The Penguin Podcast
By Penguin Books UK
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Podcast Description
The Penguin Podcast - audio extracts, author interviews and news from the UK's No1 book destination
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The Penguin Podcast: The Great British Podcast featuring The Penguin English Library and an EXCLUSIVE competition | [Download MP3 ] With the Diamond Jubilee right around the corner, everyone at Penguin is feeling very proud to be British so we've got a very British podcast for you all. We've got an interview with Simon Winder, editor of... | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Penguin Podcast: A Podcast Special to mark the release of THE SIGN, featuring the author Thomas de Wesselow | Today we have podcast special to mark the global publication this week of The Sign, a major new historical work written by the Cambridge art historian Thomas de Wesselow examining the birth of the Christian religion nearly 2000 years ago in ancient Palestine. As one of the world’s core religions, Christianity has shaped the course of human history. Yet until now, historians have been unable to explain how it really began. How did a 1st-century preacher called Jesus manage to spark a new religion? It is one of the biggest and most profound of all historical mysteries. Now, after years of secret research, the author of The Sign puts all the pieces of the puzzle together and presents a radical, controversial and convincing answer. De Wesselow's revolutionary findings have been kept a secret until today, and in this interview, the author and his editor at Penguin, Joel Rickett, discuss this groundbreaking work of history. | 3/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Penguin Podcast: Mother's Day Special with Rachel Khoo & Virginia McKenna | In this month’s podcast we’re celebrating Mother's Day. We've got an interview with Rachel Khoo, author of The Little Paris Kitchen, and she'll be giving us a recipe perfect for celebrating the big day on Sunday! Virginia McKenna, famous for Born Free, took time out from recording the audiobook edition of An African Love Story to speak to our audiobook producer ,Roy McMillian, and, if that wasn't enough, we've got an extract from the brilliant Millions Like Us! | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Penguin Podcast: A Charles Dickens special featuring Claire Tomalin | In this month’s podcast we’re celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Dickens with a podcast special devoted to the great man. We’re featuring a chat between Claire Tomalin, author of Charles Dickens: A Life, and her editor Tony Lacey, as well as an extract from the audiobook edition of her work; we also have some remastered content from an old archive recording of Dombey & Son! | 2/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Penguin Podcast: "New Year, New You" with Ben Masters, Dr. Mike Dow, John Tierney & Mrs. Moneypenny | [Download MP3] This month's podcast has a “New Year, New You” theme, so we asked a selection of our authors to provide some inspiration for 2012. First, so we can all remember why we made those brutal new years resolutions,... | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Penguin Podcast: Hollis Hampton-Jones: Comes the Night | In this special podcast, recorded with producer and engineer Roger Moutenot, Hollis Hampton-Jones reads from the opening of her novel, Comes the Night.Drawing on her personal experiences as a model in Paris, she produces an eye-opening insight into the fashion world as well as dealing boldly and compassionately with a range of taboo and controversial subjects. A stark, unflinching novel with a dark heart, Comes the Night chronicles 19 year old Meade’s fevered and tormented journey through the frothy, glossy world of fashion and the shadowy recesses of love. | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christmas Podcast Special | Hello and Merry Christmas from everyone here at Penguin! We’ve got a very Christmassy themed episode with a big focus on food , so if you’re not hungry now you certainly will be by the end. There's a talk from Pen Vogler, publicist here at Penguin and co-Editor of the Great Food series. She’s going to be telling us all about the history of Christmas food and how things like turkeys and mince pies became associated with Christmas dinner. After that there's a brillantly funny extract from the audiobook edition of India Knight’s festive novel Comfort and Joy. If you've ever been to Oxford Street for some last minute christmas shopping you'll understand her pain. And lastly we have Juliet Annan, the Publishing Director of Fig Tree, reading a lovely recipe for blinis from Felicity Cloake’s Penguin Short, Perfect Christmas Day. | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Penguin Shorts Podcast featuring Colm Toibin | In this month’s podcast we’re celebrating the release of the Penguin Shorts, our new straight-to-digital series featuring some of our best writers. The podcast features an interview with Venetia Butterfield, Publishing Director at Viking, in which she explains the thinking behind the Penguin Shorts. There’s also an extract from the audiobook edition of Colm Tóibín’s contribution, A Guest at the Feast, a captivating memoir of a writer coming of age and his connections between home, work and love. And finally we have an interview with Colm himself, in which he discusses a writer's approach to the short form and how it works for memoir. | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Penguin Podcast: Rob Brydon's Small Man in a Book | Hear hilarious TV personality Rob Brydon read an extract from his autobiography, 'Small Man in a Book' - a portrait of how a young man from Wales very, very slowly became an overnight success in much-loved performances in shows such as The Trip, Gavin and Stacey, Human Remains and Marion and Geoff. | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Boy in The Filter Bubble (Eli Pariser full talk) | Eli Pariser visited Penguin to speak to us (and now you) about his new book The Filter Bubble - What the Internet is Hiding from You. Eli's 'filter bubble' is a concept that's about to change the way you think about the internet – it certainly changed the way we do. And if you're at all interested in online privacy, or the dilemmas involved in having companies like Google and Facebook tailor your internet landscape for you, we can't recommend the book enough. You can find out more about Eli's book, as well as comment on this episode and listen to many more, at thepenguinpodcast.co.uk. Thanks for listening. Email: podcast@penguin.co.uk Twitter: @penguinpodcast | 8/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Uneven, poor quality sound
I loved the idea of the Penguin Podcast, but I've ended my subscription. Why? The quality was so uneven. One week, a set of intriguing selections from murder mysteries; the next, the gawdawful Hairy Bikers with their less than knowledgeable stories of traveling Vietnam and the Middle East looking for food. Perhaps they would be funny if you'd seen the TV show, but I hadn't. It was by no means the cultural coup the announcer for the Penquin Podcasts claimed it was. I loved the reading of Dicken's Christmas Carol. Sure, it's been done, but it was seasonal and reminded me of the intense descriptiveness of Dickens. But then there was the long, uninspired reading from someone's gastronomical tourbook of London. No description, just "you know the xxxx, well next time you're there, have some of the chips at yyyy." No attempt to draw in the listener. The real killer, though, was the truly abysmal sound quality. I can handle accents -- jeez, I know 7 languages myself, I can handle some difference -- but when I'm walking along city streets or on the El listening, the sound needs to be clear enough that I can listen without blowing out my eardrums a la that guitarist from the Who. I had to turn the Penquin Podcasts up full blast to hear -- and I use high quality, closed headphones, not those little buds. Penquin Podcasts were notably quieter and fuzzier than all the other podcasts I listen to. So, Penquin, clean up your act! At least get the sound quality good enough, and then I'll listen even if I'm less than impressed with the content. Sorry, I WANTED to like it!
Thoughtful, interesting, fun
Penguin Books has done a very nice job on their podcast, which features readings and author interviews from the publishing company's authors. They consistently put out a wide variety of subjects, ranging from crime novels to cooking and children's books to "acclaimed novels." While a podcast about books has the potential to be extremely droll, this is not this case here. At the end and beginning of most shows, a "Penguin remix" is featured; these are upbeat dance remixes of book recordings, and are often quite funny. With this and its sharp, tight format, the Penguin Podcast should remain entertaining and listenable for a long time.
excellent podcast!
I love The Penguin Podcast. It takes book reading to the next level. I like hearing what the writing process is like from the author's mouth. There are also tidbits of info you won't find in the books. The books and authors are really varied which is nice, because it means I get to hear things I ordinarily wouldn't. It's actually turned me onto a few good books, like The Memory Keeper's Daughter. And best of all, it's intelligently done. Bravo.
