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Great Sporting Books
Episode 50
Sports Books: Open - Andre Agassi, Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby, Great Cricket Matches
Book In take a look at three books on sport. Open is the autobiogr…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
World Cup Special
Episode 49
It’s World Cup time again! As hope springs eternal for Harry Kane and Co, and as the nation becomes obsessed by whether England should play Rashford …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Odyssey - Homer
Episode 48
Around the 8th century BC, the inhabitants of Greece began to write things down. Amongst these were some of the poems telling of ancient times which …
4 months, 4 weeks ago
C20th Novels: The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
Episode 47
By the mid 1980s, Kingsley Amis was generally considered to be finished as a novelist. Devastated by the collapse of his marriage to Elizabeth Jane H…
5 months ago
C20th Novels: A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
Episode 46
What really happened in the Marabar Caves? This is the central mystery of A Passage to India, EM Forster’s most celebrated novel, set in colonial Ind…
5 months, 1 week ago
C20th Novels: The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Episode 45
Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American is set in Vietnam in the 1950s – the French are trying to hold on to colonial power and are supporting the s…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
C20th Novels: Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - Part 2
Episode 44
At Book In, we continue our discussion of Evelyn Waugh’s wonderful novel Brideshead Revisited. We look at the characters of the Marchmain family - th…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
C20th Novels: Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - Part 1
Episode 43
Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh’s most famous novel. Magnificent but flawed, he wrote it while recovering from an injury during the Second World…
6 months ago
Re-Release - Emma - Jane Austen
Episode 42
Another from the archives while Rupert is away scaling mountains. We'll be back soon!
Emma is one of only six novels that Jane Austen completed, and y…
6 months, 1 week ago
Re-Release - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Episode 41
Our first ever episode re-released: Rupert and Charlie discuss The Great Gatsby, Scott FitzGerald’s wonderful novel of love, loss and broken dreams. …
6 months, 2 weeks ago