Lewis Carroll in Oxford. The illustrator and political cartoonist Chris Riddell wanders the streams and streets of Oxford with Henry, visiting the locations that inspired Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. They meet Sophie Hiscock at the Story Museum and visit Christ Church College.

Penguin Classics editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60348/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland-and-through-the-looking-glass/9780141439761.html

https://apple.co/34adQe5

Penguin audiobook of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, read by Katie Leung

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1060348/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland-and-through-the-looking-glass/9780241442425.html

https://apple.co/3r1h1gQ

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Chris Riddell

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lewis-carroll/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/9781529002461

Through the Looking-Glass, illustrated by Chris Riddell

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lewis-carroll/through-the-lookingglass-and-what-alice-found-there/9781529007503

The Hunting of the Snark, illustrated by Chris Riddell

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/chris-riddell/the-hunting-of-the-snark/9781529006957

Chris Riddell

https://chrisriddellblog.tumblr.com/

https://twitter.com/chrisriddell50

The Story Museum

https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/

Alice’s Shop

https://aliceinwonderlandshop.com/

Christ Church College

https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Yayoi Kusama

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/181654/lewis-carroll-s-alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland--with-artwork-b/9780141197302.html

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Muriel Spark in Edinburgh. The journalist Alan Taylor joins the Brodie set on a walk around Edinburgh with Henry. They discuss The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, visiting the site of James Gillespie’s High School (Spark’s alma mater and the model for Marcia Blaine school in the novel), as well as her childhood home on Bruntsfield Place and tracing the route taken by Miss Brodie and her girls across the Meadows and through the Grassmarket, Lawnmarket and the High Street.

Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56927/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie/9780141181424.html

Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark by Alan Taylor

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/appointment-in-arezzo-2/

Alan Taylor

https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/contributors/alan-taylor/

Muriel Spark Centenary Editions (Polygon)

https://birlinn.co.uk/muriel-spark/

James Gillespie’s High School

https://www.jamesgillespies.co.uk/

Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Spark

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781847771025

Canongate audiobook of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, read by Miriam Margolyes

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Prime-of-Miss-Jean-Brodie-Audiobook/B006K4FPGE

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John Keats in Hampstead. The poet and biographer Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, strolls around the village of Hampstead with Henry. They discuss the short life and luscious poetry of John Keats, walking on the Heath, visiting Leigh Hunt’s house in the Vale of Health and finishing at Wentworth Place (now Keats House), where they meet its principal curator, Rob Shakespeare.

Penguin Classics editions of Keats:

Selected Poems

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33867/selected-poems--keats/9780140424478.html

https://apple.co/3IE3ZMC

Complete Poems

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33699/the-complete-poems/9780140422108.html

https://apple.co/3H4pUMy

Selected Letters

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/177598/selected-letters/9780141192796.html

https://apple.co/3FUzvUx

So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (introduced by Jane Campion)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60470/so-bright-and-delicate--love-letters-and-poems-of-john-keats-to-/9780141442471.html

https://apple.co/33kffP9

Andrew Motion

https://poets.org/poet/andrew-motion

Keats by Andrew Motion

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571346660-keats/

The Invention of Dr Cake by Andrew Motion

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571216321-the-invention-of-dr-cake/

Keats House

https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/attractions-museums-entertainment/keats-house

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Margaret Cavendish beyond the North Pole. The polar researcher Dr Michael Bravo Joins Henry in Cambridge to discuss The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish, the maverick Duchess of Newcastle. Blending fantasy, philosophy and seventeenth-century science, they visit the Polar Museum, the Whipple Museum and Cambridge University Library. They meet Dr Joshua Nall, an expert on the history of science, and Dr Emily Dourish, deputy keeper of rare books.

Penguin Classics editions of The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34205/the-blazing-world-and-other-writings/9780140433722.html

https://apple.co/3IAMNY5

Penguin audiobook of The Blazing World, read by Abigail Thaw

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34205/the-blazing-world-and-other-writings/9780141993393.html

https://apple.co/3u6gpIK

Michael Bravo

https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/bravo/

North Pole by Michael Bravo

http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781789140088

The Polar Museum

https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/

The Whipple Museum

https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/

The Cambridge University Library Rare Books Department

https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/rare-books

Joshua Nall

https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/nall

Emily Dourish

https://twitter.com/emilydourish?lang=en

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James Joyce in Dublin. Professor Anne Fogarty joins Henry in Dublin to recreate a day in the life of Leopold Bloom. They discuss Ulysses by James Joyce and visit the Martello Tower where the novel opens, Eccles Street, Davy Byrnes and the National Library. They meet Darina Gallagher, director of the James Joyce Centre, who coordinates the annual Bloomsday celebrations.

2 February 2022 is the 100th anniversary of the first book publication of Ulysses.

Penguin Modern Classics editions of Ulysses by George Orwell

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57043/ulysses/9780141182803.html

https://apple.co/3KEWdDP

Penguin audiobook of Ulysses, read by Patrick Gibson

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1057043/ulysses/9780241422601.html

https://apple.co/3H81bqI

Anne Fogarty

https://people.ucd.ie/anne.fogarty

The James Joyce Centre

https://jamesjoyce.ie/

The James Joyce Tower & Museum

https://joycetower.ie/

Davy Byrnes

https://davybyrnes.com/

Sweny’s Pharmacy

https://www.sweny.ie/

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George Orwell in Airstrip One. The writer and director Robert Icke joins Henry to explore the real-world locations in London that inspired George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Together they tour the Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Love and Room 101. Robert co-adapted and co-directed the award-winning 2013 stage adaptation 1984, which has played on the West End and Broadway and toured the UK, the USA and Australia.

Penguin Modern Classics editions of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57013/nineteen-eighty-four/9780141187761.html

https://apple.co/32u5uNJ

Penguin audiobook of Nineteen Eighty-Four, read by Peter Capaldi

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1057013/nineteen-eighty-four/9780141989969.html

https://apple.co/3fSibVQ

Robert Icke

https://roberticke.com/

Robert Icke’s production of 1984

https://headlong.co.uk/productions/1984/

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/1984-9781350262713/

UCL Senate House

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/libraries-and-study-spaces/ucl-senate-house-hub

BBC Broadcasting House

https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/buildings/broadcasting-house/

Untitled (Room 101) by Rachel Whiteread

http://www.modusoperandi-art.com/projects/bbc_untitled_room_101/

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George Eliot in Nuneaton. The novelist Louis de Bernières explores the landscape around Nuneaton in Warwickshire, the birthplace of Mary Ann Evans, or George Eliot. They discuss The Mill on the Floss, visiting the Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery and the Griff House Beefeater, which was Eliot's childhood home and the inspiration for Dorlcote Mill in the novel. They also meet Adam Weaver, land agent of the Arbury Estate, the same position held by Eliot’s father.

Penguin Classics edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60341/the-mill-on-the-floss/9780141439624.html

Audiobook: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/the-mill-on-the-floss/id1528313409?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=audio-books_the_mill_on_the_floss&ls=1

Ebook: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-mill-on-the-floss/id374227455?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=books_the_mill_on_the_floss&ls=1 

Louis de Bernières

https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1017789/louis-de-bernieres.html

Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery

https://www.nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk/info/20038/museum_and_art_gallery/160/museum_and_art_gallery

Griff House Beefeater

https://www.beefeater.co.uk/en-gb/locations/warwickshire/griff-house

The Arbury Estate

https://arburyestate.co.uk/

George Eliot walking tour of Nuneaton

http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/george-eliot/george-eliot-walking-tour.shtml

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Sam Selvon in Bayswater. The author and editor Susheila Nasta, Selvon’s literary executor, coasts a lime around the Water with Henry. They discuss The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, visiting Bayswater, Hyde Park and Piccadilly Circus, and discussing the experience of Caribbean migrants in 1950s London. They meet Howard Jeffery, Chairman of the Pepperpot Centre, a community centre for older Caribbean residents in west London.

Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57514/the-lonely-londoners/9780141188416.html

Ebook: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-lonely-londoners/id913000990?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=books_the_lonely_londoners&ls=1

Susheila Nasta

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/nastas.html

https://twitter.com/susheila_nasta

Wasafiri

https://www.wasafiri.org/

The Pepperpot Centre

https://www.pepperpotcentre.org.uk/

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Laurence Sterne in Coxwold. The screenwriter and children’s author Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the screenplay for A Cock and Bull Story (the 2005 film adaptation of Tristram Shandy), digresses around the little village of Coxwold in North Yorkshire with Henry. They discuss Laurence Sterne’s novel and veer off on various tangents as they meander from St Michael’s Church, where Sterne was perpetual curate, to Shandy Hall, where he wrote most of Tristram Shandy. They meet the curator, Patrick Wildgust, who guides them through the eccentric building.

Penguin Classics edition of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60349/the-life-and-opinions-of-tristram-shandy--gentleman/9780141439778.html

Audiobook: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/tristram-shandy-abridged/id1440419496?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=audio-books_tristram_shandy_%28abridged%29&ls=1

Ebook: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-life-and-opinions-of-tristram-shandy-gentleman/id374433539?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=books_the_life_and_opinions_of_tristram&ls=1

Frank Cottrell Boyce

https://twitter.com/frankcottrell_b

A Cock and Bull Story, dir. Michael Winterbottom

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423409/

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/frank-cottrellboyce/cosmic/9781529008777

Shandy Hall & The Laurence Sterne Trust

https://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/

St Michael’s Church

https://www.coxwoldvillage.org/index.php/coxwold-church-north-yorkshire-st-michael-and-all-angels

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