The Nobodies

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Clerks, shop assistants, secretaries, salespeople — we have lots to learn from the lower middle class characters of classic detective fiction. Thanks to my guest, Dr Nicola Bishop. Her book, Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture is published by Bloomsbury Academic. Find out more about this episode at shedunnitshow.com/thenobodies. To support the podcast, be part of a superb bookish community, and get two bonus episodes a month, become a member of the Shedunnit Book Club now at shedunnitbookclub. Mentioned in this episode: — The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith — The Suburbans by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland — "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot — The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie — After the Funeral by Agatha Christie — The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie — The Big Four by Agatha Christie NB: Links to Blackwell's are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell's is a UK independent bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge. To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/thenobodiestranscript. Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, what up, Rowan Kitty here?
0:02.0	This Friday.
0:03.0	I believe the system is broken.
0:05.0	Witness the insane, true story of the little guy who took on the Giants.
0:10.0	Wall Street must be saying this right.
0:12.0	We're going to the moon!
0:14.0	Starring Paul Dano and Seth Rogen.
0:16.0	How much do we lose today?
0:17.0	A billion.
0:18.0	How much should we make today?
0:19.0	11 million dollars!
0:21.0	Critics are calling it hilarious and wildly entertaining.
0:24.0	If he's in, I'm in.
0:27.0	Don Money.
0:29.0	In cinemas Friday.
0:34.0	One of the delightful and reassuring things about classic detective fiction
0:39.0	is that it tends to abide by certain tropes.
0:43.0	When picking up a who done it from the 1920s or 30s,
0:47.0	the reader can be fairly sure of what they might encounter within its pages.
0:53.0	Settings like country houses or small English villages are very familiar.
0:58.0	As is the presence of a corpse and a detective with the intellectual prowess
1:02.0	to work out how this person wound up dead.
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