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Nudie Reads Pears' Cyclopaedia [S1E36]
Pears' Cyclopaedia started in 1897 and continued til 2017. It was a little book of everything you could conceivably need to know - about everything. It was made to sell soap but it also contained a p...
20 Mai 202124min
Nudie Reads Doctor Watson & Sherlock Holmes [S1E35]
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon features 56 stories and 4 novels, all of them wonderfully written adventures ostensibly from the pen of Doctor John Watson. Their first meeting, at which...
16 Mai 202122min
Nudie Reads Famous Feuds [S1E34]
The feud of the Hatfields and the McCoys of Tug Fork in the US and the 19 year duel of Dupont and Fourier in France were extended violent affairs. Hatred and animus has always been the subject of grea...
13 Mai 202124min
Nudie Reads Ernest Hemingway [S1E33]
Ernest Hemingway was a journalist before was a novelist. And it shows in his writing style. He loved spare, simple, straightforward language. So his books including The Sun Also Rises are quick to rea...
9 Mai 202118min
Nudie Reads Dad, Is That You? [S1E32]
Murray Walker was famous as a Formula 1 car racing commentator but there was much more to the man than just the dizzy heights of one of the most dangerous, exciting and popular international sport. He...
6 Mai 202113min
Nudie Reads A Literary Dementor [S1E31]
Nathaneal West was a depression era American author - alongside F Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck, but West is known for his depressing reads. Like a Dementor his stories suck all the joy out of l...
2 Mai 202115min
Nudie Reads Not By The Book [S1E30]
Edmond Hoyle wrote the book. The book of the rules of card games. And chess and backgammon. But his work was immediately pirated by cheeky 18th century printers. At least the pirates wrote some good c...
29 Apr 202112min
Nudie Reads Lennie Lower [S1E29]
Lennie Lower was Australia's 'Charlie Chaplin of words' a humourist from the 1930s and 40s whose wry observances of Oz life and attitudes brought joy to all who read him. He died too young but left be...
25 Apr 202116min
