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Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx with Rowland Barber

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

John and Andy are joined by Dan Schreiber, writer, producer and co-host of the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast, to discuss Harpo Marx's autobiography Harpo Speaks! (1961). Also discussed are titles by Neil Tennant, Alice Jolly, Penelope Fitzgerald and Max Wall, amongst others. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 17'28 - Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx *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

The So I spent the afternoon wandering around I went I was flaneering about.

0:23.0

Yes, I went to the Wallace Collection and in the Wallace Collection is Poussaint's

0:26.0

painting a dance to the music of time.

0:28.0

Plug.

0:29.0

Not that we need to plug it, but you know, we love the books and ahead of doing the episode about

0:35.3

a dance to music of time I thought I can have a look. About which I cannot get more

0:38.2

excited. We can't we can't talk about it. That's a tragedy of it that we

0:41.6

until we're ready to go but when I looked at the

0:45.6

painting I was listening to the audio book of Dance the Music of Time with Books to

0:50.5

Furnish a Room which I have read before but thought I'd better give it a quick once over before we do the

0:56.4

podcast next week. It was on 1.25.

1:02.1

And how did you find it talking really fast?

1:04.0

Well, it's okay because I've read it before.

1:06.0

So to some extent you sort of, and I read it last year, so I'm sort of reminding myself

1:11.0

from, I could just stick it on 2.5 I could stick it on 3

1:15.6

Have you ever listened to it on 3? No can you make out any words? Yeah, you can you get a lot red

1:23.0

No, no because it's all done digitally.

1:25.0

I tell you what is brilliant.

1:26.0

I discovered this when I was trying to read the Silmerillian this year.

1:29.0

If you're plowing through a book and you need a bit of help,

1:32.0

then if you've got the book open in front of you and you

1:34.6

set the audio book to like three you can really motor through it. That's like

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