuss The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish, the maverick Duchess of Newcastle. Blending fantasy, philosophy and seventeenth-century science, they visit the Polar Museum, the Whipple Museum and Cambridge University Library. They meet Dr Joshua Nall, an expert on the history of science, and Dr Emily Dourish, deputy keeper of rare books.

Penguin Classics editions of The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34205/the-blazing-world-and-other-writings/9780140433722.html

https://apple.co/3IAMNY5

Penguin audiobook of The Blazing World, read by Abigail Thaw

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34205/the-blazing-world-and-other-writings/9780141993393.html

https://apple.co/3u6gpIK

Michael Bravo

https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/bravo/

North Pole by Michael Bravo

http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781789140088

The Polar Museum

https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/

The Whipple Museum

https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/

The Cambridge University Library Rare Books Department

https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/rare-books

Joshua Nall

https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/nall

Emily Dourish

https://twitter.com/emilydourish?lang=en

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Ulysses with Anne Fogarty

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 08:00:12 GMT

James Joyce in Dublin. Professor Anne Fogarty joins Henry in Dublin to recreate a day in the life of Leopold Bloom. They discuss Ulysses by James Joyce and visit the Martello Tower where the novel opens, Eccles Street, Davy Byrnes and the National Library. They meet Darina Gallagher, director of the James Joyce Centre, who coordinates the annual Bloomsday celebrations.

2 February 2022 is the 100th anniversary of the first book publication of Ulysses.

Penguin Modern Classics editions of Ulysses by George Orwell

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57043/ulysses/9780141182803.html

https://apple.co/3KEWdDP

Penguin audiobook of Ulysses, read by Patrick Gibson

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1057043/ulysses/9780241422601.html

https://apple.co/3H81bqI

Anne Fogarty

https://people.ucd.ie/anne.fogarty

The James Joyce Centre

https://jamesjoyce.ie/

The James Joyce Tower & Museum

https://joycetower.ie/

Davy Byrnes

https://davybyrnes.com/

Sweny’s Pharmacy

https://www.sweny.ie/

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Nineteen Eighty-Four with Robert Icke

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:00:56 GMT

George Orwell in Airstrip One. The writer and director Robert Icke joins Henry to explore the real-world locations in London that inspired George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Together they tour the Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Love and Room 101. Robert co-adapted and co-directed the award-winning 2013 stage adaptation 1984, which has played on the West End and Broadway and toured the UK, the USA and Australia.

Penguin Modern Classics editions of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57013/nineteen-eighty-four/9780141187761.html

https://apple.co/32u5uNJ

Penguin audiobook of Nineteen Eighty-Four, read by Peter Capaldi

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1057013/nineteen-eighty-four/9780141989969.html

https://apple.co/3fSibVQ

Robert Icke

https://roberticke.com/

Robert Icke’s production of 1984

https://headlong.co.uk/productions/1984/

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/1984-9781350262713/

UCL Senate House

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/libraries-and-study-spaces/ucl-senate-house-hub

BBC Broadcasting House

https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/buildings/broadcasting-house/

Untitled (Room 101) by Rachel Whiteread

http://www.modusoperandi-art.com/projects/bbc_untitled_room_101/

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Season 2 Trailer

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:00:14 GMT

On the Road with Penguin Classics is a literary podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of remarkable readers.

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The Mill on the Floss with Louis de Bernières

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 08:00:00 GMT

George Eliot in Nuneaton. The novelist Louis de Bernières explores the landscape around Nuneaton in Warwickshire, the birthplace of Mary Ann Evans, or George Eliot. They discuss The Mill on the Floss, visiting the Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery and the Griff House Beefeater, which was Eliot's childhood home and the inspiration for Dorlcote Mill in the novel. They also meet Adam Weaver, land agent of the Arbury Estate, the same position held by Eliot’s father.

Penguin Classics edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60341/the-mill-on-the-floss/9780141439624.html

Audiobook: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/the-mill-on-the-floss/id1528313409?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=audio-books_the_mill_on_the_floss&ls=1

Ebook: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-mill-on-the-floss/id374227455?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=books_the_mill_on_the_floss&ls=1

Louis de Bernières

https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1017789/louis-de-bernieres.html

Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery

https://www.nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk/info/20038/museum_and_art_gallery/160/museum_and_art_gallery

Griff House Beefeater

https://www.beefeater.co.uk/en-gb/locations/warwickshire/griff-house

The Arbury Estate

https://arburyestate.co.uk/

George Eliot walking tour of Nuneaton

http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/george-eliot/george-eliot-walking-tour.shtml

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The Lonely Londoners with Susheila Nasta

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:00:00 GMT

Sam Selvon in Bayswater. The author and editor Susheila Nasta, Selvon’s literary executor, coasts a lime around the Water with Henry. They discuss The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, visiting Bayswater, Hyde Park and Piccadilly Circus, and discussing the experience of Caribbean migrants in 1950s London. They meet Howard Jeffery, Chairman of the Pepperpot Centre, a community centre for older Caribbean residents in west London.

Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57514/the-lonely-londoners/9780141188416.html

Ebook: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-lonely-londoners/id913000990?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=books_the_lonely_londoners&ls=1

Susheila Nasta

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/nastas.html

https://twitter.com/susheila_nasta

Wasafiri

https://www.wasafiri.org/

The Pepperpot Centre

https://www.pepperpotcentre.org.uk/

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Tristram Shandy with Frank Cottrell Boyce

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:00:08 GMT

Laurence Sterne in Coxwold. The screenwriter and children’s author Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the screenplay for A Cock and Bull Story (the 2005 film adaptation of Tristram Shandy), digresses around the little village of Coxwold in North Yorkshire with Henry. They discuss Laurence Sterne’s novel and veer off on various tangents as they meander from St Michael’s Church, where Sterne was perpetual curate, to Shandy Hall, where he wrote most of Tristram Shandy. They meet the curator, Patrick Wildgust, who guides them through the eccentric building.

Penguin Classics edition of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60349/the-life-and-opinions-of-tristram-shandy--gentleman/9780141439778.html

Audiobook: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/tristram-shandy-abridged/id1440419496?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=audio-books_tristram_shandy_%28abridged%29&ls=1

Ebook: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-life-and-opinions-of-tristram-shandy-gentleman/id374433539?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=books_the_life_and_opinions_of_tristram&ls=1

Frank Cottrell Boyce

https://twitter.com/frankcottrell_b

A Cock and Bull Story, dir. Michael Winterbottom

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423409/

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/frank-cottrellboyce/cosmic/9781529008777

Shandy Hall & The Laurence Sterne Trust

https://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/

St Michael’s Church

https://www.coxwoldvillage.org/index.php/coxwold-church-north-yorkshire-st-michael-and-all-angels

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Mrs Dalloway with Alexandra Harris

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:00:51 GMT

Virginia Woolf in Westminster. The biographer Alexandra Harris, author of Romantic Moderns (2010), haunts the streets of Westminster with Henry. They discuss Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, tracing the course of the novel as it unfolds over a single day, visiting Bond Street, Regent’s Park and Tavistock Square. They also meet Edgar Jones, Professor in the History of Medicine and Psychiatry at King’s College London, a leading authority on shell shock.

Penguin Modern Classics edition of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57014/mrs-dalloway/9780241436271.html

Audiobook: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/mrs-dalloway/id1479197958?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=audio-books_mrs_dalloway&ls=1

Ebook: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/mrs-dalloway/id374213135?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=books_mrs_dalloway&ls=1

Alexandra Harris

https://www.alexandraharris.co.uk/

https://twitter.com/alexhharris

Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris

https://thamesandhudson.com/romantic-moderns-english-writers-artists-and-the-imagination-9780500251713

Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris

https://thamesandhudson.com/woolf-9780500515921

Edgar Jones

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/edgar-jones

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The Canterbury Tales with Patience Agbabi

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 08:00:00 GMT

Geoffrey Chaucer in Kent. The poet and performer Patience Agbabi, author of Telling Tales (2014), makes a pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury with Henry. They discuss The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer as they travel by train, stopping off at Dartford and Rochester, covering Chaucer’s life and times, poetry and pilgrims, including the Knight, the Miller, the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner. In Canterbury they meet David Herd, co-founder of Refugee Tales, an annual public walk that raises awareness around indefinite immigration detention.

Penguin Classics editions of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33721/the-canterbury-tales/9780140422344.html

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33858/the-canterbury-tales/9780140424386.html

Audiobook: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/the-canterbury-tales/id1480679536?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=audio-books_the_canterbury_tales&ls=1

Ebook: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-canterbury-tales/id374504153?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=books_the_canterbury_tales&ls=1

Patience Agbabi

https://twitter.com/patienceagbabi

Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi

https://canongate.co.uk/books/2125-telling-tales/

Refugee Tales

https://www.refugeetales.org/

https://commapress.co.uk/books/refugee-tales

David Herd

https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/91/www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/91/herd-david

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The Woman in White with Olivia Vinall

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT

Wilkie Collins in Cumbria. The actress Olivia Vinall, star of the 2018 BBC adaptation of The Woman in White, explores the Cumbrian coastline with Henry. They discuss Wilkie Collins’s novel and visit the Ship Hotel in Allonby, where Collins stayed with Charles Dickens. They also visit Ewanrigg Hall, the inspiration for Limmeridge House, and meet Doris Riley, author of The Rise and Fall of Ewanrigg Hall, who tells them a haunting ghost story.

Penguin Classics edition of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60340/the-woman-in-white/9780141439617.html

Audiobook: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/the-woman-in-white/id1480847714?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=audio-books_the_woman_in_white&ls=1

Ebook: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-woman-in-white/id567843590?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=books_the_woman_in_white&ls=1

Olivia Vinall

https://twitter.com/ovinall

The Woman in White (2018 BBC adaptation)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b157dw

The Ship Hotel, Allonby

http://theshipallonby.co.uk/

Ewanrigg Hall

https://houseandheritage.org/2017/04/07/ewanrigg-hall/

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-lazy-tour-of-two-idle-apprentices-9781847497741/

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Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:00:39 GMT

On the Road with Penguin Classics is a new literary podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author and editor Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of remarkable readers.

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