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Something Happened by Joseph Heller

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Authors Matt Thorne and Nikita Lalwani join John and Andy to discuss the ‘other’ masterpiece by Joseph Heller, Something Happened, first published in 1974. Also in this episode John talks about Brother, a new novel by David Chariandy, while Andy has been reading Ursula Bentley's 1983 debut The Natural Order. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 5'45 - The Natural Order by Ursula Bentley 17'11 - Brother by David Chariandy 21'24 - Something Happened by Joesph Heller * 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

You're going to be here. I'm not talking about the floor this time.

0:15.0

I need to talk about the floor.

0:17.0

I need to talk about the floor.

0:20.0

I've got 13 piglets at at home but that's fine.

0:23.4

Have you been up at all hours with it?

0:25.4

With days.

0:26.4

Not really.

0:27.4

Pings are brilliant.

0:28.4

I mean they are amazing.

0:30.7

I watched four of them being born. You can always tell them they're

0:35.0

if you tell before you get to them because they make this incredible sort of

0:38.6

of rhythmic grunting. So you're think yeah well Rachel also said the day before she made her

0:47.9

her straw into a pile in the middle of the in the middle of the pen into shed where she's kept.

0:55.0

And it's incredible, the little piglets just,

0:58.0

they literally crawl out the results

1:00.0

and then they kind of nibble off their umbilical cords

1:02.0

and then go around and find a nipple.

1:04.3

It's just the most, it's like, you know, there's not a none of this sort of mother licking

1:07.9

it business. They just, um, they just do it themselves.

1:11.2

Sounds that. Sounds out. Anyway, they're very, it themselves. Sounds out.

1:13.0

Anyway, it's mesmerizing to what.

1:17.0

And they are very, very small, but they've, you know, you're wondering how many more can come out.

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