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The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch (01:11:30)
Ian Patterson, author of Books: A Manifesto , returns to Backlisted for a joyful discussion of Iris Murdoch and her sixteenth novel The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974), the winner of the Whitbr...
Jake Thackray: The Unsung Writer by Paul Thompson (01:04:01)
Biographer and singer-songwriter Paul Thompson joins us for a new episode of Backlisted devoted to the life and work of Jake Thackray, the so-called 'Yorkshire chansonnier' who died in 2002. Thackray ...
Asterix and the Roman Agent by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (01:12:14)
Merry Christmas! Join Andy and Una, plus authors Louie Stowell and Robert Shearman, for a post-solstice celebration of Asterix and the Roman Agent (1972) by René Goscinny (words) and Albert Uderzo (p...
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild - rerun (01:34:32)
A timely revisit of our 2022 Christmas special which celebrates Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild, a classic of children’s literature and the childhood favourite of our producer, Nicky Birch. We are jo...
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon (01:22:11)
Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930), the astounding first novel by Olaf Stapledon. The book is one o...
Transit and the Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk (01:18:38)
Something a little different this week. Andy, Una and Nicky discuss the novel Transit by Rachel Cusk, the second part of her award-winning Outline trilogy. Outline, the first volume was published in 2...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (01:13:49)
For this year's Halloween episode, we take a windswept walk across the Yorkshire moors with Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights — not as a tale of doomed romance, but as a novel steeped in gothic horror,...
Imogen by Jilly Cooper - Revisit (01:12:20)
To honour the life of Jilly Cooper, we are replaying this joyous episode from 2019 with a new introduction.
Joining Andy and John in this episode are Daisy Buchanan, writer, feminist, host of the bri...
All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook part 2 (01:13:59)
Writer Jason Hazeley joins Andy, Una and Nicky for a celebratory investigation - or investigative celebration - of All the Devils Are Here, the ungovernable literary brainchild of the late David Seabr...
The Eye Of the Beholder by Marc Behm (01:09:46)
Emmy Award-winning writer David Quantick (Veep, The Thick of It) joins Andy and Una for a discussion of Marc Behm's surreal thriller The Eye of the Beholder (1980). David last appeared on Backlisted a...
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin (01:11:33)
Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan (1971), the second Earthsea novel, is the subject of this episode. Joining Una and Andy is writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce, current Children’s Laureate. We look at h...
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington (01:17:08)
Leonora Carrington's charming and surreal novel The Hearing Trumpet (1976, probably) is the subject of this episode. Joining Una, Andy and Nicky is author and lecturer Dr Paul March-Russell, who offer...
A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney (01:15:32)
Dave Haslam and Melanie Williams join us to discuss A Taste of Honey (1958), Shelagh Delaney's first play, written and produced when the author was not yet 20 years old. To describe this as an expert ...
The Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore (01:07:45)
The writer Alan Moore is the subject of this long-awaited episode. Joining Andy and Una is the author and dramatist Simon Guerrier, who has chosen The Ballad of Halo Jones, Moore's collaboration with ...
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor (01:12:16)
Angel (1957) by the English writer Elizabeth Taylor, is the subject of this special episode - and, as you'll hear, the next episode of Locklisted too.* Joining Andy and Una for a hotly disputed umptee...
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner (01:14:13)
Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them (1948) is the subject of this episode, almost ten years since Backlisted covered the same author's classic debut Lolly Willowes (1926). Joining Andy,...
Summer books 2025 (01:08:31)
Books we think you might enjoy on a plane, by the pool or in the park. Andy, Nicky and our old friend Una McCormack discuss the following fantastic beach reads - Birch reads? - and a novel from Backli...
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend (01:13:50)
The wonderful Nina Stibbe, award-winning novelist and diarist, joins us for a discussion of Sue Townsend's classic comic creation. When it was first published in 1982, the confidential journal of Leic...
The Image of Her by Simone de Beauvoir (01:09:44)
To discuss The Image of Her (1966) by Simone de Beauvoir we are joined by writer and translator Lauren Elkin, whose previous books include Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, Scaffolding and Art Monsters: ...
Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en (01:04:43)
Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time, joins John and Andy for a tour of Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, the sixteenth-century fable widely regarded as one of the most impor...
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro (01:10:26)
“A masterpiece I don’t fully understand—and don’t need to.” This week’s book is The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, a bold, baffling, and darkly funny novel that has confounded and enchanted readers sin...
What Remains by Hannah Arendt (01:15:27)
Elif Shafak and Lyndsey Stonebridge join John and Andy for a discussion of the life and work of Hannah Arendt, the historian and philosopher whose books include The Human Condition, The Origins of Tot...
A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford (01:12:42)
Sybille Bedford's A Compass Error (1968) is a classic coming-of-age novel, a love story, a family saga and a study in psychological suspense rolled into one. Joining us to discuss it are the novelist ...
A Life by Elia Kazan (01:12:10)
We explore Elia Kazan's memoir A Life (1988) with veteran biographer and critic John Lahr, author of Notes on a Cowardly Lion, Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton and Tennessee Williams: Ma...
Biography and Memoir (01:13:20)
A Backlisted Special dedicated to biographies and memoirs, with books by Nancy Mitford, Roger Lewis, Elizabeth Jane Howard, P.D. James and Jean Rhys.
John Mitchinson talks to the writer and friend o...
