On the Road with Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House UK)
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| 25 Feb 2021 | The Lonely Londoners with Susheila Nasta | 01:09:22 | |
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
Susheila Nasta https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/nastas.html https://twitter.com/susheila_nasta
Wasafiri
The Pepperpot Centre https://www.pepperpotcentre.org.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 13 Jan 2022 | Season 2 Trailer | 00:01:36 | |
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 27 Jan 2022 | Nineteen Eighty-Four with Robert Icke | 00:58:22 | |
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
Penguin audiobook of Nineteen Eighty-Four, read by Peter Capaldi https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1057013/nineteen-eighty-four/9780141989969.html Robert Icke 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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 02 Feb 2022 | Ulysses with Anne Fogarty | 01:14:53 | |
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
Penguin audiobook of Ulysses, read by Patrick Gibson https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1057043/ulysses/9780241422601.html
Anne Fogarty https://people.ucd.ie/anne.fogarty
The James Joyce Centre
The James Joyce Tower & Museum
Davy Byrnes
Sweny’s Pharmacy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 09 Feb 2022 | The Blazing World with Michael Bravo | 01:01:50 | |
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
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
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 17 Feb 2022 | Keats's poetry with Andrew Motion | 01:05:14 | |
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
Complete Poems https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33699/the-complete-poems/9780140422108.html
Selected Letters https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/177598/selected-letters/9780141192796.html So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (introduced by Jane Campion)
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 24 Feb 2022 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie with Alan Taylor | 01:08:00 | |
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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| 03 Mar 2022 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with Chris Riddell | 01:08:33 | |
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
Penguin audiobook of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, read by Katie Leung
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
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
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Yayoi Kusama Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 15 Sep 2022 | Season 3 Trailer | 00:01:49 | |
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 29 Sep 2022 | Confessions of an English Opium Eater with Will Self | 01:15:41 | |
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
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
W. F. Howes audiobook of Junky read by Mark Nelson https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781471212291 https://apple.co/3ReJ3zt
Will Self
Will by Will Self https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/176727/will-by-self-will/9780141046402
W. F. Howes audiobook of Will, read by Will Self https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781528888219
The Colony Room Club – in pictures
William S. Burroughs and the Moka Bar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 06 Oct 2022 | The Hearing Trumpet with Joanna Moorhead | 01:14:13 | |
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
Naxos audiobook of The Hearing Trumpet, read by Siân Phillips https://naxosaudiobooks.com/hearing-trumpet-the-unabridged/
Joanna Moorhead http://www.joannamoorhead.org/
The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 13 Oct 2022 | Maurice with Diarmuid Hester | 01:10:27 | |
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
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
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 20 Oct 2022 | The Book of Disquiet with Richard Zenith | 01:08:44 | |
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)
The Book of Disquiet, trans. Richard Zenith, read by Adam Sims (Naxos Audiobook) https://naxosaudiobooks.com/book-of-disquiet-the-unabridged/
Pessoa’s poems, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin Classics edition)
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
Casa Fernando Pessoa https://www.casafernandopessoa.pt/en/cfp
Café a Brasileira https://www.abrasileira.pt/?lang=en
Café Martinho da Arcada
Livraria Bertrand, the oldest bookshop in the world https://www.bertrand.pt/livrarias/livraria-bertrand-chiado/900 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 27 Oct 2022 | Season of Migration to the North with Leila Aboulela | 01:12:26 | |
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)
Leila Aboulela http://www.leila-aboulela.com/
The Translator by Leila Aboulela https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-translator/
The Minaret by Leila Aboulela https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minaret-9780747579427/
London Central Mosque
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 03 Nov 2022 | The Pilgrim’s Progress with Rachel Joyce | 01:07:58 | |
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)
The Pilgrim’s Progress, read by David Shaw-Parker (Naxos Audiobook) https://naxosaudiobooks.com/pilgrim-s-progress-the-unabridged/
Rachel Joyce https://www.rachel-joyce.co.uk/
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Love Song of Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
Maureen and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce
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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 01 Dec 2022 | Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists – Christmas Special 2022 | 00:21:47 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 26 Oct 2023 | Season 4 Trailer | 00:01:45 | |
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 31 Oct 2023 | The Haunting of Hill House with Ruth Franklin – Halloween Special 2023 | 00:45:54 | |
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
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
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/
Blackstone Publishing audiobook edition of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, read by Bernadette Dunne https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/shirley-jackson?sp=67707
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.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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 23 Nov 2023 | Pride and Prejudice with Monica Ali | 01:15:04 | |
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
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
Monica Ali
Love Marriage by Monica Ali https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/monica-ali/love-marriage/9780349015507/
Penguin audiobook edition of Love Marriage, read by Ayesha Dharker https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/monica-ali/love-marriage/9781405550291/
Jane Austen’s House
Chawton House
Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 30 Nov 2023 | Frankenstein with Anil Seth and Fiona Sampson | 01:14:09 | |
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
Penguin audiobook edition of Frankenstein, read by Peter Noble and Colin Salmon https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55587/frankenstein-by-shelley-mary/9780241422625
Anil Seth
Being You by Anil Seth (Faber) https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571337729-being-you/ Audiobook: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571360550-being-you/
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/ Audiobook: https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781528851244
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 07 Dec 2023 | Farewell, My Lovely with Dick Lochte | 01:04:14 | |
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
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
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
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
Santa Monica City Hall https://www.santamonica.gov/places/city-facilities/santa-monica-city-hall
The Georgian
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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 14 Dec 2023 | A Clockwork Orange with Jeff Noon and Andrew Biswell | 01:17:20 | |
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
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
Jeff Noon
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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 21 Dec 2023 | A Christmas Carol with Simon Callow – Christmas Special 2023 | 01:12:43 | |
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
Penguin Audio edition of A Christmas Carol, read by Theo Ogundipe
Simon Callow
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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 04 Jan 2024 | Angela Carter's Fairy Tales with Marina Warner | 01:12:48 | |
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)
Dame Marina Warner
Once Upon a Time by Marina Warner https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/once-upon-a-time-9780198779858
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
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
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
Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 11 Jan 2024 | We Have Always Lived in the Castle with Ruth Franklin | 01:15:38 | |
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) 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) Penguin Audio edition of The Lottery and Other Stories, read by Francine Brody
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 Powers Market
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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 18 Jan 2024 | John Donne's poetry with Katherine Rundell | 01:19:35 | |
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)
Donne’s Selected Prose (Penguin Classics edition) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34100/selected-prose-by-donne-john/9780141396712
Naxos audiobook edition of Donne’s poetry, read by Geoffrey Whitehead and Will Keen https://naxosaudiobooks.com/john-donne-selections/
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/
Audiobook edition of Super-Infinite https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571378258-super-infinite/
Lincoln’s Inn https://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/
St Dunstan in the West https://www.stdunstaninthewest.org/
St Paul’s Cathedral
Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 25 Jan 2024 | Giovanni’s Room with Caryl Phillips | 01:11:09 | |
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) 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/
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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 01 Feb 2024 | William Blake's poetry with Philip Pullman | 00:56:16 | |
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)
Naxos Audiobooks edition of Blake’s poetry, read by Robert Glenister, Michael Maloney and Stephen Critchlow https://naxosaudiobooks.com/blake-william-selections/
Sir Philip Pullman https://www.philip-pullman.com/
Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman https://www.davidficklingbooks.com/shop/ItemDetails.php?pubID=190
Audiobook edition of Daemon Voices https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309349/daemon-voices-by-pullman-philip/9780241372906
The Blake Society
Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 18 Feb 2021 | Tristram Shandy with Frank Cottrell Boyce | 01:04:01 | |
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
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 14 Jan 2021 | Trailer | 00:01:23 | |
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 04 Feb 2021 | The Canterbury Tales with Patience Agbabi | 01:07:02 | |
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 Patience Agbabi https://twitter.com/patienceagbabi Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi https://canongate.co.uk/books/2125-telling-tales/ Refugee Tales 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 28 Jan 2021 | The Woman in White with Olivia Vinall | 00:50:04 | |
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
Olivia Vinall
The Woman in White (2018 BBC adaptation) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b157dw
The Ship Hotel, Allonby
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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 04 Mar 2021 | The Mill on the Floss with Louis de Bernières | 01:00:52 | |
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 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
George Eliot walking tour of Nuneaton http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/george-eliot/george-eliot-walking-tour.shtml Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 11 Feb 2021 | Mrs Dalloway with Alexandra Harris | 01:01:33 | |
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
Alexandra Harris https://www.alexandraharris.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/alexhharris
Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris
Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris https://thamesandhudson.com/woolf-9780500515921
Edgar Jones https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/edgar-jones Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||