The Digested Read podcast

The Digested Read podcast

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The Digested Read podcast episodes

December 23, 2013 Bridget Jones: today's heroine or yesterday's woman? – books podcast
John Crace digests Helen Fielding's third Bridget Jones novel, Mad about the Boy, into just 600 words. Lisa Allardice and Rosie Swash discuss how well Bridget has aged
18 min
February 04, 2010 The digested read podcast: The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
John Crace has a quick dip into the Booker prize-winning novel
11 min
February 04, 2010 Must You Go? by Antonia Fraser
John Crace looks at the author's memories of life with Harold Pinter, with the pauses taken out
7 min
January 14, 2010 The digested classic podcast: The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
John Crace makes a quick study of a depraved academic
8 min
January 13, 2010 Digested classic podcast: Candleford Green by Flora Thompson
John Crace makes a Sunday night feelgood costume drama
9 min
January 13, 2010 The digested read podcast: You Need The digested read podcast: This Book to Get What You Want by Mark Palmer and Scott Solder
John Crace helps himself
6 min
January 12, 2010 The digested read podcast: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The unbearable lightness of trying to be Milan Kundera gets to John Crace as he swallows his classic text
11 min
January 12, 2010 The digested read podcast: Driven to Distraction by Clarkson
John Crace takes journalism's monster truck for a spin and writes him off
6 min
December 03, 2009 Digested classic podcast: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
John Crace experiments wi skaggie an aw tha'
11 min
December 01, 2009 Digested read podcast: Delia's Happy Christmas by Delia Smith
John Crace reheats some leftover recipes
6 min

About The Digested Read podcast

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A podcast version of John Crace's wickedly satirical Guardian column, lampooning the literary style of leading authors by summarising their books in five minutes

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