A Christmas Carol with Simon Callow – Christmas Special 2023
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 C…
Angela Carter's Fairy Tales with Marina Warner
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…
We Have Always Lived in the Castle with Ruth Franklin
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 sinist…
John Donne's poetry with Katherine Rundell
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 Run…
Giovanni’s Room with Caryl Phillips
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…
William Blake's poetry with Philip Pullman
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 A…
How do we define a classic novel? With Henry Eliot and Gill Hornby
What makes a book a classic? Who decided which books make it into the canon? And how long would it take to read the entire list? Join our exploration through our Classic bookshelves with author Henry Eliot who answers listener questions with reading recommendations from all eras. Plus, we delve int…
That Light
Nikhil and Raph talk to Henry Eliot about Yūko Tsushima's Territory of Light (1977/78, tr. Geraldine Harcourt, 2018) and Sonallah Ibrahim's That Smell (1966, tr. Robyn Cresswell, 2013).
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How to tackle reading the big Classics with Henry Eliot
In a special bonus episode taken from Episode 3: The Classics with Henry Eliot and Gill Hornby we share author and editor Henry Eliot's tips on tackling some of Classics' biggest tomes.
Explore the full list of the books discussed on this bonus episode and read the transcript by visiting: Bonus Ep…
The Master of Mazes vs The Big Green Monster
Three years ago, Becca was seeing double. Her hometown's hedge maze had an uncanny resemblance to a famous maze in England, but no one seemed to realize it except her. So Becca wants to know if the maze is, indeed, a copy. And if she's right, she wants credit where credit is due.LINKS:
- Adrian Fis…
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