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Virginia Woolf in Westminster. The biographer Alexandra Harris, author of Romantic Moderns (2010), haunts the streets of Westminster with Henry. They discuss Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, tracing the course of the novel as it unfolds over a single day, visiting Bond Street, Regent’s Park and Tavistock Square. They also meet Edgar Jones, Professor in the History of Medicine and Psychiatry at King’s College London, a leading authority on shell shock.
Penguin Modern Classics edition of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57014/mrs-dalloway/9780241436271.html
Alexandra Harris
https://www.alexandraharris.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/alexhharris
Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris
Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
https://thamesandhudson.com/woolf-9780500515921
Edgar Jones
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/edgar-jones
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Geoffrey Chaucer in Kent. The poet and performer Patience Agbabi, author of Telling Tales (2014), makes a pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury with Henry. They discuss The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer as they travel by train, stopping off at Dartford and Rochester, covering Chaucer’s life and times, poetry and pilgrims, including the Knight, the Miller, the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner. In Canterbury they meet David Herd, co-founder of Refugee Tales, an annual public walk that raises awareness around indefinite immigration detention.
Penguin Classics editions of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33721/the-canterbury-tales/9780140422344.html
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33858/the-canterbury-tales/9780140424386.html
Patience Agbabi
https://twitter.com/patienceagbabi
Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi
https://canongate.co.uk/books/2125-telling-tales/
Refugee Tales
https://commapress.co.uk/books/refugee-tales
David Herd
https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/91/www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/91/herd-david
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Wilkie Collins in Cumbria. The actress Olivia Vinall, star of the 2018 BBC adaptation of The Woman in White, explores the Cumbrian coastline with Henry. They discuss Wilkie Collins’s novel and visit the Ship Hotel in Allonby, where Collins stayed with Charles Dickens. They also visit Ewanrigg Hall, the inspiration for Limmeridge House, and meet Doris Riley, author of The Rise and Fall of Ewanrigg Hall, who tells them a haunting ghost story.
Penguin Classics edition of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60340/the-woman-in-white/9780141439617.html
Olivia Vinall
The Woman in White (2018 BBC adaptation)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b157dw
The Ship Hotel, Allonby
Ewanrigg Hall
https://houseandheritage.org/2017/04/07/ewanrigg-hall/
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-lazy-tour-of-two-idle-apprentices-9781847497741/
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On the Road with Penguin Classics is a new literary 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 remarkable readers.
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