Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard

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🗓️ 7 November 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Monocle culture editor Robert Bound joins John and Andy to discuss JG Ballard's Spanish set thriller Cocaine Nights. Also, The Ballard-Bond connection, Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad, and the phrase you never want to hear John Mitchinson say in person... Timings: (may differ due to adverts) 4'10 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 11:51 - Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard * 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 and 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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0:00.0	So it was the it was the yeah I mean.
0:16.5	Are you saying this just as a sort of just a warm listness that there may be a
0:21.4	caveat there may be a caveat, a slight sluggishness to our tone.
0:27.0	No, there's not a slosiness, but I'm supposed to speak, Matthew Clayton what did you have for breakfast?
0:32.0	Electric. Matthew claim what did you have for breakfast?
0:33.0	Oh, electric soup.
0:35.0	I think I'm yet to have breakfast actually.
0:37.0	I'm still on the liquid diet.
0:40.0	Listen to him.
0:41.0	You might hear my voice has changed slightly.
0:43.6	Really listen to that.
0:46.6	A good time is how old, wasn't it?
0:48.9	It was. It was a great party. We had a very chilly time.
0:52.3	And there were, I had, funny enough breakfast, I had a really good breakfast in this really good cafe on city road called the Akila and they have a master full breakfast, an apprentice full breakfast, which is quite good.
1:04.2	So I went for the full master, which is delicious, yeah.
1:08.0	Do you need a pizza and then you can have a master of margarita?
1:11.1	You're polite, thank you.
1:15.0	What a lovely idea, a sort of literary pizza themed kind of restaurant.
1:20.1	So I've got a question about Unbound.
1:22.1	Have you?
1:23.0	Yeah, because it's a sincere question.
1:26.0	Which is so Unbound's been going for five years.
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