Summer Reading 2020

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Backlisted Podcast

Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

It's a summer reading episode of Backlisted. We are showcasing books John, Andy and the show's producer Nicky have been reading during lockdown. These include A Helping Hand by Celia Dale; A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid; A Boy in the Water by Tom Gregory; The Anthill by Julianne Pachico; That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu; The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas; and English Climate: Wartime Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner. This episode features both newly recorded material and also excerpts from Locklisted, the bonus podcast available exclusively to our Patreon supporters.* 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	Wash your hands don't touch your face.
0:07.0	Wash your hands don't touch your face.
0:08.0	Wash your hands don't touch your face.
0:12.0	What your hands don't touch your face. Watch your hands.
0:14.0	Don't touch your face.
0:16.0	Wash your hands and please stay safe.
0:21.0	Ah! hello.
0:25.0	Hello everyone.
0:26.0	Welcome to the backlisted Summer Reading Special.
0:30.0	We have done these before,
0:32.0	but this is a summer reading special for a collection of books that you might like to read by you on a holiday, or if you're not going on a holiday, if you're just staying at home, much as you have done for the last few months, that's okay too.
0:44.6	Taking the controversial staycation, which still in these parts means staying at home rather than simply
0:49.9	taking a holiday in the UK, which is what we used to call women with children a holiday.
0:54.8	So we are having a few weeks off to catch up with our reading obviously always.
1:00.2	So this episode about listed is a bit different. It's partly some new stuff you
1:05.5	won't have heard before and partly some things which our patron
1:09.7	subscribers will have heard as part of the Patreon podcast Locklisted which is like
1:14.9	back listed and we talk about books on it but we also talk about films and music
1:19.3	and other things that we've doing and stuff and I'm on it and Nicky's on it most the point. It's a stool rather than
1:26.8	you're calling me a stool? No I was saying it's got three legs as opposed to a hurdle or something.
1:35.0	Yeah, a whatever has two legs that you can sit on.
1:40.0	You can tell, can't you, all this talk?
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