#35: Murder Must Advertise, Chapters 1-4
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their ongoing discussion of Dorothy Sayer's classic mystery novel, Murder Must Advertise, one of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories.
Topics include: the anxiety and cultural malaise of post-WWI Europe, the liturgy of the mystery story, why Angelina loves Lord Peter Wimsey more than Mr. Darcy, Sayers/Wodehouse comparisons, the in-media-res start of the book, and the nature of the advertising in the book.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the SIRC Institute Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.7 | You are listening to Close Reads. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm David Kern and as always here on Close Reads. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm joined by Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh. |
| 0:19.7 | Angelina and Tim, how's it going? |
| 0:21.9 | It's going good. |
| 0:23.2 | It's going great, David. |
| 0:24.6 | So this... |
| 0:25.5 | David, you sound a little under the weather. |
| 0:28.7 | Yeah, I was going to say, I've got a cold, and I'm, you know, extra nasally this week, |
| 0:34.0 | a little more nasally than normal. |
| 0:36.0 | And so, you know, if I'm sniffling like that, then, you know, you know why. |
| 0:42.6 | Is that a sound effect or is that really good? |
| 0:44.8 | No, that was just me. |
| 0:46.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.6 | No, you were just brought to tears at the sheer awesomeness of Lord Peter and, you know. |
| 0:52.5 | Murder from a bad job. |
| 0:53.4 | You're inacrued, you know, just makes all men cry and all women. So, you know. Murder from a status. You're inacquit. |
| 0:55.5 | It just makes all men cry and all women. |
| 0:58.0 | So, you know, we understand. |
| 0:58.9 | I was going to say you may have been confusing our conversation earlier with your own journals. |
| 1:07.4 | Well played, sir. |
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