1922: Reader's Digest

Arts & Ideas

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4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Reader’s Digest magazine is celebrating its centenary this year. In the first of a series of features looking back at cultural milestones in 1922 – the year the BBC was founded – New Generation Thinker Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the history of the Reader’s Digest talking to Professor Sarah Churchwell and Dr Victoria Bazin.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod You can find a playlist about books, art and philosophy from 1922 in a collection called Modernism on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07p3nxh

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0:00.0	Can I just say?
0:01.5	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:04.0	It's such a wonderful listen.
0:05.6	So nice.
0:06.5	There are loads more like it on BBC sounds.
0:08.8	Different paces, different heights.
0:10.6	The roof is buckling.
0:11.9	Where you can also listen to live sports commentary.
0:14.2	It's right foot goes for goal.
0:16.7	And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.
0:21.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
0:25.2	And she's had to live with that.
0:26.8	So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.
0:29.7	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:35.8	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:39.5	Hello, I'm Eleanor Rosamond Barrowclough, and as part of a series exploring other
0:43.6	significant cultural events that took place in the year that the BBC was founded, this
0:48.4	episode of the Arts and Ideas Podcast looks at the first edition of Reader's Digest, published
0:53.7	in February 1922.
1:02.1	What's your dog and be wise? What kind of husband are you? The future of poison gas.
1:09.3	Love, luxury or necessity.
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