Bizarre books and macabre manuscripts
History Extra podcast
Immediate Media
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Edward Brooke-Hitching discusses some of history’s strangest literary curiosities, from hoax manuscripts to tomes bound in human skin
Edward Brooke-Hitching discusses his book The Madman’s Library, which tells the stories of some of history’s strangest literary curiosities, from hoax manuscripts and books of demonology to volumes written in blood or bound in human skin.
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| 1:02.0 | Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History magazine, |
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| 1:18.0 | I'm Ellie Corthon. |
| 1:20.0 | First of all, Happy New Year. |
| 1:22.0 | And on this podcast, we've got a suitably bizarre slice of history to kick off 2021. |
| 1:28.0 | If there's something I learned from the conversation that you're about to hear, |
| 1:32.0 | it's that people have made some incredibly weird books down the ages. |
| 1:36.0 | I was speaking to the author Edward Brook Hitching about his book, The Madman's Library, |
| 1:42.0 | a compendium of some of the most curious books and manuscripts ever made. |
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