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4.8 stars from 1,446 ratings
My new favourite podcast
I love this podcast. It's like an old friend pulling a book from the shelf and enthusing about it with such wit and intelligence that you want to rush out and grab your own copy. What I particularly appreciate is the connection the hosts have to the books being discussed.Read full review »
Oscar Mathieson via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 04/11/24
A friend introduced me to this podcast and it’s so lovely. I can’t claim to be anywhere near the level of erudite reading these folk attain but, like the best podcasts, it doesn’t matter. The choices are eclectic (from coffee table books and their delights to fungus the bogeyman and Anne Sexton),...Read full review »
Mits(u) via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 04/03/24
A warm blanket of a Podcast
A previous reviewer described this podcast as both challenging and comforting at the same time - summing up much of my feelings about this gem. Yes it can be a bit ‘laddish’ on occasions but the presenters are so charming and funny this is quickly forgiven. I am still working my way through the...Read full review »
Sooperb59 via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 02/27/24
Recent Episodes
Novelist Andrew Hunter Murray and biographer Laura Thompson join us to discuss The Children of Men (1992), a dystopian thriller by the late P.D. James. The author is probably best remembered as one of Britain's greatest exponents of detective fiction, an heir to the Golden Age of female novelists...
Published 04/08/24
Published 04/08/24
Award-winning poet Emily Berry joins us to consider the work and troubled life of Anne Sexton. We focus on her brilliant second collection All My Pretty Ones (1962). Sexton was a trailblazing American poet of the so-called 'confessional' school of the 1960s, one whose writing continues to provoke...
Published 03/26/24
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