On the Road with Penguin Classics
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Tristram Shandy with Frank Cottrell Boyce
On the Road with Penguin Classics
02/18/21 • 64 min
Laurence Sterne in Coxwold. The screenwriter and children’s author Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the screenplay for A Cock and Bull Story (the 2005 film adaptation of Tristram Shandy), digresses around the little village of Coxwold in North Yorkshire with Henry. They discuss Laurence Sterne’s novel and veer off on various tangents as they meander from St Michael’s Church, where Sterne was perpetual curate, to Shandy Hall, where he wrote most of Tristram Shandy. They meet the curator, Patrick Wildgust, who guides them through the eccentric building.
Penguin Classics edition of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Frank Cottrell Boyce
https://twitter.com/frankcottrell_b
A Cock and Bull Story, dir. Michael Winterbottom
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423409/
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/frank-cottrellboyce/cosmic/9781529008777
Shandy Hall & The Laurence Sterne Trust
https://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/
St Michael’s Church
https://www.coxwoldvillage.org/index.php/coxwold-church-north-yorkshire-st-michael-and-all-angels
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A Clockwork Orange with Jeff Noon and Andrew Biswell
On the Road with Penguin Classics
12/14/23 • 77 min
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
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
Jeff Noon
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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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with Chris Riddell
On the Road with Penguin Classics
03/03/22 • 68 min
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
Penguin audiobook of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, read by Katie Leung
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
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
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Yayoi Kusama
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William Blake's poetry with Philip Pullman
On the Road with Penguin Classics
02/01/24 • 56 min
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)
Naxos Audiobooks edition of Blake’s poetry, read by Robert Glenister, Michael Maloney and Stephen Critchlow
https://naxosaudiobooks.com/blake-william-selections/
Sir Philip Pullman
https://www.philip-pullman.com/
Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman
https://www.davidficklingbooks.com/shop/ItemDetails.php?pubID=190
Audiobook edition of Daemon Voices
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309349/daemon-voices-by-pullman-philip/9780241372906
The Blake Society
Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/
Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/
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Ulysses with Anne Fogarty
On the Road with Penguin Classics
02/02/22 • 74 min
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
Penguin audiobook of Ulysses, read by Patrick Gibson
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1057043/ulysses/9780241422601.html
Anne Fogarty
https://people.ucd.ie/anne.fogarty
The James Joyce Centre
The James Joyce Tower & Museum
Davy Byrnes
Sweny’s Pharmacy
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie with Alan Taylor
On the Road with Penguin Classics
02/24/22 • 68 min
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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Giovanni’s Room with Caryl Phillips
On the Road with Penguin Classics
01/25/24 • 71 min
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)
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/
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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Season 4 Trailer
On the Road with Penguin Classics
10/26/23 • 1 min
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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Season 2 Trailer
On the Road with Penguin Classics
01/13/22 • 1 min
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The Mill on the Floss with Louis de Bernières
On the Road with Penguin Classics
03/04/21 • 60 min
George Eliot in Nuneaton. The novelist Louis de Bernières explores the landscape around Nuneaton in Warwickshire, the birthplace of Mary Ann Evans, or George Eliot. They discuss The Mill on the Floss, visiting the Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery and the Griff House Beefeater, which was Eliot's childhood home and the inspiration for Dorlcote Mill in the novel. They also meet Adam Weaver, land agent of the Arbury Estate, the same position held by Eliot’s father.
Penguin Classics edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60341/the-mill-on-the-floss/9780141439624.html
Louis de Bernières
https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1017789/louis-de-bernieres.html
Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery
https://www.nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk/info/20038/museum_and_art_gallery/160/museum_and_art_gallery
Griff House Beefeater
https://www.beefeater.co.uk/en-gb/locations/warwickshire/griff-house
The Arbury Estate
George Eliot walking tour of Nuneaton
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/george-eliot/george-eliot-walking-tour.shtml
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How many episodes does On the Road with Penguin Classics have?
On the Road with Penguin Classics currently has 34 episodes available.
What topics does On the Road with Penguin Classics cover?
The podcast is about Classics, Literature, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Podcasts, Books and Arts.
What is the most popular episode on On the Road with Penguin Classics?
The episode title 'Tristram Shandy with Frank Cottrell Boyce' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on On the Road with Penguin Classics?
The average episode length on On the Road with Penguin Classics is 59 minutes.
How often are episodes of On the Road with Penguin Classics released?
Episodes of On the Road with Penguin Classics are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of On the Road with Penguin Classics?
The first episode of On the Road with Penguin Classics was released on Jan 14, 2021.
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