The Inheritors by William Golding

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🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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William Golding's second novel The Inheritors (1955) is the book featured in this episode of Backlisted. Joining John and Andy to explore this intense, visionary account of the fall of Neanderthal man, published just a year after Lord of the Flies, are two returning Backlisted guests, SF novelist Una McCormack and writer and critic Andrew Male. Also in this episode Andy has been reading Square Haunting by Francesca Wade, while John talks about Staying Human, a forthcoming poetry anthology from Bloodaxe Books.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)7'52 - Square Haunting - Francesca Wade12'36 - Staying Human (Poetry Anthology)17'56 - The Inheritors by William Golding* 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	And the I watched the whole of She-Rah and the Princesses of Power which I can strongly recommend.
0:28.8	Amazing.
0:29.8	Was that for work?
0:31.8	No.
0:34.0	That was just for pleasure.
0:36.0	Where do you find such deep content?
0:39.0	I find it on Netflix children's.
0:43.0	Oh wow, okay.
0:45.0	But I'm not going to tell you the treasures on Disney Plus are just unbelievably great.
0:50.0	Absolutely amazing stuff.
0:52.0	On Disney Plus, you're a Mandalorian fan? Oh God yes, yeah.
0:57.0	It's marvelous, isn't it? The greatest Hurtzog performance ever, I think.
1:01.6	It's amazing. it's just proper good
1:03.2	much better than it has any right to be proper good music as well yeah I wonder I wonder
1:07.8	John if you could give us some clue as to how it sounds well he's just playing a baddie you know he's actually playing a character in the in the thing you think he's at some kind of a gangster some kind of
1:21.6	yes it's just it's just Werner, it's clearly Werner.
1:24.6	It doesn't make makes no attempt to be anything other than Werner Herzog really.
1:28.3	But, uh, it's proper brilliant, it's proper good.
1:31.6	It's joyous, yeah. How did you feel about the big reveal when you saw what he looked like? Did that feel as you get to that point in the series? I haven't seen all of it.
1:39.0	No, because the Mandalorian, he never takes his mask off and then he does and you're like oh that's not right just some
1:46.9	go it's just some bloke that's we now calling them because of my inability to type, we're now calling those things
1:54.8	spoliers in our house.
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