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The Traitors Special: Literature's Greatest Traitors!
Episode 20
As Celebrity Traitors reaches its climax on BBC1 this week, Rupert and Charlie count down the Top 10 greatest traitors in literature. Who are the lit…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Booker Prize Winners: Milkman - Anna Burns
Episode 19
Milkman tells the story of an 18 year old girl living in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. The novel is set in the late 1970s, at a time when lar…
1 year ago
Booker Prize Winners: Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel - Part 2
Episode 18
In part 2 of Wolf Hall, Rupert and Charlie look at the way Hilary Mantel writes about the seismic changes occurring in England in the early 1530s. He…
1 year ago
Booker Prize Winners: Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel - Part 1
Episode 17
Wolf Hall is Hilary Mantel's radical and profoundly original reimagining of the story of Thomas Cromwell. Born the son of a blacksmith, Cromwell rose…
1 year ago
Booker Prize Winners: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka
Episode 16
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida won the Booker Prize in 2022, the first and only time it has been won by a Sri Lankan author. Set in the late 1980s,…
1 year ago
6 Books We've Recently Read
Episode 15
In this episode, Rupert and Charlie each choose 3 books they've read recently and enjoyed. Charlie discusses whether Shakespeare really wrote the pla…
1 year ago
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Episode 14
The critic F. R. Leavis said that the four great English novelists were Jane Austen, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad and Henry James. In the final episod…
1 year, 1 month ago
Middlemarch - George Eliot - Part 2
Episode 13
In the second episode of Middlemarch, Rupert and Charlie look at the timeless story of Bulstrode the banker and his downfall, and at the various grou…
1 year, 1 month ago
Middlemarch - George Eliot - Part 1
Episode 12
Written in 1871, George Eliot's masterpiece Middlemarch looks back 40 years to an England in the period just before the Great Reform Act. The charact…
1 year, 1 month ago
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Episode 11
Published in 1899, Heart of Darkness tells the story of Marlow, a sailor, who is sent on a mission up the Congo River to find out what has happened t…
1 year, 2 months ago