Locklisted - Book Recommendation Special

Backlisted

Backlisted Podcast

Hobbies, Leisure, Books, Arts

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a free sample of our subscriber only show, Locklisted, because the next episode of Backlisted has been delayed through illness (though given that its subject is the radio scripts of A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, this tardiness may not come as a complete surprise). A conversation about shelftalkers in bookshops leads to a broader discussion about where we get our book recommendations and Andy runs a quiz based on the principle of algorithmic recommendation. There is also a discussion inspired by Thomas Bernhard’s pitch black 1980’s novel The Cheap Eaters (translated by Douglas Robertson) and John Boorman and Bill Stairs’ 1974 novelisation of the cult film, Zardoz. *Tickets are now on sale for our LIVE show in London on Wednesday May 14th where we will be discussing The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford, with guest Alex Michaelides. * 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 and join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly Locklisted episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted *You can sign up to our free monthly newsletter here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm Andy Miller the author of the year of Backlisted.
0:02.0	My name's John Mitchinson.
0:04.0	I'm the publisher Unbound, a place where people crowd-fund the books they really want to read.
0:09.0	And I'm Andy Miller, the author of The Year of Reading Dangerously.
0:13.0	And today we have a slightly different show for you.
0:16.0	The show on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
0:19.0	the radio scripts, that we were hoping to share with you all today has been
0:24.8	unavoidably delayed. This may strike some of you who know the work of
0:28.5	Douglas Adams and the career of Douglas Adams as entirely predictable.
0:32.4	However, we apologize for this break in transmission, but
0:37.8	instead we have, I'm going to hand over to my colleague Andy Miller. We have an exciting edition of Locklisted,
0:46.0	the podcast that we record for our patrons that we're going to share with all of you today.
0:51.6	Locklisted is a show where we talk about not just books but
0:54.8	also films and music but this show is one where we um I saw it's John it's one
1:01.6	of our more jazz shows this one isn't
1:03.4	jazz show we but we take the subject of a shelf talker which some people listening to this
1:09.7	they won't even know what that is John but we're not gonna tell them yet
1:12.4	right we take the theme of They won't even know what that is John, but we're not going to tell them yet, right?
1:13.6	We take the theme of the Shelf Talker and then we improvise on that theme for an hour.
1:18.9	And it's a bit like listening to a bootleg tape of, let's say, Herbie Hancock's
1:25.0	Wandishi group in Tokyo in 1972, something like that, something
1:29.5	accessible like that. That's the kind of vibe we're looking for very much there is a lot of book chat so
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