Traveling By Book
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Before the time of commercial flights and road trips, we traveled to far off places without taking a single step. All you had to do was open a book. From Africa to England, to a kamikaze cockpit, and to realms of fantasy. Books aren’t just books. They’re passports to anywhere.
Original Air Date: March 14, 2020
Guests:
Philip Pullman — Ruth Ozeki — Robert Macfarlane — Petina Gappah
Interviews In This Hour:
Philip Pullman on 'The Pocket Atlas of the World' — 'His Dark Materials' Author Philip Pullman On The Consciousness Of All Things — A Diary Becomes A Time Capsule — Ruth Ozeki on 'Kamikaze Diaries' — Petina Gappah on 'Persuasion' — The Empire Writes Back: Author Discusses Explorer David Livingstone's Complicated Legacy — Robert Macfarlane on 'The Living Mountain'
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It's to the best of our knowledge. |
| 0:02.1 | I'm Anne Strain Champs. |
| 0:04.8 | Books can take us to so many unexpected places. |
| 0:08.7 | Hello, I'm Petina Gappa. |
| 0:11.0 | I would like to talk about one of my favorite novels. |
| 0:14.2 | From Africa to England. |
| 0:16.7 | It's a book that I think is the most African of Jane Austen's novels. |
| 0:21.6 | My name is Ruth Ozeki. |
| 0:24.6 | To a kamikaze cockpit in World War II. |
| 0:28.6 | What I found remarkable about these books is the way that they humanized these pilots. |
| 0:35.6 | Hello there. I'm Philip Pullman. I'm the author of His Dark Materials. |
| 0:39.3 | And all the way back to childhood. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm going to talk about a book that was a big influence on me, |
| 0:45.3 | which I first encountered at the age of, let me think, about nine. |
| 0:49.3 | I was nine years old. |
| 0:51.3 | Books are not just books, they're passports. This hour we're traveling by book. |
| 1:02.1 | Wisconsin Public Radio. |
| 1:09.5 | Long before I ever got in an airplane, I was traveling the world. |
| 1:14.1 | Paris with Madeline, London with Paddington Bear, Boston Common with Mr. and Mrs. Mallard. |
| 1:20.9 | I'm Anne Strange Champs. It's to the best of our knowledge, and books made a lot of us want to grow up and see the world, including some famous writers. |
| 1:29.3 | Hello there. I'm Philip Pullman. I'm the author of His Dark Materials, currently being shown on television, |
| 1:36.2 | and of a new series of books called The Book of Dust. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wonder Cabinet Productions, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Wonder Cabinet Productions and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.