
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington's charming and surreal novel The Hearing Trumpet (1976, probably) is the subject of this episode. Joining Una, Andy and Nicky is author and lecturer Dr Paul March-Russell, who offer...
18 Aug 20251h 17min

A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney
Dave Haslam and Melanie Williams join us to discuss A Taste of Honey (1958), Shelagh Delaney's first play, written and produced when the author was not yet 20 years old. To describe this as an expert ...
4 Aug 20251h 15min

Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
Angel (1957) by the English writer Elizabeth Taylor, is the subject of this special episode - and, as you'll hear, the next episode of Locklisted too.* Joining Andy and Una for a hotly disputed umptee...
8 Jul 20251h 12min

The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them (1948) is the subject of this episode, almost ten years since Backlisted covered the same author's classic debut Lolly Willowes (1926). Joining Andy,...
24 Jun 20251h 14min

Summer books 2025
Books we think you might enjoy on a plane, by the pool or in the park. Andy, Nicky and our old friend Una McCormack discuss the following fantastic beach reads - Birch reads? - and a novel from Backli...
9 Jun 20251h 8min

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend
The wonderful Nina Stibbe, award-winning novelist and diarist, joins us for a discussion of Sue Townsend's classic comic creation. When it was first published in 1982, the confidential journal of Leic...
26 Mai 20251h 13min

The Image of Her by Simone de Beauvoir
To discuss The Image of Her (1966) by Simone de Beauvoir we are joined by writer and translator Lauren Elkin, whose previous books include Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, Scaffolding and Art Monsters: ...
12 Mai 20251h 9min




















