Close Reads #56: Brideshead Revisited Chapter 7
Close Reads Podcast
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4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2017
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their discussion of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, Brideshead Revisited, focusing on chapter 7.
Topics include:
- Getting to know Julia
- Rex's ignorance
- Why Charles is attracted to Julia
- "Modern" education
- Perspective and Waugh
- and more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, you are listening to Close Reeds, and I'm David Kern. Now, usually on this show, |
| 0:05.0 | we would incorporate an ad read and an intro and all that into the show. And we tried to do that |
| 0:09.1 | three times, but we had a lot of tech issues. So we had to kind of change the way we do this. |
| 0:13.1 | So I just want to say welcome. Thank you for listening. On the other side of this, you'll get |
| 0:17.6 | Tim and Angelina in a conversation of Chapter 7 of Brideshead |
| 0:21.7 | Revisited. Before we get to that, though, I do need to say a quick word from our sponsors. |
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