Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

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🗓️ 12 April 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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We're back! Barbara Pym's second novel Excellent Women, first published in 1952, is the subject of this episode of Backlisted. Joining John and Andy to discuss it are Pym aficionados and literary agents Becky Brown and Norah Perkins from Curtis Brown Heritage. In addition, John has been reading The Mabinogi by Matthew Francis while Andy and guests rave about two novels, Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy and A Wreath for the Enemy by Pamela Frankau.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)17'37 - The Mabinogi by Matthew Francis21'40 - Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy24'46 - A Wreath for the Enemy by Pamela Frankau27'23 - Excellent Women by Barbara Pym* 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	And the You know where I am? I am in the room at the end of 2001 of Space Odyssey.
0:28.0	Where I normally am. So I have, my life hasn't really changed very much I feel like the question that we should ask is where is our soul right now where would it like to be because I watched Easy Rider last night and it was definitely out in the wild American on
0:46.2	open road and that's where I'm imagining my soul.
0:49.7	Had you seen Easy Rider before or was that a lockdown choice? Well so I saw it a long time ago and I grew up with
0:56.9	basically all the cast members in character of Easy Rider around me so but I haven't seen it I'm a child of the west coast of Canada and
1:05.7	there's a yeah it's like the whole you know cast reassembled for that it's like Dennis
1:10.3	Hopper is our neighbor kind of thing not really but, but it felt like it sometimes, but no, I'd watch it a long time ago and we watched it last night and can I just say that soundtrack is, yeah, so I've been listening to the weight ever since on repeat just
1:25.0	thinking about the open road the weight I'm trying to do this from memory the
1:29.6	weight step and wolf right
1:32.2	step and wolf yeah well Step and Wolf right? Step and Wolf, yeah.
1:34.0	Yeah.
1:35.0	Wasn't born to follow by the birds.
1:37.0	Wasn't born to follow by the birds.
1:38.0	There's a Bob Dylan.
1:39.0	Very impressive.
1:41.0	Hey, I, I measured out my life in 60s soundtracks. I like Easy Rider. I love it.
1:52.2	What a brilliant example of a film that means one thing if you see it when you're
1:58.0	17 and another when you're older than 17.
2:02.6	Yeah, I think it captures both the sort of freedom
2:05.2	and the malevolence of the era.
2:07.0	It's a sort of perfect.
2:08.6	Yeah, very good, very good description.
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