679. Gill's Book Club: A Gentleman In Moscow

Here it is, finally! The long-awaited episode 1000. It has taken me weeks to finish this. If you listen, you will understand why it has taken so long! This is a celebration of this podcast after 17 years and 1000 episodes. It includes a lot of rambling, an interview with my broth ...  Show more

Back by popular demand, here is another Sherlock Holmes mystery for episode 999. How will Watson deal with his mini-mission to an opium den, before joining Holmes on one of his most singular cases so far, attempting to solve the disappearance of a gentleman and the suspicious inv ...  Show more

What if thirty years of history took place JUST beyond the doors of your hotel? And what if you weren't allowed to leave that hotel? And, get this, the hotel is in Moscow. The beloved bestseller A Gentleman in Moscow fills its historical fiction with charming characters that you ...  Show more

You've always had a secret affinity for borscht, and a secret compulsion to buy nesting dolls at neighborhood garage sales. Enter this lesson, where we transport you to the land that gave us Zhivago, caviar, perogie-making babushkas (bless their souls), and huge fur hat sp ...

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Дома в Москве уже всё было по-зимнему. | In Moscow, everything was already wintery.

 Топили печи, и по утрам, когда дети собирались в гимназию и пили ча ...

We read The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov this month. Also discussion about Quarantine movies and best movie trailers.