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Eleanor & Alasdair Read ThatWe Read Alice's Adventures in WonderlandWe're all mad here. Specifically, Eleanor is mad about people saying Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on drugs and Alasdair is mad about the Tim Burton film being rubbish. For this episode, we read Carroll's enormously influential 1865 novel, and we asked: do books actually need plots? Or will some 160 year-old puns do?
Content Warning: We make allusions to the controversy surrounding Carroll, without going into detail.
2025-07-1936 min
Eleanor & Alasdair Read ThatWe Read The Secret GardenSickly, spoiled and terrified of the outside world, Eleanor and Alasdair read The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett's kidlit classic is the story of an obnoxious little girl who goes to Yorkshire on her gap year and really finds herself. Is the book an ode to the healing powers of nature? Or is it a hippy-fascist self-help tract? And which film adaptation is best — the one Eleanor watched as a kid, or the steampunk Mormon version?
Content Warning: References to ableism and British colonialism. And we inaccurately describe Yorkshire as "a big county" when it is, in fa...2025-06-1934 min
Eleanor & Alasdair Read ThatWe Read The Weirdstone of BrisingamenLike a pair of creepy twins, Eleanor and Alasdair venture up Alderley Edge to meet the Wizard. We read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Alan Garner's 1960 folk horror classic. Is it too scary for kids, or just too scary for Alasdair? Did Eleanor really fall asleep at the end of the audiobook? And what, exactly, does a rustic Cheshire accent sound like?
We simply don't know.
2025-05-1934 min
Eleanor & Alasdair Read ThatWe Read The WitchesEleanor and Alasdair read a Roald Dahl book about some absolutely horrid women. "Which one?" you quite reasonably ask. It's The Witches: a grotesquely funny revenge caper fuelled by 'stranger danger' anxiety. What do you do when a beloved children's author is a bit of a bigot? Which of Dahl's books scandalised nine-year-old Eleanor's schoolteacher? And exactly what accent was Anne Hathaway doing in the movie? Listen, and find out if The Witches really is a revolting classic or just a rotten stinker.
Content Warning: References to antisemitism, misogyny & fatphobia. And we do impressions of the actor...2025-04-1938 min
Eleanor & Alasdair Read ThatWe Read Peter RabbitEleanor and Alasdair read The Tale of Peter Rabbit, the story of a semi-nude rabbit tormenting the Scotsman who killed his father. Beatrix Potter's first book was a world-wide smash hit, but is it actually good? And would it be improved by the addition of James Corden? Alasdair watched the movie, so you don't have to.
Content Warning: Eleanor calls Squirrel Nutkin a c***.
2025-03-1931 min
Eleanor & Alasdair Read ThatWe Read Treasure IslandHa harr! Eleanor and Alasdair read Treasure Island by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who is Scottish. Treasure Island is a tale of deadly danger and dubious male role models — basically like social media today. It's a very famous story, but is it actually good? Will Jim Hawkins's adventure buckle your swashes? And is fifteen men on a dead man's chest just good maritime fun? Or a health and safety nightmare?
2025-02-1930 min
Eleanor & Alasdair Read ThatWe Read The Famous FivePutting the ginger in ginger beer, Eleanor and Alasdair read Five Go To Demon's Rocks by Enid Blyton. The Internet Famous Two join some posh children and a dog on an incredibly dangerous and wholly unsupervised adventure. Does Enid Blyton deserve her controversial reputation? Will the kids survive a week in an abandoned lighthouse? And are all working class people also smugglers?
2025-01-1933 min
Eleanor & Alasdair Read ThatWe Read The Hobbit - Pilot EpisodeEleanor and Alasdair read The Hobbit. J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel is a millennial horror story about a guy who has to attend an unexpected party. It's also a children's fantasy classic, and the inspiration for three obscure art-house films. But is it good? Would Eleanor read it to her hypothetical child? Will Alasdair enjoy reading it for the first time? And is it really possible to tell the dwarves apart?
2024-12-2030 min
Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Literature, Comedy, Satire & ParodyThe News Quiz 2023: The Complete Series 110, 111 and 112: The topical BBC Radio 4 panel show by TbdPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695789to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The News Quiz 2023: The Complete Series 110, 111 and 112: The topical BBC Radio 4 panel show
Series: Part of The News Quiz
Author: Tbd
Narrator: Andy Zaltzman, Various
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Release date: December 14, 2023
Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody
Publisher's Summary:
All three series of the award-winning satirical news show from 2023 Originally conceived as a one-off whimsy, The News Quiz is now in its 46th year and still going strong. In these 26 shows, host Andy Zaltzman gathers up handfuls of headlines and hurls them at the panellists, who promptly fling b...2023-12-1412h 17
Loremen PodcastLoremen S3 Ep36 - Eleanor Morton - Major Weir, EdinburghEdinburgh's roll-call of villains is long, crooked and rotten. Like the worst banana. And Major Weir is one of the nastiest. Thomas Weir aka "Angelic Thomas" did not live up to that nickname, as you will soon discover.
Eleanor Morton, Edinburgh native, comedian and mystery enthusiast, joined the Loremen livestream to get to the bottom of this devil of a fellow. Stay tuned after the credits to hear a horror story from James's real life. It is in the top three most disgusting stories he's told on the pod.
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