The Penguin Podcast is a fortnightly interview series where we speak to authors about what drives them: from where, how and why they write, to their inspirations, aspirations, and even the struggles they've faced along the way. Listen for lively conversations and plenty of book recommendations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Join Bex from the children's radio station Fun Kids as she meets top authors who tell her about their books and also read us chapters from them. Plus, Bex and friends recommend their favourite kids books of the month. You can listen to Bex on Fun Kids (weekdays from 4pm) on DAB Digital Radio across the UK, on the free Fun Kids app, and online at funkidslive.com Plus, when you become a Fun Kids Podcasts Plus subscriber, you get this show – and 30 others! – ad-free and support the work Fun Kid ...
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On the Road with Penguin Classics is a podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author and editor Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of a remarkable reader. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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She found her teacher dead - hanging by a piece of electrical cord. The North Carolina police think it was suicide. Her former friends - the Bluebloods - blame her for being there. And her father tells her to leave it alone. But Blue van Meer is a student of books and can't let a mystery go. Because all her life puzzles both complicated and intricate have littered her path - her mother's death in a car crash; a childhood spent roaming from town to town; her dad's serial affairs. Are these fa ...
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JACQUELINE WILSON & CHARLIE HIGSON: Star of the Show & Worst Superhero Ever
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chats to Jacqueline Wilson about her brand new book Star of the Show where Tess based in Victorian London has big dreams to perform in a pantomime but her brother and sister have other plans Bex also speaks to Charlie Higson about his new book Worst. Superhero. Ever, a sequel to hi…
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CARYL LEWIS, JAMIE LITTLER & SARAH AND RODNEY MATTHEWS: The Boy and the Octopus, Arkspire 2 & Oddney's Otherland
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Caryl Lewis about The Boy & The Octopus where we meet Stanley and his toy octopus who teaches him there's more the one way to be brave and to stand us to bullies Bex also speaks to Jamie Littler about Arkspire 2: The Order of the Misfits where we join Juniper Bell’s Orde…
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KATE PANKHURST & MOLLY FORBES: Fantastically Great Women & Every Body
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Kate Pankhurst about Fantastically Great Women: Sport Stars and their Stories as she tells the fascinating stories of some of history's most talented female sports stars. From football superstars to trailblazing Olympians, women throughout history have fought for the rig…
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GRAEME HALL & MEL TAYLOR-BESSENT: The Ultimate Kids Guide to Dogs & The Race to Imagination Island
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Mel Taylor-Bessent all about her new book Race to Imagination Island where The time has come for four children to be named the new Protectors of Imagination Island where they go all over the world scour the globe in search of lightstreams (portals) to the magical island …
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ALASTAIR CAMPBELL & BRYONY PEARCE: Talk Politics & Hannah Messenger
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to award-winning author Bryony Pearce about Hannah Messenger and the Gods of Hockworld a funny fantasy story learning that the real power is in the friends you make as Hannah and her friends have protect the powers of the Gods of Olympus She was then joined by her final gue…
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CATHY FITZGERALD, SHARNA JACKSON & NADIA SHIREEN: Pinch Perkins and the Midsummer Curse, The Nine Night Mystery & Grimwood - Party Animals
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Cathy Fitzgerald about Pinch Perkins and the Midsummer Curse which is about a 12-year old living in the deep of London's magical quarter but when her mum is struck by a curse she has to find a cure in a race against the clock. She was then by joined by Sharna Jackson cha…
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JENNIFER BELL, IONA RANGELEY & LIZ KESSLER: Magicalia, Einstein the Penguin & Code Name Kingfisher
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Jennifer Bell about Magicalia: Race of Wonders. A spectacular new fantasy series inspired by astronomy, science and Pokémon – think mysterious riddles, ancient meteorites, magical gadgets, curious science and child heroes who won't take no for an answer! She was then by …
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RACHEL MORRISROE & MAZ EVANS: Supersausage to the Rescue & Oh Mummy Mia!
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Rachel Morrisroe about her new release Supersausage to the Rescue all about a super pet named Dottie She was also joined by Maz Evans chatting about Oh Mummy Mia the second book in her God Squads series, this time it's all about Ancient Egyptian mythology. That's all on …
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NANSUBUGA NAGADYA-ISDAHL & MEGAN HOPKINS: Girl on the Fly & Starminster
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Nansubuga Nagadya-Isdahl about Girl on the Fly about a strong young girl called Kamaria as she navigates friendships, family drama, and her own passion for running, and eventually learns to find her own steady inner rhythm as her outer world falls apart. She was also joi…
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LEMONY SNICKET, AF STEADMAN & NICKY SMITH-DALE: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Skandar III & Betty Steady and the Toad Witch
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Daniel Handler from Team Lemony Snicket all about all about the 25th anniversary edition of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Bex then caught up with AF Steadman to chat about the 3rd book in the Skandar series where Skandar and his friends must complete a series of terrif…
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JOE WICKS, CLARE BALDING & ELLE MCNICOLL: Keeping happier, The Best Animal Facts & Keedie
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Joe Wicks all about his new release Fitter, Healthier, Happier where we learn all about our body and minds. Bex then caught up with Clare Balding all about her hilarious guide to the animal kingdom where your favourite animals go head to head in Animal All Stars Last up …
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DAVID BADDIEL SPECIAL: The Parent Agency's 10th Anniversary
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! On this week's podcast we have a special interview with author, comedian and all-round legend David Baddiel. Him and Bex chat all about the 10th anniversary edition of his book The Parent Agency, the plans to move it on stage and perhaps our best this or that yet! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkids…
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Welcome to Fun Kids Book Worms for our World Book Day Special! We'll hear from some of the very best and your favourite authors in this bumper special edition of the podcast. WHO'S ON THE SHOW TODAY? David Walliams about his 2022 release Space Boy Carrie Hope Fletcher all about 'The Double Trouble Society and the Worst Curse! Author of Kensuke's Ki…
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HOW THE NEWS WORKS and the ATTACK of the STINK MONSTER!🗞️👾
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Jane Marlow & Lisa Campbell all about their new release Inside Story: How The News Works where we learn about the work behind the scenes of how our news bulletins really work and how they're put together. Bex then caught up with Jenny McLachlan all about STINK: FAIRY VS.…
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Time Travelling PENGUINS & the quest for IMMORTALITY🐧⚔️
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Sheena Dempsey about her new release Pablo & Splash where we join time-travelling penguins on an unexpected adventure to the time of the dinosaurs. Bex also caught up with Siobhan McDermott all about Paper Dragons: The Fight for the Hidden Realm where a 12-year-old girl …
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William Blake's poetry with Philip Pullman
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William Blake’s poetry and prose. We visit Sir Philip at home to discuss the poet who has ‘inspired and intoxicated’ him for the last sixty years. In Philip’s book-lined sitting room we discuss Blake’s most loved works: his Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Auguries of Innocence. Pullman has written frequentl…
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Giovanni’s Room with Caryl Phillips
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James Baldwin in Paris. On the rain-soaked boulevards, the novelist Caryl Phillips discusses Baldwin's exquisite same-sex love story, drinking in the Cafe de Flore and exploring Saint Germain des Prés. Phillips, who knew James Baldwin, wrote the introduction to the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Giovanni’s Room and an unfilmed screenplay of the…
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A SUPERHERO called INVISADOG and why TIME is more important than you think!
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Stuart Heritage about his new release The ODD Squad: Rise of Invisadog where we meet a team of heroic animal crime-fighters you'll never forget. Sam Sedgeman also joined Bex to chat all about about The Clockwork Conspiracy, a locked-room mystery packed with rooftop chase…
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John Donne's poetry with Katherine Rundell
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John Donne’s poetry and prose in London. The scholar and children’s author Katherine Rundell traces the life and paradoxical career of John Donne from the street where he was born, through the palaces and colleges where he worked to the cathedral where he preached and now lies buried. In 2022 Rundell won the Baillie-Gifford Prize for her biography …
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle with Ruth Franklin
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Shirley Jackson in North Bennington, Vermont. Award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin visits the small village of North Bennington, where Jackson lived for twenty years. We stand in the square where Jackson imagined 'The Lottery' and conjure the ghost of Merricat Blackwood as she collects her sinister groceries in Jackson’s last and greatest novel, …
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Time Travelling with a TORTOISE & Tamzin Merchant's The Troublemakers🐢🪄
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Tamzin Merchant about her brand new book The Troublemakers as we return to the magical world of The Hatmakers in an epic and exciting new adventure on the high seas Ross Welford also joined Bex on the first podcast of 2024 to chat all Time Travelling with a Tortoise all …
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Angela Carter's Fairy Tales with Marina Warner
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Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. In Dame Marina Warner's magical home in North London, the historian and mythographer discusses Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose and their English translation by Angela Carter, as well as Carter’s own Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Our wide-ranging conversation covers Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, B…
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! In today's episode to round off 2023, Bex goes through her favourite books of the year month by month and we hear from the authors who wrote them That's all on this week's very special episode of Fun Kids Book Worms Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for pri…
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This week on the Penguin Podcast we're recapping the year with a selection of the brilliant guests we've welcomed onto the show. We hear from Jane Fallon, Chris van Tulleken, Julian Barnes, David Mitchell and more. We thank you for tuning in, and we'll see you in 2024. Happy holidays. Don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode, and don'…
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A Christmas Carol with Simon Callow – Christmas Special 2023
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Charles Dickens in London. For this festive Christmas Special, the actor and author Simon Callow joins Henry to summon the ghost of Ebeneezer Scrooge and follow him around the City of London, starting at Cornhill, taking in Leadenhall Market and meeting all three Spirits of Christmas. A Christmas Carol, Dickens’s best loved novel, was published on …
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This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal Arthanayake is joined by national treasure and bestselling author, Sebastian Faulks. Together they they discuss the tweet that helped inspire his latest book, The Seventh Son, his thoughts on imposter Syndrome and humility, the influence of George Orwell on his political outlook, and a magical riverbank he di…
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A Clockwork Orange with Jeff Noon and Andrew Biswell
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Anthony Burgess in East Sussex. On the 30th anniversary of Burgess’s death, the science fiction author Jeff Noon and the biographer Andrew Biswell travel East Sussex with Henry, visiting the rented flat where Burgess began writing A Clockwork Orange, O my brothers, and the quiet village where he finished it, taking in a pub, a prison, ultra violenc…
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Eoin Colfer, The Snow Girl, Beano's latest Boomic & Everything Under The Sun
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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex got chatting to Craig Graham, Mike Sterling and Laura Graham from Beano all about their Boomic series and which character the latest installment is focusing on? To get you all in the festive mood we're now joined by Indie Book Award winning author Sophie Anderson about her brand ne…
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Farewell, My Lovely with Dick Lochte
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Raymond Chandler in Santa Monica. As well as The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, we discuss Farewell, My Lovely, Chandler’s favourite of his own novels, as we walk the noir streets of ‘Bay City’ – or Santa Monica in Southern California – retracing Philip Marlowe's footsteps from City Hall to Santa Monica Pier, and chatting about Dick's hard-boiled …
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