Episode 30 and we're back with some period drama. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott was not originally on our top 100 but was chosen by Sarah as a substitute for a novel on our list without a film adaptation. 

We're talking about the 1994 film which stars Winona Ryder and Christian Bale. Will this american classic leave an impression on us? With the new film adaptation coming out at the end of 2019 this is a good time to take a look and learn what this well known story is all about. 

We also talk about the novel we swapped it for on our list 'Life: A Users Manual' and Sarah has discovered another book by the same author that sounds very interesting!

After a couple of weeks away we're back with an extra long episode. Our next novel on screen is 'The Tin Drum' a controversial German film from 1979. 

Critically acclaimed but also highly divisive the film was banned in some parts of the world for is obscenity and portraying underage sexuality. 

Mark & Sarah discuss the plot of the film - trying to make sense of it - this could be another high rating in our Mary Whitehouse scale of morals! Where will this rank our list overall? Does anything shock us any more?

Also a few news updates - why has the BBC War of The Worlds still not been shown yet?

Hear all about it! Scoop was a 1938 novel by Evelyn Waugh. It's a parody of the writers time as a war correspondent for the Daily Mail.

We watch the 1987 ITV drama adaptation starring Michael Maloney in the starring role of William Boot. Garanteed no one else has ever produced a podcast about this obscure piece of TV, Mark & Sarah discuss the story and how this book has been brought to the small screen. 

Blessed be the fruit! We've reached episode 27 on our book adaptations list. Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel from 1985 was adapted as a TV series on Hulu in 2017.

The series has been hugely popular and is due to start it's third series next month.

We watch and discuss the whole of series 1, looking at the world in which this series takes place and the main characters we follow. 

Sarah has read the book and tells us what is and isn't the same in this adaptation. 

Warning! This episode contains spoilers for the whole of the first series! If you've not seen it yet, catch up and come back or listen to this as a beginners guide to the book and TV show.

Sarah also eats crisps during some of the chat which you may be able to hear.

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie won the booker prize in 1981 and is considered an all time great novel. 

We're watching the 2012 film adaptation and discuss it's mix of realism, magic and how the book has been translated to the screen. 

Also a few news updates and our usual ratings! 

Lucky Jim is a 1957 film starring Ian Carmichael and based on the 1954 novel by Kingsley Amis.

Mark and Sarah give their verdict on this film and if this book  deserves it's place on the list of 100 greatest novels. We also discuss whether comedy can go out of date. 

France during World War II is the setting for our latest novel adaptation. Suite Française is a 2015 film starring Michelle Williams.

The book itself has an interesting history, being written during the war but only published in 2004. 

Neither of us had heard of this one until we watched it. How will it score?

A few of the books on our list don't have film or tv adaptations! We look at one of these books, Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec. 

Our challenge is to watch the 100 greatest films, so for any books that don't have an adaptation we'll be swapping it with another from a different list. Sarah chooses our first replacement.....

If you have any ideas for filmss we should watch email us at [email protected]

We're off to the green hills of Ireland for this episode on the 16 June 1904 to be exact. James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses depicts an ordinary day in the life of Leopold Bloom as he goes about his day in Dublin. The novel has been described as one of the most important works of modernist literature. 

Will this make a good film adaptation? Mark and Sarah watch the 2003 Irish made film version of the book 'Bloom' and discuss how this work translates to the screen.

This could be a tough one to score and not just because Mark has a swollen eye!

We're getting on our raft and heading down the Mississippi river for our latest episode! The next novel on the list is 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' written by Mark Twain and first published in 1885.

This is a very well known american classic and there are lots of film adaptations. The film we're discussing is the 1993 Disney produced version 'The Adventures of Huck Finn'. The film stars a young Elijah Wood in the title role.