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Sinopsis
Simon (Stuck in a Book) and Rachel (Book Snob) debate the difficult decisions of books and reading.
Episodios
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Tea or Books? #48: Sad Beginnings vs Happy Beginnings and The Semi-Attached Couple vs The Semi-Detached House
22/11/2017Emily Eden and the openings of books – we muddle our way through episode 48! First – do send any questions you have for episode 50 to simonthomasoxford[at]gmail.com. We’re quite excited about finding out what you’ll ask – about
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Tea or Books? #47: sequels vs new-author sequels, and A Compass Error vs Pleasures and Landscapes
02/11/2017Sybille Bedford and sequels by the original author vs sequels by a different author… we need to come up with snappier titles for these things. In episode 47, we start with a topic suggested by Karen via email –
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Tea or Books? #46: Canadian vs Irish Literature, and My Name Is Lucy Barton vs Anything Is Possible
19/10/2017Elizabeth Strout is our author this episode – and we also dip a toe in the worlds of Canadian and Irish literature. Spoilers: we know a lot less than we should. Suggestions welcomed, please! I’m off to Canada shortly,
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Tea or Books? #45: Do Literary Prizes Affect Our Reading and The Heir vs All Passion Spent
03/10/2017A heated conversation about literary prizes AND Vita Sackville-West. Roll up, roll up for episode 45! In the first half of this fortnight’s episode, we try to determine whether or not literary prizes affect our reading – which wanders
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Tea or Books? #44: Monogamous vs Polygamous, and The Village vs To Bed With Grand Music
17/09/2017After a bit of a hiatus, we’re back with an episode about Marghanita Laski and whether we read one book at a time or many books at once. And because that’s a bit of a mouthful, I’m calling it monogamous
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Tea or Books? #43: scientists vs clergymen, and As It Was vs Fair Stood the Wind for France
24/07/2017Scientists! Vicars! H.E. Bates! Helen Thomas! We’re popping in between holidays to record an episode about clergymen and scientists in novels – doubtless missing plenty of them, but thank you for everyone who tweeted in with your suggestions. We’d
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Tea or Books? #42: trains vs boats, and Illyrian Spring vs Hotel du Lac
12/07/2017Trains! Boats! Anita Brookner! Ann Bridge! This episode has it all. Books set on trains vs books set on boats – Rachel didn’t want us to do it but it happened. And… it was a roaring success? Right? Well, I had
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Tea or Books? #41: novels set in one day vs many years, and The Forsyte Saga vs The Cazalet Chronicles
22/06/2017John Galsworthy! Elizabeth Jane Howard! Circadian novels! Find out what that means, and much more, in episode 41. Guys, it was SUPER hot when we were recording this podcast. It’s rather cooler now that I’m editing, but I rather
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Tea or Books? #40: how do we arrange our bookshelves, and two E.H. Young novels
05/06/2017Alphabetical or thematic shelving? Miss Mole vs Chatterton Square? Episode 40 of ‘Tea or Books?’ continues answering the important questions that others don’t dare to. In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I address the pressing issue of how books
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Tea or Books? #39: spoilers or no spoilers, and Anne of Green Gables vs Daddy Long-Legs
20/05/2017Special guest Jenny joins us for episode 39 – discussing children’s classics and spoilers! I was SO excited that Jenny agreed to join me and Rachel on ‘Tea or Books?’ while she was visiting England – her podcast, Reading
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Tea or Books? #38: male characters by women vs female characters by men, and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont vs At The Jerusalem
01/05/2017Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Bailey, and a bit of a debate about male and female characters. Here’s episode 38 – which is unusually short, but hopefully fun nonetheless. I’ve left in an amusing moment of drama… Many thanks to Kaisha
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Tea or Books? #37: does studying books ruin them? and A View From the Bridge vs Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
19/04/2017Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and schooldays – we’ve got it all in episode 37 (depending on your definition of ‘all’). In the first half of this episode, we meander around the topic of whether or not studying a book
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Tea or Books? #36: audiobooks (yes or no?) and two Furrowed Middlebrow novels
03/04/2017Ursula Orange, Elizabeth Fair, and audiobooks – it’s fair to say that people probably won’t know that much about the authors today, but they are both among the Furrowed Middlebrow reprint series published by Dean Street Press. Any fan of
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Tea or Books? #35: do we want to meet our favourite authors, and The Magnificent Spinster vs The Rector’s Daughter
14/03/2017May Sarton and F.M. Mayor go up against each other, and we chat about whether or not we want to meet our favourite authors (living or dead!) Our episodes are getting a little more sporadic as we’re doing more
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Tea or Books? #34: novels based on real life: yes or no?, and A Pin To See The Peepshow vs Messalina of the Suburbs
19/02/2017E M Delafield, F Tennyson Jesse, and novels about real people – that’s what’s on the menu for episode 34. It’s very nice to have Rachel back (hi Rachel!) and we’ve both been doing homework for this episode –
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Tea or Books? #33: a Thomas twins crossover special!
30/01/2017C.S. Lewis, Meryl Streep, and Alfred Hitchcock! What do they have in common? They all appear in this special crossover episode – where Tea or Books? meets my brother’s podcast The C of Z of Movies. That’s right –
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Tea or Books? #32: jobs in books, and Atonement vs On Chesil Beach
17/01/2017Ian McEwan helps us get dangerously modern in our latest ‘Tea or Books?’ episode, as we chat about Atonement and On Chesil Beach (along with a whole bunch of his other books) – while, in the first half, we discuss whether or
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Tea or Books? #31: lists, yes or no? and The Fortnight in September vs Greengates
02/01/2017Happy new year! Rachel and I are back from a bit of a podcast break, and raring to go for the New Year. In this episode, we look at two novels by R.C. Sherriff, both published by Persephone, and
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Tea or Books? #30: artists vs musicians, and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie vs A Far Cry From Kensington
12/12/2016Muriel Spark, artists, and musicians in our final episode of 2016 – it was a fun one to record. We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year, and fingers crossed for a wonderful 2017
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Tea or Books? #29: short stories (yes or no?) and Bricks and Mortar vs Princes in the Land
28/11/2016Two more Persephones in this episode – Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton and Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannan – along with a discussion of short stories: which writers we like and don’t like, and whether or not we’d race