On the Road with Penguin Classics is the literary podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author Henry Eliot travels to a different location to discuss a great work of literature with a different guest.
In series four, Henry's guests include Monica Ali, Katherine Rundell, Simon Callow, Marina Warner, Caryl Phillips, Anil Seth and Philip Pullman. They discuss the love stories of Jane Austen and James Baldwin, the fantasies of Charles Dickens and Angela Carter, the thrillers of Raymond Chandler and Anthony Burgess, the horrors of Mary Shelley and Shirley Jackson and the poetry of John Donne and William Blake. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

William Blake's poetry with Philip Pullman

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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Giovanni’s Room with Caryl Phillips

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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Donne's poetry with Katherine Rundell

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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle with Ruth Franklin

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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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