The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

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🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Philip Pullman is our guest on the 100th episode of Backlisted. John, Andy and Nicky travelled to Oxford for this special episode devoted to Robert Burton's extraordinary 1400-page The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published in 1621 and described by Sir Philip as 'a glorious and intoxicating and endlessly refreshing reward for reading ... Nor would we wish the book to be a sentence shorter, or be without one of the thousands of anecdotes and quotations. This is one of the indispensable books; for my money, it is the best of all'.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)4'35 - The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton* 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	Hello, where are we Andy? We're in a tent at the Port Elliot Festival
0:06.7	Basking in sunshine and a few days ago on the on Friday the 19th of July 2019.
0:12.2	2019 so historians know when it was.
0:15.0	We recorded the episode you were about to hear.
0:17.0	We were in a village near Oxford in the house of Philip and Jude Pullman.
0:22.0	In fact we were in their kitchen,
0:23.8	which is very good.
0:24.7	We have this thing for kitchen tables.
0:27.2	Yeah, we recorded around a kitchen table,
0:28.6	but it was a different kitchen table.
0:30.0	It was a different kitchen table.
0:31.5	But rather touching me, they hadn't got a table that wasn't absolutely tottering with piles of books.
0:36.4	The kitchen table was pretty full of books, but we then managed to clear a space for us.
0:40.4	It was the sort of house that you dream Sir Philip Pullman or any writer you like
0:46.2	lived in. It was basically just stacked with books and musical instruments.
0:51.0	Yeah. So it's episode 100, it's slightly self regarding for us to
0:55.1	talk about that, but we want to just say we are astonished to still be doing
1:00.9	this, we love doing it, We're really grateful to you lot for sticking
1:05.9	with us. There's so many podcasts you could be listening to. So many of them are
1:10.5	about murders. Relatively few of ours are about murders.
1:15.6	But some of them are, but they rhyme sometimes,
1:18.2	and I love gassing on about books.
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