The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith

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🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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The Diary of a Nobody (1892) by George and Weedon Grossmith is the book featured in this episode of Backlisted. Joining John and Andy to celebrate this touching and funny classic of suburban manners, first published in 1892 and never out of print since, are writer and critic Laura Cumming and novelist and Grossmith expert E.O. Higgins. Also in this episode Andy has been on an imaginary pub crawl round The Local by Maurice Gorham and Edward Ardizzone, while John has been enjoying Percival Everett's 2009 novel I Am Not Sidney Poitier, newly published in the UK by Influx Press.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)9'52 - The Local by Maurice Gorham18'50 - I am not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett 26'24 - The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith* 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	Morning, Mr. Jail.
0:04.0	Oh, hello.
0:07.0	Ah, hello. Andy here.
0:10.0	Thank you for listening to episode 115 of that listed on the diary of a nobody by George and
0:17.2	Weden Grossmith. I just want to alert you to the fact that the sound quality on this episode is not everything that we
0:26.0	might have wished. As you'll be aware we're recording back listed under quite challenging
0:31.4	circumstances at the moment.
0:34.0	We had a few technical troubles while we were recording the episode, and then when we played
0:38.6	the different feeds back, we found that the Gremlins had got into them too.
0:43.0	But we didn't want to lose the episode because Laura and
0:47.0	Ebbwood was such great guests and because we all love the book so much.
0:51.0	So we hope you enjoy this episode of Batlisted. We
0:55.3	apologize if the sound quality isn't quite up to our normal standards, but we hope
1:01.6	it doesn't spoil your enjoyment too much.
1:05.2	Anyway, this episode of Batlisted was recorded on Thursday the 25th of June 2020
1:11.3	and reflects the language and social attitudes of its time. Thank you. Taylor. Laura, where are you? I am about half a mile away from Clacken Common, where there are currently, I think something
1:48.5	in the region of about a million people, most of them with nothing on.
1:52.3	Oh, it a bad way.
1:54.0	That sounds good.
1:55.0	They've been there all the way through the virus.
1:59.0	So if you've got it, it's come from them.
2:02.0	Okay, we should say we're recording this on Thursday the 25th of June.
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