The Warden: Chapters 1-5

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to conversations on a new book, which is in a genre we seem to turn to at least once a year: a novel about (or from the perspective) of a clergyman. We’ve done books on Catholic priests, country ministers, Orthodox monks, and others. In Anthony Trollope’s The Warden, we encounter a warden that is connected to the Church of England and who is thus caught between two sides in a war of Victorian Social Justice. So join in as we kick off this series by discussing it’s representation of competing duties pitted against each other, what makes the warden a compelling protagonist, and Trollope’s approach. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:04.1	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.6	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:07.2	And you're listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Inicurable Reader on which we are moving on to a new book.
0:13.7	We are moving on to Anthony Trollope's The Warden.
0:16.8	I guess technically it's Anthony, right?
0:19.4	Sean is that based on...
0:21.0	I was listening to the audio book.
0:23.4	I was listening to an audio book and the English narrator is like Antony.
0:27.3	So actually it was like a little deeper.
0:29.3	Antony.
0:30.7	And so, you know, it's going to be hard for me to remember that.
0:33.4	But Anthony Trallup, it's part of his, the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, and it's one of his
0:39.6	clerical books. We'll get into all of that here in the minute. First,
0:43.3	Heidi, how are you? I'm doing so great. Thanks for asking.
0:47.1	Are you, is there snow on the ground still? Is it negative 12 degrees? What's going on in
0:50.3	Colorado? It is. We still have snow on the ground, but it is a little warmer. It's only 32
0:56.0	degrees today. Oh, it's less like what it's here. It's warmed up quite a bit. Yeah.
1:01.1	It's like last night, there's a church across the street from our house and they've got a field
1:06.1	and they have lights over it. And so my boy's begging me to go play football with them in the dark.
1:10.1	And I bundled up
1:11.9	and when I was like 28 degrees and windy and it's dark out and I was telling the kids, you know,
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