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  • William Blake's poetry with Philip Pullman

    February 1, 2024 · 56 min

    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…

  • Giovanni’s Room with Caryl Phillips

    January 25, 2024 · 1 hr 11 min

    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…

  • John Donne's poetry with Katherine Rundell

    January 18, 2024 · 1 hr 20 min

    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…

  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle with Ruth Franklin

    January 11, 2024 · 1 hr 16 min

    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…

  • Angela Carter's Fairy Tales with Marina Warner

    January 4, 2024 · 1 hr 13 min

    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…

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  • A Christmas Carol with Simon Callow – Christmas Special 2023

    December 21, 2023 · 1 hr 13 min

    Charles Dickens in London. For this festive Christmas Special, the actor and author Simon Callow joins Henry to summon the ghost of Ebeneezer Scrooge and follow him around the City of London, starting at Cornhill, taking in Leadenhall…

  • A Clockwork Orange with Jeff Noon and Andrew Biswell

    December 14, 2023 · 1 hr 17 min

    Anthony Burgess in East Sussex. On the 30th anniversary of Burgess’s death, the science fiction author Jeff Noon and the biographer Andrew Biswell travel East Sussex with Henry, visiting the rented flat where Burgess began writing A…

  • Farewell, My Lovely with Dick Lochte

    December 7, 2023 · 1 hr 4 min

    Raymond Chandler in Santa Monica. As well as The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, we discuss Farewell, My Lovely, Chandler’s favourite of his own novels, as we walk the noir streets of ‘Bay City’ – or Santa Monica in Southern California…

  • Frankenstein with Anil Seth and Fiona Sampson

    November 30, 2023 · 1 hr 14 min

    Mary Shelley in Bath. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin finished writing Frankenstein while lodging in Bath and attending lectures on electricity and galvanism. We visit the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and the recently opened…

  • Pride and Prejudice with Monica Ali

    November 23, 2023 · 1 hr 15 min

    Jane Austen in Chawton. The novelist Monica Ali joins Henry to visit Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen wrote all of her novels – as well as nearby Chawton House, once owned by Austen’s brother Edward and now home to…

  • The Haunting of Hill House with Ruth Franklin – Halloween Special 2023

    October 31, 2023 · 46 min

    Shirley Jackson in Bennington, Vermont. For this spooky Halloween special, award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin joins Henry to haunt the eery corridors of the derelict Everett Mansion, the house that may well have inspired the greatest…

  • Season 4 Trailer

    October 26, 2023 · 2 min

    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…

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On the Road with Penguin Classics is a podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author and editor Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of a remarkable reader. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.