The Digested Read podcast
By guardian.co.uk
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Podcast Description
A podcast version of John Crace's wickedly satirical Guardian column, lampooning the literary style of leading authors by summarising their books in five minutes
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The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch | John Crace has a quick dip into the Booker prize-winning novel | 27 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Must You Go? by Antonia Fraser | John Crace looks at the author's memories of life with Harold Pinter, with the pauses taken out | 27 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury | John Crace makes a quick study of a depraved academic | 14 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Candleford Green by Flora Thompson | John Crace makes a Sunday night feelgood costume drama | 13 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You Need This Book to Get What You Want by Mark Palmer and Scott Solder | John Crace helps himself | 13 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera | The unbearable lightness of trying to be Milan Kundera gets to John Crace as he swallows his classic text | 8 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Driven to Distraction by Clarkson | John Crace takes journalism's monster truck for a spin and writes him off | 8 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh | John Crace experiments wi skaggie an aw tha' | 3 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Delia's Happy Christmas by Delia Smith | John Crace reheats some leftover recipes | 1 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Habit of Art by Alan Bennett | John Crace explores his thespian side | 26 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | 'How dare you, sir!' Edith Wharton's 1870s portrait of high-class New York mores is taken downtown by John Crace | 26 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov | John Crace becomes tragically incoherent | 18 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler | John Crace reminds us that there's no I in socalsm or totaltaransm | 18 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Meltdown by Ben Elton | Ben Elton's new novel, set in a world of financial mayhem, suffers a severe crash in the hands of John Crace | 13 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Humbling by Philip Roth | John Crace attempts to believe in a smooth-talking 65-year-old 'l***o converter', but he can't keep it up | 13 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Superfreakonomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner | John Crace makes some startling discoveries about the economics of sequel-writing | 13 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Call for the Dead by John Le Carré | John Crace tails George Smiley's first outing as a spy, but whose side is he on? | 22 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Defence of the Realm by Christopher Andrew | John Crace unpicks The Authorized History of MI5 and feels the wool being pulled over his eyes | 22 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel | John Crace digests this year's Booker Prize winner: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel | 6 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown | John Crace gets lost in thickets of leaden prose as he unravels the mysteries of Dan Brown's new crypto-thriller | 1 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner | John Crace is cast adrift on the seas of Sylvia Townsend Warner's classic, Mr Fortune's Maggot | 1 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins | John Crace traces the evolution of the greatest scientist on earth in Richard Dawkins's latest Darwinian masterpiece | 1 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23 |
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy | John Crace sets off in deadly pursuit of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian | 1 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by William Shawcross | John Crace does obeisance before William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother | 29 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitAtomised by Michel Houellebecq | John Crace endures an orgy of sex and philosophy as he wrestles his way out of the ashram | 10 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett | John Crace goes to the Potteries | 28 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Starting Over by Tony Parsons | John Crace. Writes. In very. Short sentences. | 27 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe | John Crace bids to become Master of the Novelverse | 21 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Occupied City by David Peace | John Crace embarks on a a GLITZKRIEG of PRETENTIOUSNESS | 19 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Golden Bowl by Henry James | John Crace builds some nodding-off breaks into his reading | 15 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Exmoor Files by Liz Jones | John Crace retouches his roots | 12 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella | John Crace is like, whatever, about a chick-lit ghost story | 30 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Game Cook by Norman Tebbit | John Crace bites the head off Norman Tebbit's cookbook and shoves it in the oven for a good roasting | 30 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Immoralist by André Gide | Stand by for a spot of hedonism and moral recklessness as John Crace distills another literary classic | 30 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig | John Crace throws some spanners in the works | 22 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chastened by Hepzibah Anderson | John Crace tries to go for an entire column without sex | 21 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Hound of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | John Crace heads out to the Grimpen Mire | 17 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Magnificent Desolation by Buzz Aldrin | John Crace attempts to get over the Moon | 14 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust | John Crace has a quick search for lost time | 11 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Case for God by Karen Armstrong | John Crace has a go at believing | 6 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner | John Crace gets bored in Switzerland | 4 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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To Heaven by Water by Justin Cartwright | John Crace is at one with the Sublime | 2 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Champion's Mind by Pete Sampras | John Crace goes in search of the personality behind the winner of 14 grand slam titles, Pete Sampras | 23 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs | John Crace becomes king of the jungle | 19 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitI'm Only Being Honest by Jeremy Kyle | John Crace channel hops through the life of a daytime TV star | 16 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJunky by William S Burroughs | John Crace experiments with drug memoirs | 12 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPygmy by Chuck Palahniuk | John Crace has a go at being tough MoFo of American novel on Viagra | 9 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Casino Royale by Ian Fleming | Agent 007 gets eaten alive as John Crace employs his licence to kill on the first James Bond Novel | 5 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters | John Crace struggles to adjust to the new social order after the second world war | 2 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham | John Crace journeys into post-apocalypse Britain | 29 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Voodoo Histories by David Aaronovitch | John Crace digests David Aaronovitch's book about significant conspiracy theories, from the death of Diana to the moon landings | 20 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Herzog by Saul Bellow | John Crace writes lots of letters, but doesn't send them | 15 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro | John Crace watches the acclaimed novelist take tips from Jeffrey Archer | 12 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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More P***ks Than Kicks by Samuel Beckett | John Crace condenses the story of Belacqua Shuah - and wrestles with a lobster along the way | 8 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Confucius From the Heart by Yu Dan | John Crace inherits the mantle of the Great Sage | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Saturday Night, Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe | John Crace goes on a major bender | 2 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Under Their Thumb by Bill German | John Crace trails after a fan trailing after The Rolling Stones | 28 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy | John Crace puts on some damned elusive disguise | 24 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult | John Crace gets to grips with some Big Questions | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys | John Crace swims through some fevered modernist memories | 17 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Grow Your Own Drugs by James Wong | John Crace fails to get healed, or high | 14 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Generation X by Douglas Coupland | John Crace gets deep and meaningless | 7 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Glover's Mistake by Nick Laird | John Crace is enslaved by his id | 7 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler | John Crace makes a quick investigation of the noir masterpiece | 3 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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God Bless America by Piers Morgan | Piers Morgan swans around America; John Crace chases after him | 31 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse | Tantric bliss, Brian Ferryman and lots and lots of "om". John Crace takes up the lotus position and transcends his destiny | 25 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stanley, I Presume by Stanley Johnson | John Crace enters the spiffing world of Boris maximus | 24 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Thief's Journal by Jean Genet | John Crace laughs in the face of bourgeois convention and becomes rapidly depraved | 13 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Strangers by Anita Brookner | John Crace is quickly overcome with melancholy | 10 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Enduring Love by Ian McEwan | John Crace tumbles through a ballooning nightmare | 6 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Men Are Stupid ... and They Like Big Boobs by Joan Rivers | John Crace plunges in to plastic surgery | 3 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles | John Crace goes down with existential ennui in Africa | 27 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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All the Nice Girls by Joan Bakewell | John Crace whizzes through a wartime romance | 24 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | John Crace is seduced by this classic tale of forbidden love | 20 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Victorians by Jeremy Paxman | John Crace (aggressively) questions the grand inquisitor's study of history | 17 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford | John Crace cuts the saddest story ever told short | 10 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Associate by John Grisham | John Crace makes a snap judgment of the latest case from the legal bestseller | 10 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Success by Martin Amis | John Crace fails to find much to admire in this once-acclaimed 80s satire | 4 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Last Supper by Rachel Cusk | John Crace follows the author on holiday to Italy, and comes home very quickly | 3 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The World According to Garry Bushell | John Crace navigates the backwaters of the opinionator-in-chief's blog | 27 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce | John Crace zooms down memory lane with the master modernist | 20 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Digested Read: How to Meet a Man After Forty by Shane Watson | John Crace goes looking for The One | 20 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Digested Read: Sarah Palin by Kaylene Johnson | John Crace makes a quick study of the life of a hockey mom | 14 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Liberty by Garrison Keillor | John Crace digests Liberty by Garrison Keillor | 6 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Digested Classic: Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford | John Crace spends a brief summer with the Hamptons | 6 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Digested Classic: A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell | John Crace tangoes briefly through the first part of A Dance to the Music of Time | 6 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Digested Classic: The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger | John Crace cuts Holden Caulfield's struggles with the phonies down to size | 6 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Digested Classic: High Fidelity by Nick Hornby | John Crace takes a brief look at Nick Hornby's record collection | 5 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The digested read: The Pursuit of Laughter by Diana Mosley | John Crace looks for chuckles in the essays of the wife of Britain's fascist leader | 17 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Digested Classic: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark | John Crace takes on Scotland's most famous teacher | 12 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Digested Read: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling | John Crace uses his magic powers to shrink the wizardly tale down to 400 words | 8 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe digested classic: Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth | John Crace plays with Portnoy's Compaint by Philip Roth | 4 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Digested Read: Everyday Drinking by Kingsley Amis | John Crace swallows a very thirsty volume | 2 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The digested classic: Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee | John Crace downs another classic in one | 2 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The digested classic: Justine by Lawrence Durrell | John Crace takes a quick trip through Alexandria | 28 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Digested Read: And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks, by William S Burroughs and Jack Kerouac | John Crace speeds through the drug-addled murder story by a pair of dead Beats | 25 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Digested Read: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell | John Crace pads out the original ideas in the 'new' theory of genius to make just over five minutes | 18 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The digested classic: The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham | John Crace digests The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham | 13 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Digested Read: All in the Mind, by Alastair Campbell | John Crace's swift analysis of All in the Mind by Alastair Campbell | 11 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe digested classic: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson | John Crace has a quick go at gonzo | 20 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 100 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Consideration
Erudite, vicious and very funny - so good, it has prompted my first ever Podcast review.
Poor poor poor
Not sure about this ....... Saturday night Sunday morning ?????.... Was that meant go be funny ??? Arther seaton with a Newcastle accent .....crap
