Berg by Ann Quin

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🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week Andy and John are joined by Jennifer Hodgson, editor of 'The Unmapped Country', a collection of British experimental writer Ann Quin's lost work. They discuss Quin's debut novel, Berg, with its opening sentence: 'A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father. . . '. John also talks about Yorkshire: A Lyrical History of England's Greatest County by Richard Morris, and Andy has been reading Andrew Hankinson's You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat]. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 7'31 - Yorkshire: A Lyrical History of England's Greatest County by Richard Morris 12'49 - You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life (You Are Raoul Moat) by Andrew Hankinson 21'30 - Berg by Ann Quin * 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	The It's very exciting for us.
0:25.0	So you like books, don't you?
0:27.0	Who me?
0:28.0	Yeah.
0:29.0	Do you like musical theatre or not?
0:30.0	No, I'm not a big musical theatre.
0:32.0	I don't believe it right. I'm not a
0:34.8	fan of musical theatre. I constantly having to deal with people. Nick he doesn't
0:38.4	like musical theatre and she's a vegetarian and she's like cycling. All of those
0:42.2	things are very common. Well I like cycling all of those things are very complicated.
0:43.0	Well I like cycling.
0:45.0	How do you feel about musical theatre John?
0:47.0	I like musical theatre.
0:48.0	There's a couple of musical theatre productions I like.
0:51.0	I'm not as you know crazed about it as Andy but then few I like Joseph.
0:55.2	Oh yeah the training braw of musicals yeah absolutely.
1:00.3	That's right go. And what else?
1:03.0	Greece, rocky horror.
1:05.0	Yeah, I mean I like it for its shitness.
1:08.0	Okay, well you go, you build it to bottomless.
1:12.0	Apart from that, I'm less interested.
1:15.0	Right.
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