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Secret Life of BooksKeeping Up Appearances with the Pooters: The Diary of A NobodyThis episode is a cheat. It's not a real published personal diary, but a satire on published diaries. It’s a fiction, but it’s a fiction that tells us a lot about fact. Published 1892, The Diary of a Nobody is about London clerk, Charles Pooter, his wife Carrie, his son William Lupin, and numerous friends and acquaintances. Most of all, it's about upwardly mobile lower middle class life in London at around the time of Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. But the Grossmiths showed a side of life and a kind of comedy those other writ...2025-07-221h 15
Since Attlee & ChurchillThe Attlee vs Churchill Elections (Episode 2 of 3): The 1950 General ElectionThe 1950 general election, the second contest between Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill, came four and a half years after Labour's landslide victory at the end of the Second World War. In many ways, this election was a referendum on the agenda implemented by Attlee as prime minister, from the NHS to the nationalisation of 20% of the economy. For Winston Churchill, 1950 was an opportunity to try and reclaim power after his shock rejection in 1945. Throughout, there was drama and the laying of the foundations for post-war British politics. In this podcast, Lee and Richard chart the election battle from the...2025-07-201h 04
Just ReadsGeorge and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a NobodyThe Diary of a Nobody is an 1892 English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine in 1888–89 and first appeared in book form, with extended text and added illustrations, in 1892.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.2025-06-1014 min
BacklistedThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue TownsendThe 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 Leicester's foremost teenage poet and intellectual was an overnight success, eventually going on to become the best-selling British novel of the 1980s. Four decades on, we can see it for what it truly is: a masterclass in the art of writing comic prose and a work of political satire that stealthily made its way into several million British homes. Nina, Andy, John and Nicky celebrate Sue Townsend's life and career...2025-05-271h 15
Seitenweise Glück#73: Packende Thriller von Hannah Ritchell und Riley Sager++ Mit Bücher-Verlosung ++ Spannung, Gänsehaut und dunkle Geheimnisse: In dieser Folge von „Seitenweise Glück“ dreht sich alles um zwei fesselnde Thriller die am Wasser spielen. Die Hosts Dörte und Hella besprechen dieses Mal: “Das Wochenende” der britischen Autorin Hannah Richell sowie “Lake - Das Haus am dunklen Ufer” vom amerikanischen Schriftsteller Riley Sager. ”Das Wochenende” von Hannah Richell: Sechs Freunde, ein luxuriöser Campingplatz an der Küste Cornwalls – und ein Geheimnis, das ans Licht kommt. Als ein Sturm aufzieht, verschwindet plötzlich eine von ihnen… “Lake - Das Haus am dunklen Ufer” von Riley Sager...2025-02-2136 min
Smith & Waugh Talk About SatireEP70. Satire Actually: Christmas with Stella Gibbons & The GrossmithsCome in, and know my satire, man! It is that time of year once again, when satire is all around you and you are cordially invited to the Smith & Waugh Festival Satirical Party! This year Jo and Adam take a look at the Christmassy satire of Stella Gibbons' Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm, the festive scenes in George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody and the contagious comedy of Nancy Mitford's Christmas Pudding. Jo also revisits a cherished Christmas story from her childhood and, of course, no Smith & Waugh Christmas would be complete without our very special, extremely...2024-12-181h 02
Just ReadsGeorge Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a NobodyMr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to mention his devil-may-care son Lupin with his unsuitable choice of bride. Try as he might, he cannot avoid life's embarrassing mishaps. In the bumbling, absurd, yet ultimately endearing figure of Pooter, the Grossmiths created an immortal comic character and a superb satire on the snobberies of middle-class suburbia - one which also sends up late Victorian crazes for spiritualism and bicycling, as well as the fashion for publishing...2024-11-2604 min
Immerse Yourself In This Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook — Perfect Before Bedtime.小人物日记/The Diary of a Nobody (English and Chinese Edition) by （英）乔治·格罗史密斯（George Grossmith）, 外研社编译组译Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/36060to listen full audiobooks.
Title: 小人物日记/The Diary of a Nobody (English and Chinese Edition)
Author: （英）乔治·格罗史密斯（George Grossmith）, 外研社编译组译
Narrator: Lester King
Format: mp3
Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
Release date: 10-07-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 9 ratings
Genres: Classics
Publisher's Summary:
Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith. The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a "Somebody"—Charles Pooter of 'The Laurels', Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London—and it chronicles in hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle class during the Great Victorian age.2024-10-074h 55Journey Through The Most Next-Level Full Audiobook Today!小人物日记/The Diary of a Nobody (English and Chinese Edition) by （英）乔治·格罗史密斯（George Grossmith）, 外研社编译组译Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/36060to listen full audiobooks.
Title: 小人物日记/The Diary of a Nobody (English and Chinese Edition)
Author: （英）乔治·格罗史密斯（George Grossmith）, 外研社编译组译
Narrator: Lester King
Format: mp3
Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
Release date: 10-07-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 9 ratings
Genres: Classics
Publisher's Summary:
Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith. The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a "Somebody"—Charles Pooter of 'The Laurels', Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London—and it chronicles in hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle class during the Great Victorian age.2024-10-074h 55
WodehousekeepingThe Swoop with Peter FalconerIan is joined by composer Peter Falconer, of the How I Hobby podcast, to look at The Swoop! or, How Clarence Saved England: A Tale of the Great Invasion (1909) a spoof of three separate Edwardian trends: invasion literature, the boy scout movement, and the music hall. Thanks again to madameeulalie.org. There will be spoilers.Content note: racismOther Wodehouse works mentioned:The Military Invasion of America (US version of the story)The Next InvasionEggs, Beans and CrumpetsThe Man UpstairsDo...2024-09-021h 13
Quick Book Reviews. Spoiler-free author interviews & book reviews.Read this book (please)!A bonus episode to celebrate Philippa’s best book of the year.“The Betrayal of Thomas True” by A J West,A J West recommends 3 books:A London Spy by Ned WardThree Sisters Three Queens by Philippa Gregory. Diary of a Nobody. By George and Weedon GrossmithThe Quick Book Reviews Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/533022350711635/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quick_book_reviewsThreads: @quick_book_reviewsTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@quickbookreviewsTwi...2024-08-1617 min
Undertowers PodcastEpisode 11: JB Jackson & ShagdukEpisode 11: JB Jackson & Shagduk
In this episode we interview JB Jackson, the author of Shagduk and the upcoming Ursula of Ulm, the second installment in the ongoing five book De re Dordica saga. We discuss his writing style and inspiration for Shagduk. Shagduk is an epistolary novel being written as a journal or diary and we dive deep into what writing in this style entails. We discuss some key touchpoints in Diary of a Nobody by Weedon Grossmith and George Grossmith and Satan Wants Me by Robert Irwin. We talk through his admiration for fantasy g...2024-08-011h 43
Literatura y Derecho (y más)Humor victorianoLas óperas de Gilbert y Sullivan o la novela de George Grossmith nos hablan con humor de los derechos humanos conquistados que deben defenderse.2024-06-0206 min
You're BookedSophie Kinsella - You're Booked Archive All-StarsWe're heading back into the extensive YB archives to bring you one of our favourite episodes from yesteryear. This week we’re in Central London – home of some of the greatest shops in the world and our guest, the multimillion selling superstar novelist Sophie Kinsella! Sophie is the author of over 30 books, including novels, children’s books and her hit Shopaholic series, and she’s as prolific a reader as she is a writer. Her latest is massive bestseller The Burnout. We talked to Sophie about PG Wodehouse, Jilly Cooper, sex, jokes, bums and why she ended up buying four cop...2024-04-0157 min
Smith & Waugh Talk About SatireEP60. Satire Lads, Lads, Lads: Gregg, Gulliver & The Grossmiths (& A.I.)Jo and Adam celebrate their 60th episode by each taking a deep dive into a work of satire very deep to them but that they've never discussed at length on the podcast before. For Jo, it's the funniest book of all time, George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody (1892), which unleashed upon the world the character of Charles Pooter, the godfather of so many sitcom characters, ranging from Homer Simpson to Alan Partridge. And for Adam, it's Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, one of the most unfairly misrepresented texts in the literary canon thanks to almost immediate bowdlerization...2024-02-271h 06
Best Book ForwardThe joy of keeping a diary with Nina StibbeIn this episode I was delighted to be joined by Nina Stibbe; who’s latest book Went to London, Took the Dog is out 2 November and is such a brilliant read.I loved talking to Nina, and hearing her talk so patiently about her love of diaries has inspired me to try and keep my own diary. Nina’s Desert Island Book choices are:Black Beauty by Anna SewellMy Side of the Mountain by Jean George (currently out of print)Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue TownsendD...2023-12-071h 14
Audiobook TimeThe Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith ~ Full AudiobookThe Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith audiobook. The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acquaintances. It first appeared, serialised in Punch magazine and might be regarded as the first ‘blog’; being a record of the simplicities and humiliations in the life of this mundane, but upright, city clerk, who had an incontestable faith that a record of his daily life was worth preserving for posterity. Set in about 1891 in Holloway, which was then a typical suburb of the impecuniously respectable kind...2023-04-064h 21
Classic Audiobook CollectionThe Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith ~ Full AudiobookThe Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith audiobook. The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acquaintances. It first appeared, serialised in Punch magazine and might be regarded as the first ‘blog’; being a record of the simplicities and humiliations in the life of this mundane, but upright, city clerk, who had an incontestable faith that a record of his daily life was worth preserving for posterity.Set in about 1891 in Holloway, which was then a typical subu...2023-04-064h 30You're BookedKatherine May - You're BookedHurrah! This week we're featuring an author we've trying to tempt onto the show for ages. It's the brilliant Katherine May! Katherine is the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering which has been translated into twenty-five languages around the world, the acclaimed The Electricity of Every Living Thing and her new book Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age. She also hosts the podcast How We Live Now in which Katherine and her guests try to access wonder and joy in a world determined to elicit exhaustion and despair. We talked to Katherine about the brilliance of Jean Rhys...2023-03-061h 00
Novel ExperienceS4 Ep7 Ania Bas author of Odd HoursAnia Bas, artist and debut author of the darkly comic ODD HOURS, about a misanthropic supermarket check-out girl who is finding herself despite her awful job, her irritating friends, her chaotic family and her terrible love life.Ania chats about:her education in Poland and how her early television viewing was formativehow her career in visual arts led to writing and how it still informs her work.how she schedules non-negotiable writing timehow she dons and alter-ego while she is at her keyboard in order to overcome imposter syndromeher influences and how they have led to her enforcing...2023-02-141h 06
Simply StoriesEp28 Grossmith: Diary of a Nobody Chapters 1 and 2Diary of a NobodyA Popular Victorian Comedy by George and Weedon GrossmithA Victorian comedy detailing the slow derailment of a London clerk and his wife’s move to the country. This dry wit was very popular in its day! Getting to grips with the remodelling of the house, working with the new sometimes drunk tradesmen – all good fun! “He said he wouldn’t stay, as he didn’t care much for the smell of the paint, and fell over the scraper as he went out. Must get the scraper removed, or else I shall get...2022-12-2926 min
ShedunnitThe NobodiesClerks, shop assistants, secretaries, salespeople — we have lots to learn from the lower middle class characters of classic detective fiction.Thanks to my guest, Dr Nicola Bishop. Her book, Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture is published by Bloomsbury Academic.Find out more about this episode at shedunnitshow.com/thenobodies.To support the podcast, be part of a superb bookish community, and get two bonus episodes a month, become a member of the Shedunnit Book Club now at shedunnitbookclub.Mentioned in this episode:— The Diary of a Nob...2022-07-2718 min
(Old feed) Shedunnit Book Club — Seasoned DetectivesThe Nobodies (Ad Free)Clerks, shop assistants, secretaries, salespeople — we have lots to learn from the lower middle class characters of classic detective fiction. Thanks to my guest, Dr Nicola Bishop. Her book, Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture is published by Bloomsbury Academic. Mentioned in this episode: — The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith — The Suburbans by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland — "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot — The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie — After the Funeral by Agatha Christie — The...2022-07-2617 min
(Old Feed) Shedunnit Book Club — Amateur SleuthsThe Nobodies (Ad Free)Clerks, shop assistants, secretaries, salespeople — we have lots to learn from the lower middle class characters of classic detective fiction. Thanks to my guest, Dr Nicola Bishop. Her book, Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture is published by Bloomsbury Academic. Mentioned in this episode: — The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith — The Suburbans by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland — "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot — The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie — After the Funeral by Agatha Christie — The...2022-07-2617 min
Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for AdultsThe Diary Of A Nobody by George and Weedon GrossmithCan't sleep? Drift off tonight to the opening chapters of the comic novel, The Diary Of A Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith. Published in 1892, it follows the daily life of Charles Pooter, his wife, and his son over a period of 15 months. In this episode, Charles is late for work, entertains friends, and paints his bathtub red.Just Sleep Premium is coming soon!If you'd like to support the podcast, you can buy me a coffee here ------> buymeacoffee.com/justsleeppodIf you like this episode, please remember to f...2022-07-1534 min
Listen to Trending Full Audiobooks in Literature, Essays & AnthologiesThe Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith, Weedon GrossmithPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547010to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Diary of a Nobody
Author: George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
Narrator: Gildart Jackson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Release date: October 12, 2021
Genres: Essays & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Dive into the life of a normal man with a normal family in this humorous novel told in diary entries from one Charles Pooter: husband, father, and someone who experiences relatable social embarrassments and humiliations. As he chronicles a year in his life, he discusses his twenty-year-old son's foray into the dating scene, the couple's attempts at blending in with higher society...2021-10-124h 46
Transform Your Commute Into a Captivating Journey With Free AudiobookDiary of a Nobody Audiobook by George GrossmithListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 547010
Title: Diary of a Nobody
Author: George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
Narrator: Gildart Jackson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:46:51
Language: English
Release date: 10-12-21
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Classics
Summary:
Dive into the life of a normal man with a normal family in this humorous novel told in diary entries from one Charles Pooter: husband, father, and someone who experiences relatable social embarrassments and humiliations. As he chronicles a year in his life, he discusses his twenty-year-old son's foray into the dating scene, the couple's...2021-10-124h 46
Famous People You've Never Heard Of"The Funniest Book in the World" & How We adapted it for the Stage - with Tim Shaw & Andy Smith"The Diary of a Nobody" has long been a favourite book of both Tim Shaw and Andy Smith. They've seen it on stage, listened to it on the radio and, of course, read it.So one rainy August day in Edinburgh after seeing Rodney Bewes in his on man version of 3 Men in a Boat and over a small sherry or two they hit upon the idea of adapting Charles Pooter's diary into a one man play. Andy reprised his role as Pooter for the specially recorded version of the play for this podcast, And here he and...2021-07-1543 min
Famous People You've Never Heard OfThe Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith; adapted by Tim ShawThis season's audio drama is :The Diary of a Nobody, by George & Weedon Grossmith, said by Evelyn Waugh to be the "funniest book ever written".The book has never been out of print and is available at all good bookshops.This adaptation is by Tim Shaw. It is directed by Steve TaylorCharles Pooter - Andy SmithCarrie - Lottie WalkerLupin - Steve TaylorStudio Recording, Production & Editing- Harry JacobsAssisted by - Jacob TaylorMusic - James Hallhttps://www.jamesahall.co.uk/2021-07-0856 min
Famous People You've Never Heard OfThe Victorian Somebody - Stephen Wade talks about George GrossmithGeorge Grossmith created many of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic baritone roles and was known for his delivery of the famous patter songs.He was also a writer and composer who entertained royalty in the parlours of palaces and a journalist who spent time as a Bow Street Court reporter. And, together with his brother Weedon he was responsible for producing "The Diary of a Nobody", which has never been out of print. It was hailed by Evelyn Waugh as being the "funniest book ever written". And will be our audio drama for this series.Ste...2021-07-011h 04