Around the World in 80 Books

Phileas Fogg

Podcast by Phileas Fogg

  1. 08/28/2022

    Impressions of Cromer(Saffron Summerfield)

    Impressions of Cromer Saffron Summerfield With this soundscape I created a jaunty tune as a basic canvas to reflect and bounce the sounds of this joyful seaside town in high summer. To me, Cromer has a strong ‘sense of place’ which echoes in the local voices I heard and recorded. The high-pitched sounds of commerce, the shifting tide, a happy fisherman and a general busyness weave below and above the promenade and pier. The raucous. unmusical calls of black-headed gulls and starlings mingle with the street musician and the metallic clang of slot machines. A local, soft voice gives a clear appreciation of what the town means to them. *** This soundscape was commissioned as part of the Republic of Reading project, funded by Arts Council of England. repofreading.wordpress.com

    Impressions of Cromer(Saffron Summerfield)

  2. 06/29/2020

    20 - Nineteen-Hundred (Alessandro Baricco)

    Danny Boodman TD Lemon Nineteen-Hundred was born on a ship and on a ship he died. In between, he didn't play music, he played something else. And if you asked him what he thought about while he was playing, he would tell you about that time he was strolling on the Pont Neuf, waiting for sunset... Nineteen-Hundred travelled with his music, in his mind. We travel with books.

    20 - Nineteen-Hundred (Alessandro Baricco)

  3. 06/18/2020

    19 - Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)

    In 1966, Gregory Rabassa won the first National Book Award to recognise the work of a translator for his English-language edition of Hopscotch. Julio Cortázar was so pleased with Rabassa's translation of Hopscotch that he recommended the translator to Gabriel García Márquez when García Márquez was looking for someone to translate his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude into English.

    19 - Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)

  4. 06/16/2020

    18 - Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)

    Infectively ridiculous, inevitably imaginative and charmingly irreverent Pippi is the kind of friend who lies all the time, but is also too funny to just drop. AND she's really, really, really strong. She can lift her horse, her dad is the king of the cannibals and she also happens to be rich.

    18 - Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)

  5. 06/09/2020

    17 - Cady's Life (Anne Frank)

    As well as her diary, Anne Frank wrote so much more when she was hiding with her family in what she called "The Secret Annex". She wrote tales, rewrote paragraphs and sentences from other books, and she began a novel titled Cady's Life, which begins with a young girl waking up after a car accident. Her writings are collected in the book "Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex".

    17 - Cady's Life (Anne Frank)

  6. 06/01/2020

    16 - War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

    It all starts with Anna Pávlovna Schérer, maid of honour and favourite of the Empress Márya Fëdorovna, getting bored. 587,287 words later, you get The Greatest Russian Novel of All Times. We give you the first 2000, and suggest that you find a quiet spot and read the rest, soon.

    16 - War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

  7. 05/24/2020

    15 - The Paul Street Boys (Ferenc Molnár, read by George Szirtes)

    A Hungarian youth classic novel of war and friendship, here is an excerpt from chapter 1, read by a most illustrious guest: British/Hungarian poet and literary translator George Szirtes.

    15 - The Paul Street Boys (Ferenc Molnár, read by George Szirtes)

  8. 05/20/2020

    14 - The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)

    A stranger comes to town. Only, the town is Moscow and the stranger is the Devil. Oh, and there's a woman and a giant cat.

    14 - The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
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