Episode 271: The Literary Life of Peter Hitchens
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
On The Literary Life Podcast today we bring you a special “Literary Life of…” episode featuring author and journalist Peter Hitchens. After sharing their commonplace quotes, Angelina and Thomas dive into the interview with Mr. Hitchens, first asking about his memories of books and reading in his childhood. In this wide-ranging conversation, our hosts and Mr. Hitchens discuss such topics as the George Orwell’s lesser known works, the Spanish Civil War and the Balkan Wars, oft overlooked 20th Century authors, ghost stories, losing our literary tradition, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is not just another book chat podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | Lifelong reader Cindy Rollins joins teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks for an ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well. |
| 0:32.6 | Explore the lost intellectual tradition and discover how to fully enter end to the great works of literature. |
| 0:40.2 | Learn what books mean while delighting in the sheer joy of imagination. Each week, we will rescue |
| 0:47.1 | story from the ivory tower and bring it to your couch, your kitchen, and your commute. The literary life is for everyone because in the |
| 0:55.9 | words of Stratford Caldecott, to be enchanted by story is to be granted a deeper insight into |
| 1:02.2 | reality. Join us for an ever-unfolding discussion of how stories will save the world. |
| 1:09.7 | This is the Literary Life Podcast. |
| 1:13.6 | Hello and welcome to the Literary Life podcast. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm Angelina Stanford and with me as always, my faithful sidekick, Thomas Banks. |
| 1:36.4 | Indeed. |
| 1:37.4 | Today we have a very special guest on the podcast. |
| 1:41.8 | And before I introduce him, I should just say, in case we have some new listeners, |
| 1:46.3 | what this podcast is all about. Mr. Banks and I are both literature teachers and English teachers. |
| 1:53.9 | And this podcast is devoted to, just like its name says, helping people with their literary lives. We talk about books, we read books |
| 2:02.8 | together, we try to get back to an older way of thinking about books, and we also like to feature |
| 2:09.3 | different kinds of readers on this podcast in our very popular series, The Literary Life of, |
| 2:15.9 | because it can be extremely helpful to see what does a reading |
| 2:19.3 | life look like in real life for all different kinds of people. And so to that end, we have |
| 2:24.8 | a guest we are very excited about today. The Mr. Banks has been dying to get on this podcast, |
| 2:29.8 | and I'm going to let you introduce him. |
| 2:33.2 | So today our guest is Mr. Peter Hitchens. |
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