The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman AKA Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne is the subject of this years-in-the-making episode of Backlisted. Published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767, Sterne's cock and bull story has entertained, baffled, enchanted, infuriated and inspired readers ever since; needless to say, at Backlisted we love it. Joining John and Andy to celebrate this great, hilarious, digressive novel - or is it a series of great, hilarious, digressive novels? - are award-winning children's author Katherine Rundell and our friend Frank Cottrell-Boyce, who adapted Tristram Shandy for the big screen in 2005 as A Cock and Bull Story. As a bonus, you'll hear Steve Coogan, the star of that film, read from the book(s) - exclusively for Backlisted listeners. Also in this episode, Andy enjoys a "relentless excursion into style" with Fun in a Chinese Laundry (1965), the autobiography of film director Josef von Sternberg; while John takes a sounding of Jennifer Lucy Allan's fascinating new book The Foghorn's Lament. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 07:53 - Fun in a Chinese Laundry by Josef von Sternberg 12:42 - The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan 21:33 - The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne *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	I'm in Camden, and looking out over through skies, and I'm in Camden, and I'm in Camden,
0:29.8	and I have two copies of Tristram Shandy with me, because one of them is very accurate, and the other one is a sort of free jazz one, and I thought I'd have both.
0:40.6	A free jazz, Tristram Shandy? That's a free jazz, well, not free jazz, like a jazz jazz array.
0:47.2	Exactly, it's actually too much jazz. It's slightly annoying.
0:50.4	They've, instead of got a marble page, it's a picture of someone's touting lips, it's annoying, but it's the one I had to end.
0:58.6	Is that, and is that specific to Camden? Is that only available in Camden?
1:03.6	Yeah, it's NW one only.
1:05.6	Yeah, I thought so. I thought the metropolitan elite would be involved somewhere.
1:10.6	There's a terrible, terrible Camden lock essay on understanding joke there that I'm saying.
1:16.6	Oh, I put it in a footnote.
1:21.6	Frank, hello, Frank.
1:25.6	That's a nice room, you're in. Is it yours?
1:29.6	Yeah, it's my, this is where I write. This is my room at the top of my house in Liverpool.
1:33.6	And if you could see out of the window over the roofs of the house next door, I can sometimes see the funnels of ships go by.
1:39.6	It's quite nice.
1:41.6	Oh, wow. What part of the mercy sound are you near then?
1:46.6	Foghons. That's lucky. That's lucky, isn't it, Johnny?
1:52.6	That may come in relevant. Let's hope.
1:56.6	Well, I think we should start because this is, you know, this novella you've chosen is, you know, I'm worried we won't know much to say.
2:07.6	Let's take it away.
2:10.6	Hello, and welcome to Backlisted, the podcast that gives new life to old books.
2:14.6	I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound, the platform where readers crowdfund the books they really want to read.
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