Season 2 Trailer

01/13/22 • 1 min

On the Road with Penguin Classics is a literary podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of remarkable readers.

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The Mill on the Floss with Louis de Bernières

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

Audiobook: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/the-mill-on-the-floss/id1528313409?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=audio-books_the_mill_on_the_floss&ls=1

Ebook: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-mill-on-the-floss/id374227455?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=books_the_mill_on_the_floss&ls=1

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

https://arburyestate.co.uk/

George Eliot walking tour of Nuneaton

http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/george-eliot/george-eliot-walking-tour.shtml

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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/

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