Book In
Book In is a podcast in which brothers Rupert and Charlie Fordham discuss all things English Literature. From Chaucer to the present day, covering drama, novels and poetry, they cover all the classics and much more, from the UK, Ireland, the US, Europe and the rest of the world. Informative but lighthearted, Book In is suitable for all readers, and will be helpful for students doing GCSE, A-Level and university English degrees as well.
Both Rupert and Charlie have been keen readers all their lives and both studied English at university. For many years Charlie taught English at GCSE and A-level.
Book In
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - Part 2
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Charlie and Rupert continue their discussion of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. What effect had the First World War had on the rarefied circles in which Clarissa Dalloway moved, and were those experiences different to the rest of society? The novel ostensibly takes place within the confines of a single day in June 1923, but within this framework, Woolf tells the stories of her characters over many decades. How does she do it, and how does it reflect the way in which we all experience time and memory in our everyday lives? What is the influence of the modernist giants James Joyce and T.S.Eliot, whose seminal works Ulysses and The Wasteland had been published only two years before? And what is the best film made of this book, which on the face of it would appear to be unfilmable? Join Book In to find out.