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The Caretaker - Harold Pinter
Episode 40
Two brothers live in a squalid bedsit in west London. The room is crammed with junk. They befriend Davies, who is homeless and a tramp. He moves in w…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Arcadia - Tom Stoppard
Episode 39
Tom Stoppard was glamorous, charismatic and brilliant, and his plays are among the finest written in English since the Second World War. Perhaps his …
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Wuthering Heights - Film Review
Episode 38
Tune in for Book In’s review of Emerald Fennell’s film Wuthering Heights. The advance publicity promised a modern and original take on Emily Bronte’s…
7 months ago
The Great Tradition - F. R. Leavis
Episode 37
The Great Tradition - which are the greatest novels we have done in the podcast?
What are the greatest novels in the English language? On Book In, we…
7 months, 1 week ago
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - Part 2
Episode 36
Charlie and Rupert continue their discussion of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. What effect had the First World War had on the rarefied circles in wh…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - Part 1
Episode 35
At the age of 40 Virginia Woolf was a prominent figure in post first world war London. She had published several novels, and was a well known comment…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy - Part 2
Episode 34
In the second part of Book In’s episode on Thomas Hardy’s great novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, Rupert and Charlie look at the character of Michael …
8 months ago
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy - Part 1
Episode 33
Thomas Hardy lived an extraordinary life. He was born into poverty and obscurity in rural Dorset in 1840, yet when he died in 1928, he was rich and w…
8 months, 1 week ago
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Part 2
Episode 32
Rupert and Charlie continue their discussion of Great Expectations. They take a look at what was always one of Dickens' great preoccupations, the ope…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Part 1
Episode 31
Published at the height of his powers in 1860, Great Expectations is Charles Dickens’ penultimate novel, and one of his very greatest. Its characters…
8 months, 3 weeks ago