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On the Road with Penguin Classics Henry Eliot
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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.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with Chris Riddell
Lewis Carroll in Oxford. The illustrator and political cartoonist Chris Riddell wanders the streams and streets of Oxford with Henry, visiting the locations that inspired Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. They meet Sophie Hiscock at the Story Museum and visit Christ Church College.
Penguin Classics editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60348/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland-and-through-the-looking-glass/9780141439761.html
https://apple.co/34adQe5
Penguin audiobook of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, read by Katie Leung
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1060348/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland-and-through-the-looking-glass/9780241442425.html
https://apple.co/3r1h1gQ
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Chris Riddell
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lewis-carroll/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/9781529002461
Through the Looking-Glass, illustrated by Chris Riddell
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lewis-carroll/through-the-lookingglass-and-what-alice-found-there/9781529007503
The Hunting of the Snark, illustrated by Chris Riddell
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/chris-riddell/the-hunting-of-the-snark/9781529006957
Chris Riddell
https://chrisriddellblog.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/chrisriddell50
The Story Museum
https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/
Alice’s Shop
https://aliceinwonderlandshop.com/
Christ Church College
https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Yayoi Kusama
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/181654/lewis-carroll-s-alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland--with-artwork-b/9780141197302.html
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie with Alan Taylor
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
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/appointment-in-arezzo-2/
Alan Taylor
https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/contributors/alan-taylor/
Muriel Spark Centenary Editions (Polygon)
https://birlinn.co.uk/muriel-spark/
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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Keats's poetry with Andrew Motion
John Keats in Hampstead. The poet and biographer Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, strolls around the village of Hampstead with Henry. They discuss the short life and luscious poetry of John Keats, walking on the Heath, visiting Leigh Hunt’s house in the Vale of Health and finishing at Wentworth Place (now Keats House), where they meet its principal curator, Rob Shakespeare.
Penguin Classics editions of Keats:
Selected Poems
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33867/selected-poems--keats/9780140424478.html
https://apple.co/3IE3ZMC
Complete Poems
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33699/the-complete-poems/9780140422108.html
https://apple.co/3H4pUMy
Selected Letters
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/177598/selected-letters/9780141192796.html
https://apple.co/3FUzvUx
So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (introduced by Jane Campion)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60470/so-bright-and-delicate--love-letters-and-poems-of-john-keats-to-/9780141442471.html
https://apple.co/33kffP9
Andrew Motion
https://poets.org/poet/andrew-motion
Keats by Andrew Motion
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571346660-keats/
The Invention of Dr Cake by Andrew Motion
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571216321-the-invention-of-dr-cake/
Keats House
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/attractions-museums-entertainment/keats-house
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The Blazing World with Michael Bravo
Margaret Cavendish beyond the North Pole. The polar researcher Dr Michael Bravo Joins Henry in Cambridge to discuss The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish, the maverick Duchess of Newcastle. Blending fantasy, philosophy and seventeenth-century science, they visit the Polar Museum, the Whipple Museum and Cambridge University Library. They meet Dr Joshua Nall, an expert on the history of science, and Dr Emily Dourish, deputy keeper of rare books.
Penguin Classics editions of The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34205/the-blazing-world-and-other-writings/9780140433722.html
https://apple.co/3IAMNY5
Penguin audiobook of The Blazing World, read by Abigail Thaw
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34205/the-blazing-world-and-other-writings/9780141993393.html
https://apple.co/3u6gpIK
Michael Bravo
https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/bravo/
North Pole by Michael Bravo
http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781789140088
The Polar Museum
https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/
The Whipple Museum
https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/
The Cambridge University Library Rare Books Department
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/rare-books
Joshua Nall
https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/nall
Emily Dourish
https://twitter.com/emilydourish?lang=en
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Ulysses with Anne Fogarty
James Joyce in Dublin. Professor Anne Fogarty joins Henry in Dublin to recreate a day in the life of Leopold Bloom. They discuss Ulysses by James Joyce and visit the Martello Tower where the novel opens, Eccles Street, Davy Byrnes and the National Library. They meet Darina Gallagher, director of the James Joyce Centre, who coordinates the annual Bloomsday celebrations.
2 February 2022 is the 100th anniversary of the first book publication of Ulysses.
Penguin Modern Classics editions of Ulysses by George Orwell
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57043/ulysses/9780141182803.html
https://apple.co/3KEWdDP
Penguin audiobook of Ulysses, read by Patrick Gibson
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1057043/ulysses/9780241422601.html
https://apple.co/3H81bqI
Anne Fogarty
https://people.ucd.ie/anne.fogarty
The James Joyce Centre
https://jamesjoyce.ie/
The James Joyce Tower & Museum
https://joycetower.ie/
Davy Byrnes
https://davybyrnes.com/
Sweny’s Pharmacy
https://www.sweny.ie/
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Nineteen Eighty-Four with Robert Icke
George Orwell in Airstrip One. The writer and director Robert Icke joins Henry to explore the real-world locations in London that inspired George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Together they tour the Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Love and Room 101. Robert co-adapted and co-directed the award-winning 2013 stage adaptation 1984, which has played on the West End and Broadway and toured the UK, the USA and Australia.
Penguin Modern Classics editions of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57013/nineteen-eighty-four/9780141187761.html
https://apple.co/32u5uNJ
Penguin audiobook of Nineteen Eighty-Four, read by Peter Capaldi
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1057013/nineteen-eighty-four/9780141989969.html
https://apple.co/3fSibVQ
Robert Icke
https://roberticke.com/
Robert Icke’s production of 1984
https://headlong.co.uk/productions/1984/
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/1984-9781350262713/
UCL Senate House
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/libraries-and-study-spaces/ucl-senate-house-hub
BBC Broadcasting House
https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/buildings/broadcasting-house/
Untitled (Room 101) by Rachel Whiteread
http://www.modusoperandi-art.com/projects/bbc_untitled_room_101/
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Customer Reviews
Excellent new literary views from Penguin
Great new podcast and my type of listening. Wonderfully put together with Henry as a beautiful presenter. Well done and thank you for this
new addition.
Bringing literature to life
This is a wonderful addition to my Podcast subscription listening. Brings some of the best Penguin Classics books to life in an engaging and fascinating way. It has inspired me to read more classical literature and I will definitely being replicating some of the journeys taken by Henry Eliot. Highly recommended.
Visiting Yorick In Yorkshire
This was wonderful! I have never reviewed any podcast before but this visit to Coxwold and Shandy Hall and Lawrence Sterne’s Life and Adventures of Tristram Shandy was brilliant. In an ideal world you should visit the village and see the church memorial and hear Patrick Wildgust speak in person in the sitting room. But failing that possibility listen to this podcast and bring Sterne and his book to life.