Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

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🗓️ 28 January 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Critic and editor of Boundless Arifa Akbar joins John and Andy to discuss Hilary Mantel's tale of mediums and malevolence in the M25 corridor, Beyond Black. Tony White's 'The Fountain in the Forest' and 'Mothers' by Chris Power are the books we've been reading this week. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 4'49 - The Fountain in the Forest by Tony White 10'55 - Mothers by Chris Power 18'34 - Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel * 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	On New Year's Eve we watched following the brilliant suggestion from a stranger on
0:18.6	Twitter said if you if you start watching this film at 9.58 PM and 11 seconds.
0:28.6	Wait, if you start watching the apartment, Billy Wild was the apartment at 9.
0:33.0	at 9.58 PM and 11 seconds, they will start singing Old Langsine at midnight.
0:39.0	So we did it and it was brilliant.
0:41.0	It's one of my favorite films anyway but I never done it and
0:44.3	then Jonathan co said there was a screening in the late 70s on BBC 2 of sunset
0:50.9	boulevards which started at like 1040 and sure enough there's a New Year's Eve
0:56.5	party scene at hits at midnight so clearly someone back then had gone you
1:01.8	know this would be a good wheeze. So that was good.
1:04.8	Anyway, hello and welcome to Backlisted.
1:06.9	T. T. T. T. Hello and welcome to Backlisted. The podcast that gives new life to
1:12.1	old books.
1:13.0	You join us in the dressing room of a municipal concert hall somewhere in the Thames Valley,
1:18.0	waiting for a sign from our sponsors unbound,
1:20.0	the website which brings dead authors and live readers together.
1:25.0	I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound.
1:29.0	And I'm Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously.
1:32.0	And joining us today is Arefa Akbar.
1:35.2	Hello!
1:36.2	Hello!
1:37.2	Welcome to Batlisted and Arif is formerly literary editor at the Independent, Aretha is now the editor of Boundless Unbound
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