The Trainspotter's Guide to Dracula
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4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
"3 May. Bistritz. Left Munich at 8:35 P. M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late."
The first line of Bram Stoker's Dracula makes it clear what the novel will be about: trains. As the book begins, the English solicitor Jonathan Harker is travelling across Europe by train, en route to meet his mysterious new Transylvanian client, complaining all the way about the late running of the service. "It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China?"
In the Trainspotter's Guide to Dracula, Miles Jupp uses Bram Stoker's novel as it has never been used before, as a train timetable, following its references to plot a route across Europe by rail to Dracula's castle in Transylvania.
Will Miles be able to reach Dracula's castle more quickly than Harker did, or will his journey be dogged by discontinued services, closed lines and delays?
Produced by David Stenhouse.
Readings by David Jackson Young.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the Maze,. This is the BBC. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi. |
| 0:37.0 | Hi. |
| 0:45.0 | Hi, I'm Rianna Dylan. Welcome to the Seriously Podcast. Just. |
| 1:04.4 | Sharpen your steak? Pick your clothes of garlic and double check your reflections staring back at you in the mirror because today's story is all about the bloodthirsty undead. |
| 1:08.8 | Kind of. It's brought to us by kind of |
| 1:19.0 | it's brought to us by the utterly terrifying actor and comedian Miles Jupp. This is the train spotter's guide to Dracula. |
| 1:23.2 | So, all aboard. Oh, 3rd May, Bistritts. |
| 1:58.0 | Left Munich at 835 PM on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning. |
| 2:08.0 | Should have arrived at 646, but the train was an hour late. Budapest seems a wonderful place from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. |
| 2:19.2 | I feared to go very far from the station as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. |
| 2:25.6 | The impression I had was that we were leaving the west and entering the east. |
| 2:31.6 | It's amazing how many people think that Dracula is a novel about vampires. |
| 2:38.0 | The first line of the thing makes it perfectly clear what it's all about. |
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