Digested read podcast: The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett
John Crace explores his thespian side
Nov 26, 2009•6 min
The Digested Read podcast
A podcast version of John Crace's wickedly satirical Guardian column, lampooning the literary style of leading authors by summarising their books in five minutes
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Episodes
Digested classic podcast: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
'How dare you, sir!' Edith Wharton's 1870s portrait of high-class New York mores is taken downtown by John Crace
Nov 26, 2009•8 min
Digested classic podcast: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
John Crace reminds us that there's no I in socalsm or totaltaransm
Nov 20, 2009•9 min
The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov
John Crace becomes tragically incoherent
Nov 18, 2009•6 min
Digested read podcast: The Humbling by Philip Roth
John Crace attempts to believe in a smooth-talking 65-year-old 'lesbo converter', but he can't keep it up
Nov 17, 2009•5 min
Digested read podcast: Superfreakonomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
John Crace makes some startling discoveries about the economics of sequel-writing
Nov 17, 2009•5 min
Digested read podcast: Meltdown by Ben Elton
Ben Elton's new novel, set in a world of financial mayhem, suffers a severe crash in the hands of John Crace
Nov 13, 2009•5 min
Digested classic podcast: Call for the Dead by John Le Carré
John Crace tails George Smiley's first outing as a spy, but whose side is he on?
Oct 23, 2009•9 min
The Defence of the Realm
John Crace unpicks The Authorized History of MI5 and feels the wool being pulled over his eyes
Oct 23, 2009•5 min
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
John Crace digests this year's Booker Prize winner: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Oct 07, 2009•4 min
The Digested Read podcast: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
John Crace gets lost in thickets of leaden prose as he unravels the mysteries of Dan Brown's new crypto-thriller
Oct 02, 2009•6 min
Digested classic podcast: Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
John Crace is cast adrift on the seas of Sylvia Townsend Warner's classic, Mr Fortune's Maggot
Oct 02, 2009•8 min
Digested classic podcast: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
John Crace sets off in deadly pursuit of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
Oct 02, 2009•8 min
The Digested Read podcast: The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
John Crace traces the evolution of the greatest scientist on earth in Richard Dawkins's latest Darwinian masterpiece
Oct 02, 2009•6 min
The Digested Read podcast: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by William Shawcross
John Crace does obeisance before William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother
Sep 29, 2009•6 min
Digested classic podcast: Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
John Crace endures an orgy of sex and philosophy as he wrestles his way out of the ashram
Sep 11, 2009•8 min
The digested classic podcast: Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
John Crace goes to the Potteries
Aug 28, 2009•7 min
The Digested Read podcast: Starting Over by Tony Parsons
John Crace. Writes. In very. Short sentences.
Aug 27, 2009•11 min
Digested classic podcast: Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
John Crace bids to become Master of the Novelverse
Aug 21, 2009•6 min
Digested read podcast: The Occupied City by David Peace
John Crace embarks on a a GLITZKRIEG of PRETENTIOUSNESS
Aug 19, 2009•6 min
Digested classic podcast: The Golden Bowl by Henry James
John Crace builds some nodding-off breaks into his reading
Aug 14, 2009•7 min
Digested read podcast: The Exmoor Files by Liz Jones
John Crace retouches his roots
Aug 13, 2009•6 min
Digested read: Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
John Crace is like, whatever, about a chick-lit ghost story
Aug 06, 2009•5 min
Digested classic podcast: The Immoralist by André Gide
Stand by for a spot of hedonism and moral recklessness as John Crace distills another literary classic
Aug 03, 2009•7 min
Digested read podcast: The Game Cook by Norman Tebbit
John Crace bites the head off Norman Tebbit's cookbook and shoves it in the oven for a good roasting
Jul 30, 2009•6 min
Digested classic podcast: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig
John Crace throws some spanners in the works
Jul 24, 2009•7 min
Digested read podcast: Chastened by Hepzibah Anderson
John Crace tries to go for an entire column without sex
Jul 22, 2009•6 min
The Digested Read podcast: The Hound of Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
John Crace heads out to the Grimpen Mire
Jul 17, 2009•7 min
Digested read podcast: Magnificent Desolation by Buzz Aldrin
John Crace attempts to get over the Moon
Jul 14, 2009•5 min
The digested classic podcast: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
John Crace has a quick search for lost time
Jul 10, 2009•7 min
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