LoLT: The Magic of Music Discovery and Two New Books

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Melissa & Dave

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this episode, we get excited about two books: Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench & Brendan O’Hea and The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson. Then Dave recommends a website to find new-to-you music. Links Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench & Brendan O’Hea The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson Similar Songs Finder website Transcript of this episode. The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com Do you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace As always, you can find us at: Our site Instagram Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, an unusual celebrity memoir.
0:04.6	A favorite author looks at the parallels between now and five months in 1860.
0:09.7	Plus, our distraction of the week.
0:11.7	I'm Mel.
0:12.5	I'm Dave. This is the Library of Lost Time.
0:16.6	I'm firmly on Team Judy Dench.
0:19.4	Sure.
0:19.7	So I'm loving the new book, Shakespeare, The Man Who Pays the Rent.
0:24.8	It's a mash-up of personal stories from Dame Judy Dench blended with her insights from
0:30.6	embodying iconic Shakespeare roles as an actress.
0:34.3	That sounds really nice.
0:35.4	The actor Brendan O'Haye conducted interviews with her over the
0:38.4	course of four years, and they didn't set out to make a book. The plan was to record her talking
0:44.0	about her Shakespeare roles and then put the tapes into the Globe Theater Archive in case someone
0:48.9	wanted them later. And then they kind of realized what a treasure this was and decided to make it into a book.
0:56.7	The reason it's called Shakespeare, the man who pays the rent, is because that's how Dame Judy
1:01.6	and her husband referred to Shakespeare in the 1970s when they did play after play for the
1:07.7	Royal Shakespeare Company.
1:09.0	Sure, yeah.
1:09.9	So cute.
1:10.8	Yeah. The book's structure is really cool, Company. Sure, yeah. So cute. Yeah.
1:11.3	The book's structure is really cool, too.
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