A Tale of Two Cities: Book 1, Chapters 1-6

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Over the years, many of you have asked us to discuss a Dickens novel and it’s finally time! Over the next several episodes we are going to dig into A Tale of Two Cities. But fair warning: as we get into the book we do spend some time explaining why we’re not necessarily Dickens enthusiasts, before getting into what really works well. (Don’t worry, we won’t dwell further on the things we don’t love, but it would be strange to not address it given our collective reputation on this count). Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:03.3	I'm Heidi White.
0:04.8	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:06.3	And you are listening to Close Reads, the podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Charles Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities.
0:14.4	And in particular, we are going to be discussing the first book, book one, book the first, also known as recalled to life, also known as the first,
0:22.6	what, six chapters. So that's what we're going to talk about today. We'll talk about Dickens in
0:27.7	general, I'm sure. I don't know, maybe we'll get into some French Revolution, maybe some history.
0:31.7	I don't know. We're going to see where this takes us. It's, you know, it's closer reads.
0:35.0	It can be wandering and wild conversations sometimes.
0:39.2	I don't know if that's really a great description of it, but the wandering part is...
0:41.2	It's the best of podcasts, the worst of podcasts.
0:45.4	That's right.
0:46.0	Depends on who you ask and which time they listen.
0:48.3	Yeah.
0:48.6	Not all those who wander are lost, right?
0:51.4	That's right.
0:52.1	Wrong allusion.
0:54.8	But it wasn't keeping with Dickens in that sense.
0:58.5	So we are here to discuss a tale of two cities.
1:02.0	We're going to be doing that over the next like seven weeks.
1:05.3	100 years.
1:06.0	The next thousand weeks.
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