The Penguin Podcast
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The Penguin Podcast is a fortnightly episode of book extracts, author interviews and features from Penguin Books UK.
Available in a number of formats, suitable for most computers and MP3 players, the Penguin Podcast is also available in an enhanced format for iTunes and iPods with colour screens.
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The Penguin Podcast: "New Year, New You" with Ben Masters, Dr. Mike Dow, John Tierney & Mrs. Moneypenny
Author: Penguin Books UK
Fri, Jan 27, 2012
[Download MP3] This month's podcast has a “New Year, New You” theme, so we asked a selection of our authors to provide some inspiration for 2012. First, so we can all remember why we made those brutal new years resolutions,...
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The Penguin Podcast: Hollis Hampton-Jones: Comes the Night
Author: Penguin Books UK
Tue, Jan 17, 2012
In this special podcast, recorded with producer and engineer Roger Moutenot, Hollis Hampton-Jones reads from the opening of her novel, Comes the Night.Drawing on her personal experiences as a model in Paris, she produces an eye-opening insight into the fashion world as well as dealing boldly and compassionately with a range of taboo and controversial subjects. A stark, unflinching novel with a dark heart, Comes the Night chronicles 19 year old Meade’s fevered and tormented journey through the frothy, glossy world of fashion and the shadowy recesses of love.
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Christmas Podcast Special
Author: Penguin Books UK
Wed, Dec 21, 2011
Hello and Merry Christmas from everyone here at Penguin! We’ve got a very Christmassy themed episode with a big focus on food , so if you’re not hungry now you certainly will be by the end. There's a talk from Pen Vogler, publicist here at Penguin and co-Editor of the Great Food series. She’s going to be telling us all about the history of Christmas food and how things like turkeys and mince pies became associated with Christmas dinner. After that there's a brillantly funny extract from the audiobook edition of India Knight’s festive novel Comfort and Joy. If you've ever been to Oxford Street for some last minute christmas shopping you'll understand her pain. And lastly we have Juliet Annan, the Publishing Director of Fig Tree, reading a lovely recipe for blinis from Felicity Cloake’s Penguin Short, Perfect Christmas Day.
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Penguin Shorts Podcast featuring Colm Toibin
Author: Penguin Books UK
Mon, Dec 05, 2011
In this month’s podcast we’re celebrating the release of the Penguin Shorts, our new straight-to-digital series featuring some of our best writers.
The podcast features an interview with Venetia Butterfield, Publishing Director at Viking, in which she explains the thinking behind the Penguin Shorts. There’s also an extract from the audiobook edition of Colm TĂłibĂn’s contribution, A Guest at the Feast, a captivating memoir of a writer coming of age and his connections between home, work and love. And finally we have an interview with Colm himself, in which he discusses a writer's approach to the short form and how it works for memoir.
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The Penguin Podcast: Rob Brydon's Small Man in a Book
Author: Penguin Books UK
Thu, Oct 13, 2011
Hear hilarious TV personality Rob Brydon read an extract from his autobiography, 'Small Man in a Book' - a portrait of how a young man from Wales very, very slowly became an overnight success in much-loved performances in shows such as The Trip, Gavin and Stacey, Human Remains and Marion and Geoff.
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The Boy in The Filter Bubble (Eli Pariser full talk)
Author: Penguin Books UK
Mon, Aug 22, 2011
Eli Pariser visited Penguin to speak to us (and now you) about his new book The Filter Bubble - What the Internet is Hiding from You.
Eli's 'filter bubble' is a concept that's about to change the way you think about the internet – it certainly changed the way we do. And if you're at all interested in online privacy, or the dilemmas involved in having companies like Google and Facebook tailor your internet landscape for you, we can't recommend the book enough.
You can find out more about Eli's book, as well as comment on this episode and listen to many more, at thepenguinpodcast.co.uk.
Thanks for listening.
Email: podcast@penguin.co.uk
Twitter: @penguinpodcast
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Summer Reading (with Nicci French, Robert Penn and others)
Author: Penguin Books UK
Mon, Aug 08, 2011
For your Summer Reading Special enjoyment, we've got holiday book tips from Nicci French (Blue Monday), Felix Riley (The Set-up) and Jussi Adler-Olsen (Mercy). And then there's Matthew De Abaitua (The Art of Camping) on the countercultural side of camping, and Robert Penn (It's All About the Bike) on the democratic and genetic benefits of cycling.
Don't go on holiday without this episode. Unless you've already left. In which case we hope you're having fun!
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A Historical Fiction Roundtable
Author: Penguin Books UK
Fri, Jul 15, 2011
For this episode of the podcast, five of our favourite authors sat down to discuss their shared experiences writing historical fiction, as well as their own unique perspectives on the past.
Harry Sidebottom (author of the Warrior of Rome series) discusses how the 3rd century was an era of rapid change that is wonderfully obscure to most. A. L. Berridge (Honour and the Sword) talks about why the contrasts between nobility and brutality in 17th Century England fascinate her. Karen Maitland (The Gallows Curse and Company of Liars) considers why she finds the myth and magic of the Middle Ages so captivating, as well as how she creates parallels between the historical and the modern to create a sense of familiarity for the reader. Stewart Binns (Conquest) talks about turning to his own time at school to find a heroic adventure from the 11th Century Norman Conquest. And Kate Williams (The Pleasures of Men) discusses the expansion of Britain and of cities in the Victorian era, and the, often overlooked, dark underworld that flourished.
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Bloggers' Night
Author: Penguin Books UK
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
Back in April we held the inaugural Penguin Bloggers' Night. Think of it like an evening of speed dating, where the internet had a gaggle of new books and authors vie for its affections. And here's your chance to listen to that gaggle:
Joe Dunthorne, author of the fantastic, film-spawning debut novel 'Submarine', read from the equally fantastic 'Wild Abandon', out in August.
Luke Williams, introduced his debut novel 'The Echo Chamber', and its narrator Evie, who hears things other people can't hear.
Jean Kwok explained the autobiographical background to her 'Girl in Translation'.
Ross Raisin braved a Glaswegian accent to read from his second novel 'Waterline'.
Rebecca Hunt brought Churchill's Black Dog of depression to shaggy, slobbery life in 'Mr Chartwell'.
Helen Gordon gave her art critic narrator an awkward car journey in a reading from her debut, 'Landfall', published in October.
And Booker-shortlisted author Hisham Matar read from 'Anatomy of a Disappearance', his profound, moving new book about a young boy struggling to deal with the loss of his mother.
Thanks for listening, and thanks to Suzi Feay for hosting the night: visit her website at http://suzifeay.blogspot.com/.
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The Past
Author: Penguin Books UK
Sat, Jun 11, 2011
Historical fact and historical fiction take over the Penguin Podcast for this episode all about writing and the past. Sarah Blake talks about her World War II novel The Postmistress, as well as the difficulties and rewards of writing about a different time; John Stubbs takes us back to the 17th Century to introduce us to two reprobates of the English Civil War; and Penguin audiobooks editor Ravina Bajwa introduces an excerpt from Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl read by Helena Bonham Carter.
We hope you enjoy it!
For more information visit http://thepenguinpodcast.co.uk
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