Saturday Matinee: Across The Pond
History Daily
Airship | Noiser | Wondery
4.4 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On today’s Saturday Matinee, we explore the island of Redonda through an interview with Michael Hingston, author of Try Not to be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda.
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| 0:30.9 | There are few places as quietly exciting, as magical and full of possibilities as a bookstore. |
| 0:34.6 | They even smell good, new and old simultaneously. |
| 0:38.6 | In today's rough sea of fast, vapid information, |
| 0:42.8 | bookstores are island paradises, ports in a storm, |
| 0:45.5 | micro-nations ruled by writer kings. |
| 0:50.3 | But what if there was a real island paradise ruled by writer-kings? |
| 0:53.5 | There is the Kingdom of Redonda. To help tell its story on today's Saturday matinee, is the Kingdom of Redonda, and to help tell its story on today's Saturday |
| 0:55.7 | matinee, is the owner of a bookshop, making my, a bookshop as an island metaphor, a nice |
| 1:01.4 | complete circle. Across the Pond is a podcast about the most discussed and anticipated books on both |
| 1:07.5 | sides of the Atlantic, hosted by Laurie Feathers, the co-owner of my favorite |
| 1:11.6 | local Dallas Independent Bookstore in Terabang Books, and UK publisher Sam Jordison. |
| 1:17.0 | In the episode you're about to hear, they speak with Michael Hingston, author of Try Not to be |
| 1:21.6 | Strange, the Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda, the tiny Caribbean island that strangely |
| 1:27.1 | came to be ruled by a line of |
| 1:28.9 | eccentric authors, artists, and academics in what might or might not be a joke. I hope you |
| 1:35.0 | enjoy. While you're listening, be sure to search for and follow Across the Pond. We put a link in the |
| 1:40.2 | show notes to make it easy for you. |
| 1:49.7 | You just realized your business needed to hire someone yesterday. |
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