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The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Novelist, editor and critic Erica Wagner joins the Backlisted team to discuss one of her favourite books - The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell. Revolt Into Style, George Melly's groundbreaking discourse on pop culture, and Exmoor Village, a Mass Observation publication from 1947. Timings: (may differ due to adverts) 3.46 - Exmoor Village by W. J. Turner 14.05 - Revolt In Style by George Melly 20.51 - The Animal Family * 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 and join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and get extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a patron at www.patreon.com/backlisted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and I never knew that. knew that.

0:15.0

Oh my God.

0:17.0

What is just Peavots and salt.

0:19.0

Did you know that?

0:20.0

No, I didn't know that.

0:22.0

No. So I didn't know that. No.

0:23.0

So I can't...

0:24.0

I don't really like peanut butter, you know.

0:27.0

No, no butter.

0:28.0

It is butter.

0:29.0

It's like peanut butter.

0:31.0

It's butter made out of peanuts.

0:32.0

John, did you know that?

0:34.0

It should really be hyphenated.

0:36.0

It should really be hyphenated.

0:38.0

It's like, it's not, it's not, it's not

0:41.0

there's no dairy in it.

0:42.0

That's the whole point about it. That's not the whole point about it is there's no dairy in it. That's not the whole point about it.

0:45.0

Well, it's one of the points about it.

0:48.0

But no, my peanut butter is profound.

0:51.0

Pedant butter.

0:52.0

Pedant butter.

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