On the Road with Penguin Classics Penguin Random House UK

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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