On the Road with Penguin Classics - Series 4

Another series of On The Road with Penguin Classics in which Henry and I met a brilliant set of people and visited some truly amazing places.

In series 4 we read:

• Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with the novelist Monica Ali in Chawton, Hampshire.

• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with the neuroscientist Anil Seth and the poet Fiona Sampson in Bath.

• Raymond Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely with the mystery writer Dick Lochte in Santa Monica.

• Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange with the science-fiction novelist Jeff Noon and the biographer Andrew Biswell in East Sussex.

• Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with the actor and biographer Simon Callow in London.

• Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault and Angela Carter at home with the historian and mythographer Marina Warner.

• Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle with the journalist and biographer Ruth Franklin in North Bennington, Vermont.

• John Donne's poetry and prose with the scholar and children's author Katharine Rundell in London.

• James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room with the novelist Caryl Phillips in Paris, France.

• William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience at home with the novelist Philip Pullman.

Written and presented by Henry Elliot.

Recorded, produced and mixed by Andrea Rangecroft. Additional recording by Megan Tan and Lucy Little.