Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Ian Patterson, author of Books: A Manifesto , returns to Backlisted for a joyful discussion of Iris Murdoch and her sixteenth novel The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974), the winner of the Whitbread literary award for fiction. For reasons that will be obvious, the talk soon ...  Show more

Biographer and singer-songwriter Paul Thompson joins us for a new episode of Backlisted devoted to the life and work of Jake Thackray, the so-called 'Yorkshire chansonnier' who died in 2002. Thackray was a man of many talents, as demonstrated by Jake Thackray: The Unsung Writer, ...  Show more

Canadian International David Edgar is with us this week, talking through his time coming through ranks at Newcastle, signing for Owen Coyle at Burnley and the career threatening golf cart crash that nearly ended it all. 🤝Get £5 in free bets using code UTC5 when you sign up to B ...  Show more

We made it to Season 4! On today’s episode of That Was Us, we’re talking all about Season 4, Episode 1: Strangers. This episode weaves together the stories of three new characters: Cassidy, a soldier returning home from Afghanistan; Malik, a teenage father finding his way; and Ja ...  Show more

Responding to a special request from a listener, Jacke discusses Fyodor Dostoevsky, his novel The Brothers Karamazov, and the search for meaning in a meaningless world. This episode was originally released as episode #250 on October 7, 2020. For reasons Jacke discusses, it has no ...  Show more

🐉 THE EMPYREAN SERIES IS UPON US! ⚔️Welcome to Season 2 of Between Pages & Friends, a book club podcast hosted by two couples reading through your favorite fantasy series together.In today's episode, we're discussing chapters 1-8 of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (book one in the ...  Show more