Episodes
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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 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)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33866/selected-poems-blake-by-william-blake-ed-professor-g-e-bentley-series-editor--christopher-ricks/9780140424461
https://apple.co/48HX8yM
Naxos Audiobooks edition of Blake’s poetry, read by Robert Glenister, Michael Maloney and Stephen Critchlow
https://naxosaudiobooks.com/blake-william-selections/
https://apple.co/3tRg676
Sir Philip Pullman
https://www.philip-pullman.com/
Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman
https://www.davidficklingbooks.com/shop/ItemDetails.php?pubID=190
https://apple.co/4aVkHpC
Audiobook edition of Daemon Voices
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309349/daemon-voices-by-pullman-philip/9780241372906
https://apple.co/47NE6Gl
The Blake Society
https://blakesociety.org/
Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/
Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/
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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)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57368/giovannis-room-by-james-baldwin-introduction-by-caryl-phillips/9780141186351
https://apple.co/3Hnscrz
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/
https://apple.co/4aTk0go
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/
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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)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33860/selected-poems-donne-by-john-donne-ed-professor-ilona-bell-series-editor--christopher-ricks/9780140424409
https://apple.co/48S5406
Donne’s Selected Prose (Penguin Classics edition)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34100/selected-prose-by-donne-john/9780141396712
https://apple.co/47NE1m1
Naxos audiobook edition of Donne’s poetry, read by Geoffrey Whitehead and Will Keen
https://naxosaudiobooks.com/john-donne-selections/
https://apple.co/3vHDpk8
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/
https://apple.co/47DGDCx
Audiobook edition of Super-Infinite
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571378258-super-infinite/
https://apple.co/3TSyR4I
Lincoln’s Inn
https://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/
St Dunstan in the West
https://www.stdunstaninthewest.org/
St Paul’s Cathedral
https://www.stpauls.co.uk/
Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/
Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/
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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)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133431/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191454
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)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133428/the-lottery-and-other-stories-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191430
Penguin Audio edition of The Lottery and Other Stories, read by Francine Brody
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133428/the-lottery-and-other-stories-by-jackson-shirley/9780141994871
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
http://www.moonscones.com/
Powers Market
https://powersmarket.com/
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/
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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)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57621/the-fairy-tales-of-charles-perrault-by-angela-carter-intro--jack-zipes/9780141189956
Dame Marina Warner
https://www.marinawarner.com/
Once Upon a Time by Marina Warner
https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/once-upon-a-time-9780198779858
https://apple.co/3TGDZJb
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
https://apple.co/48xHQfy
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/359636/the-bloody-chamber-and-other-stories-by-angela-carter/9780099588115
https://apple.co/3H1huqG
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
https://apple.co/3tMYcSO
Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/
Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/
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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
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34585/a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-writings-by-charles-dickens-intro-michael-slater/9780140439052
https://apple.co/3Te9UQQ
Penguin Audio edition of A Christmas Carol, read by Theo Ogundipe
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34585/a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-writings-by-dickens-charles/9780241455326
https://apple.co/46OVnhC
Simon Callow
https://simoncallow.com/
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/
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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
https://apple.co/41d2sHC
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
https://apple.co/3Te9HNy
Jeff Noon
http://jeffnoon.weebly.com/
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/
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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
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57024/the-big-sleep-and-other-novels-by-raymond-chandler/9780141182612
https://apple.co/3uH9E2J
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
https://apple.co/3NatWrM
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
https://apple.co/3sV2583
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
https://apple.co/47B39g9
Santa Monica City Hall
https://www.santamonica.gov/places/city-facilities/santa-monica-city-hall
The Georgian
https://www.thegeorgian.com/
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/
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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
https://apple.co/47HB0DU
Penguin audiobook edition of Frankenstein, read by Peter Noble and Colin Salmon
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55587/frankenstein-by-shelley-mary/9780241422625
https://apple.co/3us6tvv
Anil Seth
https://www.anilseth.com/
Being You by Anil Seth (Faber)
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571337729-being-you/
https://apple.co/40QlhQQ
Audiobook: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571360550-being-you/
https://apple.co/46t21tQ
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/
https://apple.co/49T6f0A
Audiobook: https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781528851244
https://apple.co/46t274G
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
https://www.brlsi.org/
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/
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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
https://apple.co/3MNDOaq
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
https://apple.co/3sFgFQY
Monica Ali
https://www.monicaali.com/
Love Marriage by Monica Ali
https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/monica-ali/love-marriage/9780349015507/
https://apple.co/3usPBVi
Penguin audiobook edition of Love Marriage, read by Ayesha Dharker
https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/monica-ali/love-marriage/9781405550291/
https://apple.co/47dHaMc
Jane Austen’s House
https://janeaustens.house/
Chawton House
https://chawtonhouse.org/
Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/
Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/
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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
https://apple.co/45OjA79
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
https://apple.co/46I1m8K
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/
https://apple.co/475esgb
Blackstone Publishing audiobook edition of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, read by Bernadette Dunne
https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/shirley-jackson?sp=67707
https://apple.co/40fy133
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.awre.net/
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/
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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.
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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
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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)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60345/the-pilgrims-progress-by-john-bunyan-ed-dr-roger-pooley/9780141439716
https://apple.co/3rtwupL
The Pilgrim’s Progress, read by David Shaw-Parker (Naxos Audiobook)
https://naxosaudiobooks.com/pilgrim-s-progress-the-unabridged/
https://apple.co/3dJ7Lu6
Rachel Joyce
https://www.rachel-joyce.co.uk/
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/413693/the-unlikely-pilgrimage-of-harold-fry-by-joyce-rachel/9780552778091
https://apple.co/3BPScJe
The Love Song of Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/420794/the-love-song-of-miss-queenie-hennessy-by-joyce-rachel/9781784160302
https://apple.co/3BKnW2p
Maureen and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/448497/maureen-fry-and-the-angel-of-the-north-by-joyce-rachel/9780857529008
https://apple.co/3CcaGF2
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/
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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)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57444/season-of-migration-to-the-north-by-tayeb-salih-trans-denys-johnson-davies/9780141187204
Leila Aboulela
http://www.leila-aboulela.com/
The Translator by Leila Aboulela
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-translator/
https://apple.co/3UGl6Uy
The Minaret by Leila Aboulela
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minaret-9780747579427/
https://apple.co/3xSuwTq
London Central Mosque
https://www.iccuk.org/
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
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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)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57066/the-book-of-disquiet-by-fernando-pessoatransrichard-zenith/9780241200131
https://apple.co/3SjNQRq
The Book of Disquiet, trans. Richard Zenith, read by Adam Sims (Naxos Audiobook)
https://naxosaudiobooks.com/book-of-disquiet-the-unabridged/
https://apple.co/3dIY9iY
Pessoa’s poems, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin Classics edition)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/62448/a-little-larger-than-the-entire-universe-by-fernando-pessoa-trans-richard-zenith/9780143039556
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
https://apple.co/3raTI3F
Casa Fernando Pessoa
https://www.casafernandopessoa.pt/en/cfp
Café a Brasileira
https://www.abrasileira.pt/?lang=en
Café Martinho da Arcada
https://martinhodaarcada.pt/
Livraria Bertrand, the oldest bookshop in the world
https://www.bertrand.pt/livrarias/livraria-bertrand-chiado/900
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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
https://apple.co/3LNOqEF
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
https://apple.co/3RgFU20
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
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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
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57481/the-hearing-trumpet-by-leonora-carrington-intro--ali-smith/9780141187990
Naxos audiobook of The Hearing Trumpet, read by Siân Phillips
https://naxosaudiobooks.com/hearing-trumpet-the-unabridged/
https://apple.co/3dOYfpp
Joanna Moorhead
http://www.joannamoorhead.org/
The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead
https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/joanna-moorhead/the-surreal-life-of-leonora-carrington/9780349008776/
https://apple.co/3SCdDUU
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
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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
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34581/confessions-of-an-english-opium-eater-by-thomas-de-quincey-ed--barry-milligan/9780140439014
https://apple.co/3SDKmZI
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
https://apple.co/3UIuIOz
W. F. Howes audiobook of Junky read by Mark Nelson
https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781471212291
https://apple.co/3ReJ3zt
Will Self
https://will-self.com/
Will by Will Self
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/176727/will-by-self-will/9780141046402
https://apple.co/3r89gVZ
W. F. Howes audiobook of Will, read by Will Self
https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781528888219
https://apple.co/3r8QZrh
The Colony Room Club – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/13/from-francis-bacon-to-tracey-emin-soho-historic-colony-room-club-in-pictures
William S. Burroughs and the Moka Bar
https://www.openculture.com/2014/12/how-william-s-burroughs-shut-down-londons-first-espresso-bar-1972.html
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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.
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