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The Snow Ball by Brigid Brophy

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Novelist, critic & lecturer Jonathan Gibbs (a/k/a @Tiny_Camels) joins John & Andy to discuss The Snow Ball, Brigid Brophy's novel of seduction, aging and Mozart. Timings: (may differ due to adverts) 5'15 - A Shepherd's Life - W H Hudson 10'31 - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 19'07 - The Snow Ball by Brigid Bardo * 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

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0:21.0

Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free. So it was half term last week. I don't know what arrangements that you had to make in your

0:45.9

respective homes these days for half term. But my son... I just noticed that the children

0:51.8

won't go to school.

0:53.0

Legally.

0:55.0

Why are you still up here?

0:57.0

Why are you not?

0:58.0

Oh, it's half term.

1:00.0

Right on it.

1:01.0

I'm all over it.

1:02.0

My son is 13, so he had quite a lot of homework to do after half term.

1:07.0

So in the mornings he would do his homework and talk to his friends and read a book while I did my homework for this and read a book and

1:17.8

talk to my friends.

1:18.8

And then in the afternoon Miller-Pare a feast, which would convene for Half-Term Film Club, right?

1:28.0

So we had like a three...

1:29.0

Miller Light.

1:30.0

Yeah, three, we had a three...

1:32.0

Yeah, but that's me, I'm Miller Light. We had like a three o'clock film every day and so we watched we did the classic films

1:40.2

because these films aren't on TV. So we watched the Searches, and we watched The Third Man,

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