Stay ConnectedOn 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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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, illustratedby 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, illustratedby Yayoi Kusama
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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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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
Complete Poems
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33699/the-complete-poems/9780140422108.html
Selected Letters
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/177598/selected-letters/9780141192796.html
So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (introduced by Jane Campion)
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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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
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
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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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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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
Penguin audiobook of Nineteen Eighty-Four, read by Peter Capaldi
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1057013/nineteen-eighty-four/9780141989969.html
Robert Icke
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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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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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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Sam Selvon in Bayswater. The author and editor Susheila Nasta, Selvon’s literary executor, coasts a lime around the Water with Henry. They discuss The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, visiting Bayswater, Hyde Park and Piccadilly Circus, and discussing the experience of Caribbean migrants in 1950s London. They meet Howard Jeffery, Chairman of the Pepperpot Centre, a community centre for older Caribbean residents in west London.
Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57514/the-lonely-londoners/9780141188416.html
Susheila Nasta
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/nastas.html
https://twitter.com/susheila_nasta
Wasafiri
The Pepperpot Centre
https://www.pepperpotcentre.org.uk/
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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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