On the Road with Penguin Classics

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On the Road with Penguin Classics

On the Road with Penguin Classics is a podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author and editor Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of a remarkable reader. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 1 FEB

    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 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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    56 min

  2. 25 JAN

    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 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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 11m

  3. 18 JAN

    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 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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 20m

  4. 11 JAN

    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 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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 16m

  5. 4 JAN

    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 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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 13m

  6. 21/12/2023

    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 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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 13m

  7. 14/12/2023

    A Clockwork Orange with Jeff Noon and Andrew Biswell

    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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 17m

  8. 07/12/2023

    Farewell, My Lovely with Dick Lochte

    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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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On the Road with Penguin Classics is a podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author and editor Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of a remarkable reader. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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