#38: Murder Must Advertise, Chapters 13-16
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their ongoing discussion of Dorothy Sayers' classic mystery novel, Murder Must Advertise, one of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories.
Topics include: Comparisons between this book, Netflix's The Crown, and BBC's Downton Abbey; class issues between characters; the lack of appeal in the evil in the book; the slow burn tensions; and how Greek (the language) can help us pronounce "Death Bredon."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the SIRC Institute Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.4 | You are listening to Close Reads, and I'm David Kern here with Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh. |
| 0:16.6 | Angelina and Tim, how's it going? |
| 0:18.4 | Hey, it's going good. |
| 0:19.3 | Great, great. |
| 0:20.9 | So I'm actually sitting next to Angelina. |
| 0:23.4 | She's in my makeshift closet studio right now. |
| 0:26.7 | Your daughter had a sleepover nearby. |
| 0:28.6 | She did. |
| 0:29.3 | She had a sliver 40, so here I am. |
| 0:31.1 | Nice. |
| 0:31.5 | So Angelina is in the office, in the studio. |
| 0:34.4 | We're going to go a studio. |
| 0:36.1 | This is totally a studio. |
| 0:37.4 | Okay. in the studio. We're going to go a studio. This is totally a studio. It has that very... |
| 0:38.3 | It's not an office? No, this is... I feel like I'm in PBS. Like, we're just about to be like, |
| 0:42.8 | all things considered. Wait, that might be trademark. Edit that out. |
| 0:47.1 | Yeah, I don't think you finished the word consider. Uh, Angelina, is this a little bit jarring for you? You can see David. |
| 0:54.4 | This is so unnerving. |
| 0:55.8 | I mean, at home, I just imagine him, like, raising one eyebrow at me or giving me that David smirk. |
| 1:00.5 | But now I have to see it. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm like face to face with all this sarcasm. |
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