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: Let's Celebrate the Jubilee! Featuring Kate Williams and Sarah Bradford | Here at Penguin we're getting very excited about all the Jubilee celebrations that are coming up and so, in order to get you all in the mood to celebrate, we’ve got a very special Jubilee themed podcast! Not only have we got an interview with authority | 5/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 Palest | 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 | 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 | 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 fa | 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 | 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 | 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 | 10/13/11 | 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.
