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New episode up now. Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr, with guests Rachael King
@rachaelking70
and Richard Blandford
@rblandford
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No new episode next Monday BUT a very special one landing on Christmas Day instead: The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. 🎄❄️📚
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We won! Thank you
#futurebook19
for making
@BacklistedPod
Podcast of the Year. We love you
@birchos
!
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News! Backlisted has just passed 4,000,000 listens. We are a podcast about (mostly) old books and we largely rely on word of mouth. So thank you if you’ve listened to the podcast or recommended it to others. We’re still here thanks to you. A, J, N & T x 🙏
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For this year's Christmas episode - available on Friday Dec 25th - we are thrilled to tell you we're discussing The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. We have something special planned too, more details to come. One more thing...
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New episode up now. The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper, with guests Robert Macfarlane
@RobGMacfarlane
and Jackie Morris
@JackieMorrisArt
. Merry Xmas everybody! 🎄📚❄️
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So (for the first time in two years) this just happened.
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The books we’re discussing on the next episode in TWO weeks’ time (Monday 13th June, earlier for
@Patreon
supporters) are Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959) by Mervyn Peake.
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Awful news today. Like so many readers, we loved Hilary Mantel. Here’s the episode we made a few years ago about our favourite of her novels and in our opinion her masterpiece, Beyond Black.
#RIP
🙏
@johnmitchinson
@i_am_mill_i_am
@Arifa_Akbar
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The book we’ll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (Mon 7th Feb, earlier for
@Patreon
supporters) is Dorothy L. Sayers’s ‘novel not without detection’, Gaudy Night (1935).
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To celebrate the
#WinterSolstice
and
#TheDarkIsReading
here’s our episode on Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising with
@RobGMacfarlane
and
@JackieMorrisArt
, first heard on Christmas Day last year.
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We’re giving away six original Virago Modern Classics. Follow and RT by midnight on Friday 1st July: the winner or winners will be informed next week. And you can listen to our episode on Rosamond Lehmann with guest
@elizabday
here.
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Finally we would like to thank all our guests over the last eight years and 200 episodes; all the writers, living and dead, whose work we’ve so enjoyed; and our listeners for their loyalty and enthusiasm. Love, N, A & J x (Photo: Chris Floyd
@chrisfloyduk
)
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Recording our 100th episode this morning with special guest
@PhilipPullman
discussing The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton.
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We are thrilled to have won the inaugural
@bookshop_org_UK
Indie Champions Award for podcast of the year! Honoured to be shortlisted alongside
@Damian_Barr
’s Salon and
@LitFriction
. Thank you to indie bookshops, all our guests and the dead authors we love. A, J & N x
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Martin Amis RIP. Here’s the (very funny) episode of Backlisted we made
in 2016 about his (equally funny) novel The Information. We laughed a lot.
@estellecostanza
@i_am_mill_i_am
@johnmitchinson
@mattzki
@Mathew__Clayton
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We are utterly delighted to have been named as one of 9 Podcasts That Shaped The Decade by Harper's Bazaar.
@BazaarUK
@BazaarArabia
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The book we’ll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (Mon 14th March, earlier for
@Patreon
supporters) is Fungus the Bogeyman (1977) by the very great Raymond Briggs.
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Far from disappointing ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for Backlisted in The Times
@timesonline
this morning. "A book show for believers ... the best literary podcast." Thank you
@j_amesmarriott
.
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Raymond Briggs has died. Earlier this year we made this show to salute his courage, his humour and his genius. Please listen, you will laugh and cry.
#RIP
@NadiaShireen
@Andr6wMale
@johnmitchinson
@i_am_mill_i_am
@birchos
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We're back tomorrow! And it's our long-awaited episode on Excellent Women, "another novel by Barbara Pym". The show will be released just after midnight so if you want to hear it early or have it there when you wake up, SUBSCRIBE! Happy Easter everyone. John, Andy & Nicky x
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1,000,000 downloads in 2021. For an indie podcast about old books, this is pretty astonishing. Thanks everyone and thanks for your support through another tough year. If you’d like to help us keep the lights on, please do it via our
@Patreon
. A, J & N x
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We are giving away a copy of Submarine by Eric Ravilious, courtesy of the wonderful
@MainstonePress
. RT by midnight on Friday 3rd June: the winner will be informed next week. You can read more about this beautiful book at Mainstone’s website here.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. -- Leonard Cohen
#RIP
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (date TBC) is Winifred Holtby's final, posthumously-published novel South Riding (1936).
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode (Mon Nov 11th) is The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald.
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NEWS! We are back from our sabbatical with a special (and long overdue) episode on Graham Greene. The show will be freely available from Tuesday morning but if you are a Patreon, you can listen - and chat about it - this weekend. Sign up here.
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Seven years in, we’ve just enjoyed our biggest month to date. Thank you to all our guests in October, to Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, Dervla Murphy and Henry James, and to listeners around the world. Andy, John, Nicky & Tess x 🙏
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Good morning! Later on today we'll let you know the first five or so books we'll be discussing when we return next month. Enforced reading time for many of us so let's show those books who's boss. 📚
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Good morning! The solstice is here, the dark is rising. Start reading now and be prepared for our Susan Cooper episode to arrive on Christmas Day.
'He was crystal-clear awake, in a Midwinter Day that had been waiting for him to wake into it since the day he had been born, and, somehow he knew, for centuries before that. Tomorrow will be beyond imagining... '
#TheDarkisRising
#midwinter
#WinterSolstice
@BacklistedPod
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Toni Morrison RIP. This episode was recorded a couple of months ago. We loved her.
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Thanks to Rosemary Tonks, Steve Tesich and Joseph Roth - all the starry names - plus the generous and erudite guests without whom we couldn't make the shows, Backlisted has just enjoyed its biggest month to date. Thank you loyal listeners, you really are brilliant. J, A & N x
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The book we’ll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (Mon 28th March, earlier for
@Patreon
supporters) is The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon.
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WE'VE DONE IT! WE'VE JUST PASSED 1,000,000 LISTENS! THANK YOU EVERYONE, YOU ARE ALL AMAZING!!
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PS. It's been a long, hard year with a surfeit of challenges for everyone. Making these shows has been a lifeline for us in 2020 so we aim to end it on a high. Thank you for listening. A, J & N x
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We appear to have been included in Oprah Magazine's selection of 2020's best book podcasts. Thank you, we are surprised and delighted!
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The book we’ll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (Tues 20th Sept, earlier for Patreon supporters) is Elizabeth Gaskell’s ever-topical novel of industrial strife and personal hardship, North and South (1854).
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We'd like to thank all our listeners for getting together and giving this present on Christmas morning. It's just what we wanted. A, J & N x
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Episode 100 up now. The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, with guest Sir Philip Pullman
@PhilipPullman
.
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode is Toni Morrison's novel Beloved (1987).
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The book we'll be discussing with guest Sir Philip Pullman on our 100th episode (Mon Sept 2nd) is The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton.
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New! Last night we got together to record an emergency Winter Reading episode of Backlisted: a pile of books to see you through the months ahead. It will be with you on Monday (and
@Patreon
supporters get the show this afternoon). 📚
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode (Mon Nov 12th) is Tove Jansson's Moominvalley in November.
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Morning all! Thanks for all your feedback and lovely comments about yesterday’s new episode on The Railway Children. And thank you for giving us our MILLIONTH download of the year! And on Christmas Day!
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode is Hilary Mantel's masterpiece of mediums and malice (in the M25 corridor), Beyond Black.
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The book we’ll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (Mon 25th April, earlier for
@Patreon
supporters) is Natalia Ginzburg’s novel Lessico famigliare AKA Family Lexicon (1963).
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Brilliant news! Rosemary Tonks's novel The Bloater will be republished in Spring 2022 and Backlisted was instrumental in making it happen. Bravo
@lily_lindon
and
@vintagebooks
. 👏
@BacklistedPod
, you’ve done it again...
Delighted to say THE BLOATER by Rosemary Tonks will be republished by Vintage Classics in Spring 2022!
One of my absolute favourites. Excited for everyone to be able to read the wonderfully revolted Tonks for themselves.
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New podcast! We got together virtually on Friday and recorded this. The Mirror and the Light, miserable books to cheer you up in a crisis, tips to keep you reading, why there are no bad Burt Lancaster films, the Devil's interval AND MORE.
#Locklisted
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode (Mon 18th) is Rebecca West's debut novel The Return of the Soldier, first published in 1918.
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New episode up now. The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, with guests Jessie Greengrass
@JessGreengrass
and Philip Hoare
@philipwhale
.
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Like many, we are deeply saddened by the dreadful news about Brian Hamill
@thecommonbreath
. His love of literature encompassed readers, writers, the publishing process and Backlisted itself. We will really miss him and our thoughts go out to his friends and family. A, J & N x
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The book we’ll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (Monday 23rd May, earlier for
@Patreon
supporters) is The Death of the Heart (1938) by Elizabeth Bowen.
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Christmas episode up now. The Railway Children by E. Nesbit, with guests Katherine Rundell and Frank Cottrell-Boyce
@frankcottrell_b
.🎄🚂📚
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We’re back! New episode up now. Books, short stories and more by Graham Greene, with Andy Miller
@i_am_mill_i_am
, John Mitchinson
@johnmitchinson
and Nicky Birch
@birchos
.
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NEWS! We are taking a sabbatical from Backlisted. Regular episodes will recommence in April. In the meantime, there will be monthly specials, a few select repeats and Locklisted will continue on
@Patreon
. Thank you for supporting us. A, J & N x
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode (Mon 21st) is Jilly Cooper's 1978 novel Imogen.
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode (June 11th) is The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter.
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The book we’ll be discussing on this year’s Hallowe’en episode (Sunday Oct 31, earlier for
@Patreon
supporters) is Elizabeth Jane Howard’s fifth novel Something in Disguise, first published in 1969. 🎃👻💀
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New episode up now. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, with guests Katherine Rundell and Frank Cottrell-Boyce
@frankcottrell_b
PLUS readings from Tristram Shandy by Steve Coogan, exclusively for Backlisted.
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New episode on Josephine Tey's Miss Pym Disposes is coming on Monday (or today if you're a
@Patreon
supporter) with special guest
@valmcdermid
. In the meantime here's a pre-Blondie, post-torso DEBBIE HARRY on the jacket of another Tey classic.
@GraniteNoirFest
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode (Mon Apr 15th) is Charles Dickens's late masterpiece Great Expectations.
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Our next episode will be a Halloween special devoted to the strange stories of Robert Aickman, especially those in Cold Hand in Mine.
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To mark our 150th episode and his 200th birthday, the book we’ll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (Mon Nov 15, earlier for
@Patreon
supporters) is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes From Under the Floorboards AKA Notes from Underground. 📚🎂🐜
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Season one of this podcast has lasted over four years and tbh we need a chance to catch up on everything except our reading. But we'll be back in the spring. (Season two will see John and Andy fighting crime on the streets of Baltimore.)
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode (Mon Apr 29th) is Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, first published in 1722 and as gripping and as uncategorisable as ever.
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News! "No biggie" - as Philip Larkin would have said - but today's podcast has pushed Backlisted past HALF A MILLION listens. We are
#quitepleased
. Thanks everyone for listening and for supporting us this far. Old books really do have magical properties.
@unbounders
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Happy new year to all Backlisted listeners from our winter retreat. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Love, John, Andy and Nicky x
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode (Monday Sept 28th, earlier for
@Patreon
supporters) is George Gissing's novel The Odd Women (1893).
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode - Christmas Day! - is Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. 🎄📚
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This evening's Locklisted recording is going ahead as planned.
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The book we’ll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (Mon 9th May, earlier for
@Patreon
supporters) is De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, first published in edited form by Methuen in 1905.
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New episode up now. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym, with guests Becky Brown
@b3ckybr0wn
and Norah Perkins
@norahperkins
from
@CBGHeritage
.
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News! Backlisted will return on Tuesday 6th September (Sat 3rd for
@Patreon
supporters) with an episode devoted to Annie Dillard’s modern classic Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974). Join us here:
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode (Mon Aug 5th) is Russell Hoban's masterpiece, Riddley Walker.
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New podcast! We got together virtually on Friday and recorded this. Trollope dissing Dickens, Uncut Gems, Ian Nairn à Paris, Lockdown songs, an exaltation of Larks Ascending AND MORE. By the end we were all very emotional. Enjoy!
#Locklisted
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News! Sorry everyone but owing to illness, tomorrow's episode on Halldór Laxness's The Fish Can Sing has had to be postponed for a few days. We hope to publish it this week but first we have to record it. Many thanks for your patience. A, J & N x
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The book we’ll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (Tues 19th July, earlier for
@Patreon
supporters) is The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) by John Wyndham.
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Friends, we are planning to record a Locklisted via satellite link-up later in the week and get it out to subscribers ASAP.
#cheersyouup
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The book we’ll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (Mon 4th July🤞) is Paul Theroux’s The Kingdom by the Sea (1983). Forty years on from the journey around the UK described in its pages, it makes fascinating reading.
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (Mon Nov 23rd or earlier for
@Patreon
supporters chiz) is The Compleet Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans & Ronald Searle.
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Backlisted listener Margaret Drabble thinks we are a useful podcast and what higher praise could there be? Many thanks to
@stevenpoole
for spotting this in an essay on Russell Hoban and Riddley Walker in new
@TheTLS
.
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We are Podcast of the Week in
@thesundaytimes
! Thank you
@PatriciaNicol
and
@ST_Culture
for your kind words. And yes, our episode on Moominvalley in November with guest
@frankcottrell_b
will be posted tomorrow!
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New episode up now. The Compleet Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans & Ronald Searle, with guests Martin Rowson
@MartinRowson
and Lissa Evans
@LissaKEvans
. And it's our 5th birthday episode CHEERS CHEERS CHEERS. 🥂🎂📚🎉
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The book we’ll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (Mon Oct 18, earlier for
@Patreon
supporters) is Dorothy Baker’s fourth and final novel Cassandra at the Wedding (1962).
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Thanks everyone who came to
@TheLondonLib
and made it such a special night. Merry Christmas! Love,
@i_am_mill_i_am
@birchos
@LissaKEvans
@johnmitchinson
.
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The book we'll be celebrating on our 5th BIRTHDAY SHOW cheers cheers is The Compleet Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle. This will be Mon Nov 23rd but as any fule kno
@Patreon
supporters can listen earlier. Then...
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Forthcoming episodes of Backlisted are, we hope:
Apr 13 - Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Apr 27 - Journal of a Disappointed Man by Barbellion
May 11 - Garp by John Irving
May 25 - Frost in May by Antonia White
Jun 8 - The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy
One more thing...
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News! February 2022 was Backlisted’s biggest month to date. Massive thanks to our guests
@eggsbened
@JasonHazeley
@HarrietEvans
@francescawade
@TanyaKirk
@unamccormack
, to Stephen Sondheim, Dorothy L. Sayers and Winifred Holtby, and to listeners around the world. A, J & N x
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News! We recorded another Locklisted yesterday afternoon and all being well it will be available "to enjoy" on Monday morning. And if you don't already subscribe to Backlisted, please do and then you'll get it early.
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If you were intrigued by our recent episode on Émile Zola and Thérèse Raquin, you can listen to
@MichaelRosenYes
's account of the author's season in exile (and Croydon) here.
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One hundred years of this remarkable novel and still no
@BacklistedPod
episode. We will get to it as soon as the
#Bloomsday100
fuss dies down and that’s a promise. In the meantime, read it. Again.
#Bloomsday
#Bloomsday2022
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The book we’ll be discussing on the next episode of Backlisted (Tues 18th Oct, earlier for
@Patreon
supporters) is the late Dervla Murphy’s travel writing classic, Full Tilt (1965). 🚲
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New episode up now. Looking back at Samuel Beckett. John, Andy and Nicky discuss plays, books and stories including Dante... Bruno. Vico... Joyce; More Pricks Than Kicks; The Unnamable; Krapp's Last Tape; and Company.
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The book we'll be discussing on the next episode - Halloween - is Shirley Jackson's final novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
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Breaking news! On Mon Apr 26th we'll be discussing - with even more digressions than normal - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne.
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