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Eleanor & Alasdair Read That

by Eleanor Morton & Alasdair Beckett-King

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We Read Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask

October 21, 2026 · 36 min

Eleanor and Alasdair enjoy a proper Scottish Halloween. That means turnip carving, guising and a copy of 1993's The Haunted Mask. It's number eleven in the best-selling Goosebumps series, but is it really scary? What's its connection to…
We Read The Water-Babies

September 19, 2026 · 30 min

Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies, made a big splash in 1863. It may have helped end child labour in Britain, but is it actually readable? In this episode, Eleanor and Alasdair encounter a children's classic that's allegorical, didactic…
We Read The Boxcar Children

August 19, 2026 · 38 min

No aspiring orphan should be without a copy of Gertrude Chandler Warner's 1924 classic, The Boxcar Children. Her bafflingly successful mystery adventures were a huge part of ABK's childhood. But what will Eleanor make of these candy-sweet…
We Read Comet in Moominland

July 19, 2026 · 40 min

They're soft, they're white, they're somewhere between cute and creepy — it's Eleanor and Alasdair. And for this episode, we read Tove Jansson's 1946 adventure Comet In Moominland (Kometjakten) translated by Elizabeth Portch. We ask…
We Read Winnie the Pooh

June 19, 2026 · 40 min

Here are Eleanor and Alasdair, coming down the stairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head. That's right, Eleanor has murdered Alasdair. But not before recording this month's episode all about A. A. Milne's 1926 classic Winnie…

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We Read Charlotte's Web

May 19, 2026 · 35 min

Just like women be shopping, E. B. White. And White's 1952 novel Charlotte's Web is a blackly comical tear-jerker about a spider coming to the aid of a pig who doesn't want to be eaten. Are Eleanor and Alasdair fans of spiders? Or are we…
We Read Johnny and the Bomb

April 19, 2026 · 43 min

Eleanor and Alasdair step into the trousers of time, with Terry Pratchett's 1996 novel Johnny and the Bomb. Five inept British teens find themselves in World War Two with bags of time on their hands. Was Johnny and the Bomb "The Bomb"? Or…
We Read The Cat in the Hat & The Tiger Who Came to Tea

March 19, 2026 · 30 min

1957–1968 was a golden age of big cats breaking into kids' houses and smashing up the joint. For this episode, Eleanor & Alasdair read Dr Seuss's The Cat in the Hat and Judith Kerr's The Tiger Who Came to Tea. We aim to decide…
We Read The Wind in the Willows

February 19, 2026 · 37 min

Eleanor and Alasdair are fighting! Eleanor is in love with Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, but for Alasdair... it's complicated. The 1908 classic is a tale of motorcars, misadventure and yearning glances on the riverbank. But is…
We Read The Borrowers

January 19, 2026 · 35 min

She's small. She's ginger. She's very hard to get out of your house. No, not Eleanor Morton. We're talking about Arietty Clock, the tiny teenage protagonist of Mary Norton's 1952 novel The Borrowers. The Borrowers are a diminutive people…
We Read The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Part 2)

December 19, 2025 · 28 min

The stone table cracks and Eleanor & Alasdair return to Narnia. It's time to pass judgement on The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe. Eleanor sings the praises of the dodgy beaver costumes in the 1988 BBC adaptation and Alasdair gets annoyed…
We Read The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Part 1)

December 17, 2025 · 36 min

Always-winter-but-never-Christmas starts earlier every year, doesn't it? Eleanor and Alasdair read C. S. Lewis's furniture-based children's classic The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (1950). And we've split this bumper Yuletide edition of…

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Two red-headed comedians revisit classic kids’ books. Will our childhood treasures stand the test of time? Or will we be forced to make fun of them on a podcast?