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Imogen by Jilly Cooper

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

John and Andy are joined by author and podcaster Daisy Buchanan and poet and lecturer Dr Ian Patterson to discuss Imogen, Jilly Cooper's 1978 novel of a young librarian finding romance - and all that goes with it - amongst the jet set in the south of France. Also discussed in this episode are the late children's illustrator John Burningham and J.L. Carr's idiosyncratic football yarn How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won The F.A. Cup. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 6'04 - How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup by J.L. Carr 11'17 - Champagne & Remembering John Burningham, Imogen by Jilly Cooper *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 We were talking earlier on when the pub about the problem of consistent excellence.

0:23.0

Yeah, that if a writer or a filmmaker or a musician just manages to make a series of consistently

0:28.6

excellent records or books or films, it almost works against them.

0:32.2

My feeling with the Coins is that people look at them and go,

0:34.6

ah yes, another consistently excellent Coam Brothers film. I've already seen half a dozen

0:39.7

excellent Coam Brothers films. I'm a huge fan of Inside Lewin Davis which came out about five years ago

0:45.8

for me that is that if that had been made by other filmmakers that would be acclaimed

0:50.3

as a great great film about the limits of creativity but because it was a

0:55.9

Coen Brothers film people go now another Coen Brothers film I think that's

0:59.2

interesting but I think there's a body of work there I mean you could say the

1:02.2

same thing about I mean

1:03.6

Bergman or Hitchcock you know it consistently excellent I mean both I think made

1:08.6

50 films not all of them maybe as good but the current brothers are kind of I think they're in sort of in

1:13.3

that like you're right that they they get maybe taken for granted but I think

1:17.7

there's always the chance you can go back when we were in recu Vic

1:20.9

God that was we was doing this podcast where we were in wekjavik, God that was, we was still doing this

1:23.0

podcast where we were in Reykjavik.

1:26.0

Brilliant.

1:27.0

Oh, it was good.

1:28.0

I did have White Rush.

1:31.0

Did you ever meet as a Dutch publisher called Oscar Van Geldering?

1:34.3

Have you ever met him?

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