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 frequently about Blake and previously served as President of the William Blake Society.

Blake’s Selected Poems (Penguin Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33866/selected-poems-blake-by-william-blake-ed-professor-g-e-bentley-series-editor--christopher-ricks/9780140424461

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Naxos Audiobooks edition of Blake’s poetry, read by Robert Glenister, Michael Maloney and Stephen Critchlow

https://naxosaudiobooks.com/blake-william-selections/

https://apple.co/3tRg676

Sir Philip Pullman

https://www.philip-pullman.com/

Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman

https://www.davidficklingbooks.com/shop/ItemDetails.php?pubID=190

https://apple.co/4aVkHpC

Audiobook edition of Daemon Voices

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309349/daemon-voices-by-pullman-philip/9780241372906

https://apple.co/47NE6Gl

The Blake Society

https://blakesociety.org/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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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 novel for Merchant Ivory productions.

2024 marks 100 years since Baldwin was born

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57368/giovannis-room-by-james-baldwin-introduction-by-caryl-phillips/9780141186351

https://apple.co/3Hnscrz

Penguin Audio edition of Giovanni’s Room – available June 6th 2024

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56260/giovannis-room-by-baldwin-james/9781802067224

Calliope Author Readings – James Baldwin

http://calliopeauthorreadings.com/james-baldwin/

https://apple.co/4aTk0go

Caryl Phillips

https://www.carylphillips.com/

The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/130570/the-european-tribe-by-caryl-phillips/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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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 of Donne, Super-Infinite.

Donne's prose masterpiece Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions was published 400 years ago in January 1624.

Donne’s Selected Poems (Penguin Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33860/selected-poems-donne-by-john-donne-ed-professor-ilona-bell-series-editor--christopher-ricks/9780140424409

https://apple.co/48S5406

Donne’s Selected Prose (Penguin Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34100/selected-prose-by-donne-john/9780141396712

https://apple.co/47NE1m1

Naxos audiobook edition of Donne’s poetry, read by Geoffrey Whitehead and Will Keen

https://naxosaudiobooks.com/john-donne-selections/

https://apple.co/3vHDpk8

Katherine Rundell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Rundell

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/katherine-rundell/

Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell (Faber)

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571345922-super-infinite/

https://apple.co/47DGDCx

Audiobook edition of Super-Infinite

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571378258-super-infinite/

https://apple.co/3TSyR4I

Lincoln’s Inn

https://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/

St Dunstan in the West

https://www.stdunstaninthewest.org/

St Paul’s Cathedral

https://www.stpauls.co.uk/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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