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Back to SearchPride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Episode 10
The slow burn love affair between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is one of the best known and best loved stories in the English language, fuelled by m…
1 year, 2 months ago
Update on the Podcast - How it's Going, and What's Coming Up
Episode 9
A short episode to update everyone - we started Book In a couple of months ago, with a plan to do 8 episodes and see how we got on. The response has …
1 year, 2 months ago
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Episode 8
In 1606, James 1st had been King of England for three years. Most of his Stewart ancestors had met bloody and violent deaths, so for Shakespeare to w…
1 year, 3 months ago
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Episode 7
Hamlet is one of the most famous, most performed and most analysed pieces of literature ever written. Every generation sees something of themselves i…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Episode 6
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was the first poem in Lyrical Ballads, the groundbreaking volume of poetry published by Coleridge and Wordsworth in 1…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Waste Land
Episode 5
Published in 1922, T.S.Eliot's poem The Waste Land is a definitive text of modernism, and one of the towering cultural achievements of the twentieth …
1 year, 3 months ago
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Episode 4
Emily Bronte was one of six children brought up on the bleak Yorkshire moors, and was described by her sister Charlotte as “not a person of demonstra…
1 year, 4 months ago
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Episode 2
Rupert and Charlie look at George Orwell’s masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. Austere, prescient, terrifying and ultimately profoundly moving, the nov…
1 year, 4 months ago
Emma - Jane Austen
Episode 3
Emma is one of only six novels that Jane Austen completed, and yet she is among the very greatest of all English writers. How did an obscure spinster…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Great Gatsby
Episode 1
For the first episode of Book In, Rupert and Charlie discuss The Great Gatsby, Scott FitzGerald’s wonderful novel of love, loss and broken dreams. Pu…
1 year, 4 months ago