William Blake’s poetry and prose. We visit Sir Philip at home to discuss the poet who has ‘inspired and intoxicated’ him for the last sixty years. In Philip’s book-lined sitting room we discuss Blake’s most loved works: his Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Auguries of Innocence.

Pullman has written frequently about Blake and previously served as President of the William Blake Society.

Blake’s Selected Poems (Penguin Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33866/selected-poems-blake-by-william-blake-ed-professor-g-e-bentley-series-editor--christopher-ricks/9780140424461

https://apple.co/48HX8yM

Naxos Audiobooks edition of Blake’s poetry, read by Robert Glenister, Michael Maloney and Stephen Critchlow

https://naxosaudiobooks.com/blake-william-selections/

https://apple.co/3tRg676

Sir Philip Pullman

https://www.philip-pullman.com/

Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman

https://www.davidficklingbooks.com/shop/ItemDetails.php?pubID=190

https://apple.co/4aVkHpC

Audiobook edition of Daemon Voices

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309349/daemon-voices-by-pullman-philip/9780241372906

https://apple.co/47NE6Gl

The Blake Society

https://blakesociety.org/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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James Baldwin in Paris. On the rain-soaked boulevards, the novelist Caryl Phillips discusses Baldwin's exquisite same-sex love story, drinking in the Cafe de Flore and exploring Saint Germain des Prés.

Phillips, who knew James Baldwin, wrote the introduction to the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Giovanni’s Room and an unfilmed screenplay of the novel for Merchant Ivory productions.

2024 marks 100 years since Baldwin was born

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57368/giovannis-room-by-james-baldwin-introduction-by-caryl-phillips/9780141186351

https://apple.co/3Hnscrz

Penguin Audio edition of Giovanni’s Room – available June 6th 2024

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56260/giovannis-room-by-baldwin-james/9781802067224

Calliope Author Readings – James Baldwin

http://calliopeauthorreadings.com/james-baldwin/

https://apple.co/4aTk0go

Caryl Phillips

https://www.carylphillips.com/

The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/130570/the-european-tribe-by-caryl-phillips/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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John Donne’s poetry and prose in London. The scholar and children’s author Katherine Rundell traces the life and paradoxical career of John Donne from the street where he was born, through the palaces and colleges where he worked to the cathedral where he preached and now lies buried.

In 2022 Rundell won the Baillie-Gifford Prize for her biography of Donne, Super-Infinite.

Donne's prose masterpiece Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions was published 400 years ago in January 1624.

Donne’s Selected Poems (Penguin Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33860/selected-poems-donne-by-john-donne-ed-professor-ilona-bell-series-editor--christopher-ricks/9780140424409

https://apple.co/48S5406

Donne’s Selected Prose (Penguin Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34100/selected-prose-by-donne-john/9780141396712

https://apple.co/47NE1m1

Naxos audiobook edition of Donne’s poetry, read by Geoffrey Whitehead and Will Keen

https://naxosaudiobooks.com/john-donne-selections/

https://apple.co/3vHDpk8

Katherine Rundell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Rundell

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/katherine-rundell/

Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell (Faber)

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571345922-super-infinite/

https://apple.co/47DGDCx

Audiobook edition of Super-Infinite

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571378258-super-infinite/

https://apple.co/3TSyR4I

Lincoln’s Inn

https://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/

St Dunstan in the West

https://www.stdunstaninthewest.org/

St Paul’s Cathedral

https://www.stpauls.co.uk/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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Shirley Jackson in North Bennington, Vermont. Award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin visits the small village of North Bennington, where Jackson lived for twenty years. We stand in the square where Jackson imagined 'The Lottery' and conjure the ghost of Merricat Blackwood as she collects her sinister groceries in Jackson’s last and greatest novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133431/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191454

Blackstone Publishing audiobook edition of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, read by Bernadette Dunne

https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle?sp=15364

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133428/the-lottery-and-other-stories-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191430

Penguin Audio edition of The Lottery and Other Stories, read by Francine Brody

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133428/the-lottery-and-other-stories-by-jackson-shirley/9780141994871

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/312885/life-among-the-savages-by-jackson-shirley/9780241387801

Penguin Audio edition of Life Among the Savages, read by Kate Handford

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/312885/life-among-the-savages-by-jackson-shirley/9780141994901

Ruth Franklin

https://ruthfranklin.substack.com/

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

https://wwnorton.com/books/Shirley-Jackson-A-Rather-Haunted-Life/

The Moonscones Micro-Bakery

http://www.moonscones.com/

Powers Market

https://powersmarket.com/

The John G McCullough Free Library

https://mcculloughlibrary.org/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. In Dame Marina Warner's magical home in North London, the historian and mythographer discusses Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose and their English translation by Angela Carter, as well as Carter’s own Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Our wide-ranging conversation covers Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard and Little Red Riding Hood, as well as many other fairy tales.

The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Angela Carter (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57621/the-fairy-tales-of-charles-perrault-by-angela-carter-intro--jack-zipes/9780141189956

Dame Marina Warner

https://www.marinawarner.com/

Once Upon a Time by Marina Warner

https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/once-upon-a-time-9780198779858

https://apple.co/3TGDZJb

From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/358658/from-the-beast-to-the-blonde-by-marina-warner/9781409028635

https://apple.co/48xHQfy

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/359636/the-bloody-chamber-and-other-stories-by-angela-carter/9780099588115

https://apple.co/3H1huqG

Audible edition of The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, read by Richard Armitage and Emilia Fox

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Bloody-Chamber-Audiobook/B07B5C8MMK

https://apple.co/3tMYcSO

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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Charles Dickens in London. For this festive Christmas Special, the actor and author Simon Callow joins Henry to summon the ghost of Ebeneezer Scrooge and follow him around the City of London, starting at Cornhill, taking in Leadenhall Market and meeting all three Spirits of Christmas. A Christmas Carol, Dickens’s best loved novel, was published on 19 December 1843, 180 years ago this year.

Penguin Classics edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34585/a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-writings-by-charles-dickens-intro-michael-slater/9780140439052

https://apple.co/3Te9UQQ

Penguin Audio edition of A Christmas Carol, read by Theo Ogundipe

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34585/a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-writings-by-dickens-charles/9780241455326

https://apple.co/46OVnhC

Simon Callow

https://simoncallow.com/

Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow

https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/charles-dickens-and-the-great-theatre-of-the-world-simon-callow

Simon’s solo version of A Christmas Carol (BBC)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001kwg

The Counting House

https://www.the-counting-house.com/

The Royal Exchange

https://www.theroyalexchange.co.uk/

The George and Vulture

https://george-and-vulture.co.uk/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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Anthony Burgess in East Sussex. On the 30th anniversary of Burgess’s death, the science fiction author Jeff Noon and the biographer Andrew Biswell travel East Sussex with Henry, visiting the rented flat where Burgess began writing A Clockwork Orange, O my brothers, and the quiet village where he finished it, taking in a pub, a prison, ultra violence, nadsat, brainwashing and Beethoven.

Penguin Classics ‘Restored Edition’ of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, edited by Andrew Biswell

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/182137/a-clockwork-orange-by-burgess-anthony/9780141197531

https://apple.co/41d2sHC

Penguin Audio edition of A Clockwork Orange, read by Tom Hollander

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/384903/a-clockwork-orange-by-anthony-burgess/9781407058542

https://apple.co/3Te9HNy

Jeff Noon

http://jeffnoon.weebly.com/

Vurt by Jeff Noon (30th anniversary edition)

https://angryrobotbooks.com/books/vurt/

Andrew Biswell

https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-andrew-biswell

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

https://www.anthonyburgess.org/

The Real Life of Anthony Burgess by Andrew Biswell

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/andrew-biswell/the-real-life-of-anthony-burgess/9780330481717

Christopher Hawtree

http://www.christopherhawtree.com/

The Neptune Inn

https://theneptunelivemusicbar.co.uk/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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Raymond Chandler in Santa Monica. As well as The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, we discuss Farewell, My Lovely, Chandler’s favourite of his own novels, as we walk the noir streets of ‘Bay City’ – or Santa Monica in Southern California – retracing Philip Marlowe's footsteps from City Hall to Santa Monica Pier, and chatting about Dick's hard-boiled and hilarious Chandler tribute, Sleeping Dog.

Penguin Classics omnibus edition of The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely and The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57024/the-big-sleep-and-other-novels-by-raymond-chandler/9780141182612

https://apple.co/3uH9E2J

Penguin Audio edition of Farewell, My Lovely, read by Scott Brick

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/11358/farewell-my-lovely-by-chandler-raymond/9780241989418

https://apple.co/3NatWrM

Dick Lochte

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/l/dick-lochte/

Penguin Crime Classics edition of Sleeping Dog by Dick Lochte

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/458455/sleeping-dog-by-lochte-dick/9780241656921

https://apple.co/3sV2583

Penguin Audio edition of Sleeping Dog, read by Robert G. Slade and Daniela Vanasco

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/458455/sleeping-dog-by-lochte-dick/9780241671726

https://apple.co/47B39g9

Santa Monica City Hall

https://www.santamonica.gov/places/city-facilities/santa-monica-city-hall

The Georgian

https://www.thegeorgian.com/

Santa Monica Pier

https://www.santamonicapier.org/

Raymond Chandler Mystery Map of Los Angeles

https://apps.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/litmaps/item/4934?exhibit=130&page=1028

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

Producer – Megan Tan: https://www.megantan.com/

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Mary Shelley in Bath. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin finished writing Frankenstein while lodging in Bath and attending lectures on electricity and galvanism. We visit the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and the recently opened Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein with the neuroscientist Anil Seth (author of Being You) and the poet and biographer Fiona Sampson (In Search of Mary Shelley), discussing Romantic literature, early nineteenth-century science and the mystery of consciousness.

Penguin Classics edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55587/frankenstein-by-mary-shelley-ed-maurice-hindle/9780141439471

https://apple.co/47HB0DU

Penguin audiobook edition of Frankenstein, read by Peter Noble and Colin Salmon

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55587/frankenstein-by-shelley-mary/9780241422625

https://apple.co/3us6tvv

Anil Seth

https://www.anilseth.com/

Being You by Anil Seth (Faber)

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571337729-being-you/

https://apple.co/40QlhQQ

Audiobook: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571360550-being-you/

https://apple.co/46t21tQ

Fiona Sampson

https://twitter.com/FionaRSampson

In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson (Profile)

https://profilebooks.com/work/in-search-of-mary-shelley-the-girl-who-wrote-frankenstein/

https://apple.co/49T6f0A

Audiobook: https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781528851244

https://apple.co/46t274G

Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

https://www.brlsi.org/

Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein

https://www.houseoffrankenstein.com/

St Mary’s Churchyard

https://www.stmaryschurchyard.com/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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Jane Austen in Chawton. The novelist Monica Ali joins Henry to visit Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen wrote all of her novels – as well as nearby Chawton House, once owned by Austen’s brother Edward and now home to the Centre for the Study of Early Women’s Writing.

Penguin Classics edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55905/pride-and-prejudice-by-austen-jane/9780141439518

https://apple.co/3MNDOaq

Penguin Audio edition of Pride and Prejudice, read by Indira Varma

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55905/pride-and-prejudice-by-austen-jane/9780241455265

https://apple.co/3sFgFQY

Monica Ali

https://www.monicaali.com/

Love Marriage by Monica Ali

https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/monica-ali/love-marriage/9780349015507/

https://apple.co/3usPBVi

Penguin audiobook edition of Love Marriage, read by Ayesha Dharker

https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/monica-ali/love-marriage/9781405550291/

https://apple.co/47dHaMc

Jane Austen’s House

https://janeaustens.house/

Chawton House

https://chawtonhouse.org/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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