The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

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🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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John and Andy are joined by Unbound co-founder and co-author of Crap Towns Dan Kieran and returning guest Dr Una McCormack, NYT bestselling novelist and co-director of the Anglia Ruskin University Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy, to discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King, the third part of The Lord of the Rings. Andy also talks about Russell Hoban's classic Riddley Walker, while John has been reading Crudo, the acclaimed new novel by Olivia Laing. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 6'15 - Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence6'32 - Happy by Nicola Barker 6'56 - The Krull House by Georges Simenon 7'51 As Time Goes By - Derek Taylor 8'17 Riddley Walker by Russel Hoben 13'45 Crudo by Olivia Laing 18'53 - The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien *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	Carl has done a little survey for us which is quite amusing.
0:04.0	Just asking people what they think of the podcast.
0:07.0	Uh-oh.
0:08.0	Should we start?
0:09.0	Well, what have we all been up to?
0:11.0	Come on everybody.
0:12.0	Look, I can't talk about the Trump baby. Well, what have we all been up to, come on everybody.
0:13.0	But I can't talk about the Trump baby balloon,
0:15.4	because by the time we go, be old old news by the time we go on.
0:18.0	Should I tell you an amusing exam related story?
0:20.8	Although one of the things in the survey was, you know, maybe that chunchering around
0:26.0	you do it at the beginning could be a little shorter.
0:30.9	So my youngest son, Rory 16, has just been doing his GCSEs and the school rang this week and said we've had a we've had a message from the
0:40.0	exam board saying that Rory Mitchinson's English paper had a story on it
0:44.8	in it of such graphic brutality that they're worried that he might be being you know
0:50.8	he's at risk for abuse or or um so the school said well no he's just
0:59.8	a lot of books does his own thing drums and I said and I said he's a quiet
1:06.1	lad of his and he was at he was hilarious he said well yeah well it was
1:11.6	stories on the theme of something unexpected.
1:13.7	So he said, so I don't know, I sort of written something in class.
1:17.0	It started as a bit of a cheesy romance and then I sort of thought, you know,
1:20.7	move it into full-blown horror.
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