Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn - Rerun

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🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In a special edition recorded earlier this year live at the Durham Book Festival, John and Andy are joined by writers Adele Stripe and Ben Myers to discuss Gordon Burn's debut novel Alma Cogan. The 'What Have We Been Reading?' slots are occupied by Pevsner's guide to Durham and The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro * 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. *If you'd like to support the show, join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and get extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a patron at www.patreon.com/backlisted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	I think of it like a Tamagotchi.
0:17.0	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby.
0:21.6	Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus.
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0:30.6	Hi, it's Nikki.
0:31.8	Hi, it's Andy.
0:32.6	Thanks for tuning in and going to Batlisted.
0:34.7	We've got another show today from our archive.
0:37.4	This one was recorded in October, 2017,
0:40.2	and went out in the early weeks of November.
0:42.2	And it's about the novel Alma Cogan by the late Gordon Byrne,
0:48.5	the late and very great Gordon Byrne.
0:50.5	It was recorded live at the Durham Book Festival
0:52.5	with Ben Myers and Adele Stripe.
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