Memento Mori by Muriel Spark

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🗓️ 9 January 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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John Grindrod, author of Concretopia, joins John Mitchinson and Andy Miller to discuss Memento Mori, the third novel by Muriel Spark. They also pay tribute to the author and agent David Miller, who passed away recently, and read a short story in his memory. Timings: (may differ due to adverts) 3'00 - Food For All Seasons by Oliver Rowe 9'30 - Good Evening, Mrs.Craven by Mollie Panter-Downes 18'44 - A State of Denmark by Derek Raymond* 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 This is an old episode of Backlisted from 2019 which we have re-published to fix an edit. 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	What's the truth you think that's been going on on Twitter?
0:14.0	What's that? What is that? What is the Croydon thing?
0:17.0	So we did a, so John and I did a series of gigs, not last year, but the year before already.
0:25.0	Oh God in Croydon.
0:26.0	We did a series of gigs called Croydon till I die.
0:29.0	We with fellow Croydon residents, Lucy Mangan came and did one and Bob Stanley.
0:36.0	You don't live in Croydon, or did you use to live in Croydon?
0:38.0	Yeah, I grew up near Croydon.
0:40.0	I went to Croydon every Saturday afternoon from the years 1973 to 1985.
0:45.0	The only thing I know about Croydon is the population is the same as Iceland.
0:49.0	Yeah, it is.
0:51.0	325,000.
0:52.0	John tell John about our triumphant homecoming gift.
0:55.0	Well, we did, we did a show at Croydon Fairfield Halls, which you know is, you know,
1:00.0	famous place. Yeah, it's a fantastic.
1:02.0	Well it is. The only place I've ever played my mum was impressed with.
1:05.0	And you know loads of bands, loads of really famous bands like
1:08.0	Crayaf work and Sparks and people have played their own view.
1:10.4	So it's, you know, and Captain Sensible was. Yeah, well he was. He cleaned the toilet
1:15.2	the toilet. Yes, that's right. Good music tradition, right. And yeah, so we got to play this kind of like, you know, 350 people.
1:24.5	And they had to bring those of extra chairs in, isn't they?
1:27.4	It's amazing.
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