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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
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Alan Taylor
https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/contributors/alan-taylor/
Muriel Spark Centenary Editions (Polygon)
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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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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...
Published 02/01/24
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...
Published 01/25/24