podcast
I hosted On the Road with Penguin Classics, ‘the podcast that takes a stroll around the world’s favourite books’, for thirty episodes. In each one I travelled to a different literary location to explore a great book in the company of a remarkable reader.
Episodes
Pride and Prejudice · Monica Ali
William Blake’s poetry · Philip Pullman
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland · Chris Riddell
John Donne’s poetry · Katharine Rundell
Confessions of an English Opium Eater · Will Self
Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales · Marina Warner
Giovanni’s Room · Caryl Phillips
The Haunting of Hill House · Ruth Franklin
Frankenstein · Anil Seth & Fiona Sampson
The Mill on the Floss · Louis de Bernières
Mrs Dalloway · Alexandra Harris
Tristram Shandy · Frank Cottrell Boyce
A Christmas Carol · Simon Callow
The Pilgrim’s Progress · Rachel Joyce
We Have Always Lived in the Castle · Ruth Franklin
The Canterbury Tales · Patience Agbabi
A Clockwork Orange · Jeff Noon & Andrew Biswell
The Woman in White · Olivia Vinall
Nineteen Eighty-Four · Robert Icke
The Lonely Londoners · Susheila Nasta
The poetry of John Keats · Andrew Motion
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie · Alan Taylor
Farewell, My Lovely · Dick Lochte
The Blazing World · Michael Bravo
The Hearing Trumpet · Joanna Moorhead
The Book of Disquiet · Richard Zenith