The Digested Read podcast

The Digested Read podcast

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The Digested Read podcast episodes

November 26, 2009 Digested read podcast: The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett
John Crace explores his thespian side
6 min
November 26, 2009 Digested classic podcast: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
'How dare you, sir!' Edith Wharton's 1870s portrait of high-class New York mores is taken downtown by John Crace
9 min
November 20, 2009 Digested classic podcast: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
John Crace reminds us that there's no I in socalsm or totaltaransm
10 min
November 18, 2009 The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov
John Crace becomes tragically incoherent
6 min
November 17, 2009 Digested read podcast: The Humbling by Philip Roth
John Crace attempts to believe in a smooth-talking 65-year-old 'lesbo converter', but he can't keep it up
6 min
November 17, 2009 Digested read podcast: Superfreakonomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
John Crace makes some startling discoveries about the economics of sequel-writing
6 min
November 13, 2009 Digested read podcast: Meltdown by Ben Elton
Ben Elton's new novel, set in a world of financial mayhem, suffers a severe crash in the hands of John Crace
6 min
October 23, 2009 Digested classic podcast: Call for the Dead by John Le Carré
John Crace tails George Smiley's first outing as a spy, but whose side is he on?
10 min
October 23, 2009 The Defence of the Realm
John Crace unpicks The Authorized History of MI5 and feels the wool being pulled over his eyes
6 min
October 07, 2009 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
John Crace digests this year's Booker Prize winner: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
4 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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