Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay

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🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week John and Andy are joined by super-librarian Nancy Pearl, possibly the only librarian in the world to have their own action figure, to discuss Rose Macaulay's gloriously eccentric family saga Told by an Idiot. John has been reading Sally Bayley's acclaimed bibliomemoir Girl With Dove, while Andy waxes lyrical over Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer-winning novel Less (and has a surprise in store...) This episode was recorded in the library at the recent Stoke Newington literary festival. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 9'04 - Less by Andrew Shaun Greer 17'44 - *Unnamed Memoir* by Sally Bailey 32'04 Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay *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	And the Sounds all right at least. We should always record in here.
0:23.0	Also, this is the library in the town hall.
0:27.0	Yes.
0:28.0	It's also there's something to be said for recording at lunchtime rather than at the end of the working week.
0:32.8	Don't you think?
0:33.8	Yeah, definitely.
0:34.8	Energy levels are quite...
0:36.8	But I understand why we have to do it,
0:38.6	because nobody around, so...
0:39.8	What are you going to do while you're here?
0:42.2	I know you're not here for long, are you? What am I going to do while you here? I know you're not here for long, are you?
0:43.6	What am I going to do while I'm here? Yeah. I have barely looked at the program, but I was hoping you would
0:48.6	tell me that there's something brilliant to go on to after this.
0:51.5	Dave Haslam, the DJ.
0:53.6	Yeah, yeah, he has a book out called Sonic Youth
0:56.4	slept on my floor, which I like to look on.
0:58.4	And he's being interviewed here at 2 o'clock
1:00.3	by First and More from Sonic Youth.
1:02.0	Well, that does sound pretty unmissible.
1:05.0	Everybody always has a good time here.
1:07.0	Oh, I love this festival.
1:08.0	I was saying to somebody yesterday,
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