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The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Author and playwright Alice Jolly joins the Backlisted crew to discuss The Great Fire by Australian author Shirley Hazzard. Also, AA Gill and Spike Milligan have been Read This Week, and why it might be too late to start listening to jazz in your 50's. Timings: 3'04 - Puckoon by Spike Milligan 10'49 - Poor Me: A life by AA Gill 17:53 - The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard * 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 told you about my first ever meeting of the management executive at Wallstones with

0:14.9

Alan Giles and I happened to be sitting next to Alan I told you this can this be.

0:19.3

It's very bad.

0:21.3

No, but Alan had written at the top of his piece of paper, good morning everyone.

0:27.6

This is a man who left nothing to chance.

0:29.8

You know.

0:30.8

That's like my husband who writes at the top of the...

0:32.1

My shopping list list take list.

0:34.0

Does he take the list?

0:38.0

I'm sure it's a shock to discover.

0:42.0

I'm a late comer to the world of lists but I you know as you get older you just do forget things I used to think that I had a really brilliant memory

0:50.1

would never forget anything but I just don't know whether it's just age and

0:53.6

there's more lumber in the in the old storeroom or whether you really do start to

0:58.7

lose the plot I don't know but I mean that I can go to the shop now and come back and have literally forgotten the one thing,

1:05.7

you know, the chicken that I'm supposed to buy.

1:08.6

We have the tradition now on our shopping list, then the Mueller family, of also having a pseudo list, where what we do

1:16.8

is we try and meal plan for the week ahead,

1:19.2

but both of us feel resentful of having to do it.

1:21.8

So we write things on Friday, pot luck.

1:24.4

The resentment is important. You know, the boys, this is how it was tragic.

1:30.4

It said, why don't we have a list on the fridge of things that we need and I said

1:33.5

because then I would feel my life was a meaningless empty void and I would not be able I just

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