A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin

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🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For the final episode recorded at this year's Port Eliot festival in Cornwall, John and Andy are joined by authors Nina Stibbe and returning guest Simon Garfield to discuss Philip Larkin's second and final novel A Girl In Winter, and Larkin's place in the national psyche. Warning: this episode contains poetry readings, dentistry and a hip-hop remix of This Be The Verse. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 8'00 - A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin *To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops *For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the The When getting my nose in a book cured most things short of school, it was worth ruining my eyes to know I could still keep cool and deal out the old right hook to dirty dogs twice my size
0:41.8	Later with inch thick spec, evil was just my lark.
0:47.0	Me and my cloak and fangs had ripping times in the dark.
0:52.0	The women I clubbed with six. I broke them up like the rings.
0:57.0	Don't read much now. The dude who lets yellow and keeps the
1:05.0	who's yellow and keeps the store
1:08.0	seem far too familiar.
1:10.0	Get stued.
1:12.0	Books are a load of crap.
1:15.0	Thank you, Philip, our motivational speaker for the day.
1:18.0	He was only 12 when he...
1:21.0	So thank you everybody
1:22.5	very much to come welcome to backlisted yes hello and welcome to backlisted the
1:27.1	podcast that gives new life to old books you join us once again at the in the storm
1:32.1	last boot camp for middle-class self-development that is
1:36.4	the Port Elliot festival. Our bodies may be damp, our tent poles may be sagging, but the spirit and imagination is soaring.
1:48.0	I'm John Mitchinson, I'm the publisher of Unbound, the website that crowd funds the books that readers really want to read.
1:55.0	And...
1:56.0	I'm Andy Miller.
1:57.0	I'm the author of the Year of Reading Dangerously.
1:59.0	I have been here for 48 hours now here at Port Elliot.
2:02.0	I have been bitten by more insects in that time.
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