The Digested Read podcast

The Digested Read podcast

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The Digested Read podcast episodes

April 17, 2009 The digested classic podcast: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
John Crace swims through some fevered modernist memories
7 min
April 17, 2009 Digested classic podcast: Generation X by Douglas Coupland
John Crace gets deep and meaningless
7 min
April 14, 2009 Grow Your Own Drugs by James Wong
John Crace fails to get healed, or high
6 min
April 08, 2009 The digested read podcast: Glover's Mistake by Nick Laird
John Crace is enslaved by his id
6 min
April 03, 2009 The Digested Read podcast: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
John Crace makes a quick investigation of the noir masterpiece
7 min
March 31, 2009 The digested read podcast: God Bless America by Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan swans around America; John Crace chases after him
6 min
March 28, 2009 Siddhartha: Digested Classic
Tantric bliss, Brian Ferryman and lots and lots of "om". John Crace takes up the lotus position and transcends his destiny
9 min
March 24, 2009 The digested read podcast: Stanley I presume by Stanley Johnson
John Crace enters the spiffing world of Boris maximus
6 min
March 14, 2009 The digested classic podcast: The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
John Crace laughs in the face of bourgeois convention and becomes rapidly depraved
8 min
March 10, 2009 The digested read podcast: Strangers by Anita Brookner
John Crace is quickly overcome with melancholy
7 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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