How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard

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🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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For the first of three episodes recorded at this year's Port Eliot festival in Cornwall, John and Andy are joined by author Cathy Rentzenbrink and actor and writer Ben Moor to talk about Pierre Bayard's How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read. Three members of the panel have read the book and one hasn't - join the audience in trying to work out who is dissembling (and whether it matters). Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 7'06 - How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard *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 Hello and welcome to Batchez, the podcast that gives new life to old books.
0:24.5	Today you find us returning to the Bowling Green Stage
0:28.3	at the Port Elliot Festival.
0:30.4	One of the UK's best loved celebrations of books, music, food, literature,
0:37.2	or gasmic yoga, anything that you want.
0:39.7	Everything is here.
0:40.7	We are sitting here with our faces painted with glitter. Our bodies
0:45.6	robed in gaudy fabrics and our hands still dripping from the 10-pound lobster
0:50.0	all we've had much. Ten pounds. I'm John Richardson, I'm the publisher of the Crowd Funding publisher Unbound, a place where people
0:58.1	go to Crowdfund the books they really want to read and...
1:00.9	My name's Andy Miller, I'm the author of the year of reading
1:03.6	dangerously. I'm very pleased to be back at poor Elliot and I'm very
1:06.4	pleased to be back on the bowling green stage. I absolutely love this space and
1:10.6	this festival. We are very pleased to be joined today by on my left
1:16.7	Ben Moore who is a writer performer and he did a show at poor Elliot last year called Pronound Trouble.
1:24.7	Did anybody see that show?
1:27.1	It is the best show I've ever seen at Port Elliot.
1:30.2	It was so brilliant.
1:31.4	So I'm so honored that Ben has joined us today. And also in that show, you might remember, he references the book we're talking about today, how to talk about books you haven't read by Pierre Beyer.
1:42.8	So it's even very fitting that Ben would be here to do that.
1:46.0	And welcome back, Kathy Rensenbrink.
1:48.7	Rensenbrink.
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