The Blessing by Nancy Mitford

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🗓️ 11 January 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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John, Andy and Mathew Clayton discuss Nancy Mitford's novel 'The Blessing' with Nancy's biographer Laura Thompson. Plus, what it feels like to finish 'Finnegans Wake', 'bloke's books', and the rudest word in the Gloucestershire dialect. Timings: (may differ due to adverts) 2'34 - Finnigans Wake by James Joyce 5'06 - Third Girl by Agatha Christie 10'37 - Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano 16'12 - The Blessing by Nancy Mitford * 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	I just couldn't be bothered. I mean I'm sure it's really good but I just you know
0:17.7	that I had such a bad experience in the last Dickens I mean you know some Dickens is
0:21.4	brilliant but there's great expectations that
0:23.4	Andrew Davis did. Hey I was in Rochester before Christmas and I accidentally
0:29.4	timed by visit to Rochester the one of the Dickens homes as you know, timed it to the opening of the new railway
0:37.7	terminal at Rochester Station. I emerged from the station at 11 a.m. and there were two groups of people.
0:43.8	There were a load of workmen in Orange Tabards holding up a sign saying Rochester Station.
0:50.0	They'd all been given one letter each and cheering. And next to them were a load of de kensians.
0:56.0	There are loads of Mr. Pumblechooks and...
0:58.7	Me, McCaubers.
1:00.3	Mr. McCaubers, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a big thing in Kent.
1:03.8	Is it sort of cosplay Dickens?
1:05.8	That's a kind of... Yeah, it's exactly what it is.
1:07.8	Yeah.
1:08.8	Well, that's what to Kengue is.
1:10.2	It's cosplay Dickin.
1:11.6	Let's throw a load of Dickin's characters in together and see what happens.
1:14.4	But it's on like, it's 20 episodes of it. Which is a huge commitment, which is one of the things that we sort of...
1:21.8	They've built a massive massive set haven't they?
1:23.4	They've got basically recreated to Kensey in London.
1:25.6	It just looks to me like it's the Doctor Who set, isn't it?
1:29.5	It's like for every episode of Doctor Who that's set in the 19th century.
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