The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Andy and John are joined by Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic and founder of Virago Press, to discuss The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins, a novel first published in 1954 and then republished by Carmen in the 1980s as a Virago Modern Classic. Producer Nicky Birch also talks about her work on a new interactive adaptation of B.S. Johnson's novel The Unfortunates for BBC and Amazon Alexa. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 6'16 - The Unfortunates by B.S.Johnson 19'16 - The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins *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	The Yes, so on my way here today I went to two bookshops and both of which will be of interest to our listeners.
0:28.0	The first bookshop is new. It only opened a few days ago, it's in Soho, and it's called The Second Shelf, and it is a feminist bookshop
0:37.6	and quarterly publisher, run by Allison Devers, and they sell first editions of many of the books that we have featured on
0:46.0	backlist if apart from anything else so if you want to pop in and buy a first
0:51.1	edition of Barbara Cummings for instance she is available.
0:54.6	That's good be Christmas sold.
0:57.4	Absolutely.
0:58.4	Many Gene Reese first editions in there I noticed when I was in there earlier and they were really helpful and friendly and we wish them all the best in that endeavor.
1:08.0	The other bookshop I went into was Foyles on the South Bank and I want to say thank you to Scott and Column at Foyles because they have got an amazing display at
1:19.6	moment of books that we featured on backlisted but not only that
1:24.9	Carmen they are already trailing your episode
1:28.3	Yeah, it says books featured on backlisted coming soon the tortoise and the hair and they're selling a big cardboard
1:35.6	box of mumins under the desk as well. So I'd like to say thank you very much to them. They also let me see
1:41.6	John a sheet of the sales figures and they were going
1:44.8	this really works this is really selling books. So any of our publishing brethren who
1:49.6	were listening to this and also while we're dealing with any other business before we move on, I also want to say thanks everyone who's bought tickets to come and see the live podcast at the LRB Bookshop. We're doing, I'm looking at our guest, I haven't even introduced, I guess, we are doing, so we are being joined by Hillary
2:06.7	Spirling and Philip Hensher to talk about books do furnish a room.
2:11.3	Oh my favourite writer Anthony Paul. Oh! Absolutely door. books do you
2:15.0	my favorite writer Anthony Poll. Ohh! Absolutely a door. I can get you a con-
2:16.0	That's great! I've got me I've got my old old copies of a dance the music of time.
2:21.0	I have been reading it one a month.
2:24.4	You have to be an outsider to like dances of
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