Nudie Reads

Bibendum = The Michelin Man: beloved mascot of Michelin tyres. Did you know the original Michelin Guides were free and focussed on motoring? And did you know there were special editions created after ...

22 Apr 202110min

A bonus episode to celebrate the birthday of Rome - 21 April 753 BC. A recipe from the oldest cookbook in the world - Apicius De Re Coquinaria. You can guess which one. 🇮🇹 🐭 Get in touch: Email: n...

21 Apr 20215min

Edgar Wallace, from Kent in England, was such a prolific writer of detective thriller pulp fiction it got him published in Italy and given the sweet job of developing the 1933 King Kong movie. He earn...

18 Apr 202120min

The first ever US National Soap Box Derby was run 1934. In 1973 the Derby was rocked by scandal. A documentary on the topic was made at the time and its transcript is charming. Great sports writing is...

15 Apr 202118min

Who doesn't love a detective novel with a locked room mystery to puzzle out. From Edgar Allan Poe to John Dickson Carr locked room mysteries are a popular niche of fictional detection. Carr wrote beau...

11 Apr 202121min

Songs can be poems. We know this because the Nobel committee for Literature gave the 2016 award to songwriter Bob Dylan. But not all poets agree. An alternative view from a poet and, as you might expe...

8 Apr 202115min

There's more than 1 hunchback in the literary canon. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the best loved, of course, by Victor Hugo. And Rigoletto, the hunchback court jester of Verdi's opera of the same na...

4 Apr 202122min

As London reeled from the gruesome work of Jack The Ripper in 1888 one journalist - no longer known - made a powerful effort to write beautifully about the horror. Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gma...

1 Apr 202112min