The Digested Read podcast

By The Guardian

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Episodes: 100

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A podcast version of John Crace's wickedly satirical Guardian column, lampooning the literary style of leading authors by summarising their books in five minutes

Episode Date
EL James: black and blue and read all over? – books podcast
Dec 31, 2015
Michel Houellebecq: profane or prophetic? – books podcast
Dec 30, 2015
TS Eliot: beyond commentary? – books podcast
Dec 29, 2015
Kazuo Ishiguro: roaring giant or sleeping dragon? – books podcast
Dec 28, 2015
Harper Lee: a happy return to Maycomb? – books podcast
Dec 25, 2015
Hillary Clinton: the big reveal? – books podcast
Jan 02, 2015
Haruki Murakami: Cult of the colourless? - books podcast
Jan 01, 2015
Val McDermid: Jane Austen's equal? - books podcast
Dec 31, 2014
Caitlin Moran: all about the girl, again - books podcast
Dec 30, 2014
Martin Amis: back in the danger zone? - books podcast
Dec 29, 2014
Stephen Fry: low tales of the high life - books podcast
Dec 26, 2014
Karl Ove Knausgaard : Proust or poseur? - books podcast
Dec 25, 2014
Russell Brand: the raffish revolutionary - books podcast
Dec 24, 2014
Iain Banks: a death foretold? - books podcast
Dec 31, 2013
JK Rowling: a question of identity – books podcast
Dec 30, 2013
Roddy Doyle: gutsy performance or needs more commitment? – books podcast
Dec 29, 2013
Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath – books podcast
Dec 28, 2013
TS Eliot: giant of poetry or literary obsessive? – books podcast
Dec 27, 2013
Morrissey's autobiography: vain or glorious? – books podcast
Dec 26, 2013
Richard Dawkins: intellectual titan or tiresome self-publicist? – books podcast
Dec 24, 2013
Bridget Jones: today's heroine or yesterday's woman? – books podcast
Dec 23, 2013
The digested read podcast: The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
Feb 04, 2010
Must You Go? by Antonia Fraser
Feb 04, 2010
The digested classic podcast: The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
Jan 14, 2010
Digested classic podcast: Candleford Green by Flora Thompson
Jan 13, 2010
The digested read podcast: You Need The digested read podcast: This Book to Get What You Want by Mark Palmer and Scott Solder
Jan 13, 2010
The digested read podcast: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Jan 12, 2010
The digested read podcast: Driven to Distraction by Clarkson
Jan 12, 2010
Digested classic podcast: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Dec 03, 2009
Digested read podcast: Delia's Happy Christmas by Delia Smith
Dec 01, 2009
Digested read podcast: The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett
Nov 26, 2009
Digested classic podcast: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Nov 26, 2009
Digested classic podcast: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Nov 20, 2009
The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov
Nov 18, 2009
Digested read podcast: The Humbling by Philip Roth
Nov 17, 2009
Digested read podcast: Superfreakonomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
Nov 17, 2009
Digested read podcast: Meltdown by Ben Elton
Nov 13, 2009
Digested classic podcast: Call for the Dead by John Le Carré
Oct 23, 2009
The Defence of the Realm
Oct 23, 2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Oct 07, 2009
The Digested Read podcast: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Oct 02, 2009
Digested classic podcast: Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Oct 02, 2009
Digested classic podcast: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Oct 02, 2009
The Digested Read podcast: The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
Oct 02, 2009
The Digested Read podcast: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by William Shawcross
Sep 29, 2009
Digested classic podcast: Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Sep 11, 2009
The digested classic podcast: Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Aug 28, 2009
The Digested Read podcast: Starting Over by Tony Parsons
Aug 27, 2009
Digested classic podcast: Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Aug 21, 2009
Digested read podcast: The Occupied City by David Peace
Aug 19, 2009
Digested classic podcast: The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Aug 14, 2009
Digested read podcast: The Exmoor Files by Liz Jones
Aug 13, 2009
Digested read: Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
Aug 06, 2009
Digested classic podcast: The Immoralist by André Gide
Aug 03, 2009
Digested read podcast: The Game Cook by Norman Tebbit
Jul 30, 2009
Digested classic podcast: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig
Jul 24, 2009
Digested read podcast: Chastened by Hepzibah Anderson
Jul 22, 2009
The Digested Read podcast: The Hound of Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Jul 17, 2009
Digested read podcast: Magnificent Desolation by Buzz Aldrin
Jul 14, 2009
The digested classic podcast: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Jul 10, 2009
Digested read podcast: The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
Jul 07, 2009
Digested classic podcast: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Jul 03, 2009
Digested read podcast: To Heaven by Water by Justin Cartwright
Jul 02, 2009
A Champion's Mind by Pete Sampras
Jun 25, 2009
Digested classic podcast: Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Jun 19, 2009
Digested read podcast: I'm Only Being Honest by Jeremy Kyle
Jun 16, 2009
Digested classic podcast: Junky by William S Burroughs
Jun 12, 2009
Digested read podcast: Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
Jun 12, 2009
The Digested Classic podcast: Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Jun 05, 2009
John Crace reads his digested read of Sarah Waters
Jun 02, 2009
Digested Classic podcast: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
May 29, 2009
Digested Read: Voodoo Histories by David Aaronovitch
May 20, 2009
Herzog by Saul Bellow
May 15, 2009
Digested read podcast: Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
May 12, 2009
The digested classic podcast: More Pricks Thank Kicks by Samuel Beckett
May 08, 2009
Digested read podcast: Confucius From the Heart by Yu Dan
May 06, 2009
Digested classic podcast: Saturday Night, Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
May 01, 2009
Digested read: Under Their Thumb by Bill German
Apr 28, 2009
The Digested Classics: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Apr 28, 2009
Digested Read podcast: Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
Apr 22, 2009
The digested classic podcast: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Apr 17, 2009
Digested classic podcast: Generation X by Douglas Coupland
Apr 17, 2009
Grow Your Own Drugs by James Wong
Apr 14, 2009
The digested read podcast: Glover's Mistake by Nick Laird
Apr 08, 2009
The Digested Read podcast: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Apr 03, 2009
The digested read podcast: God Bless America by Piers Morgan
Mar 31, 2009
Siddhartha: Digested Classic
Mar 28, 2009
The digested read podcast: Stanley I presume by Stanley Johnson
Mar 24, 2009
The digested classic podcast: The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
Mar 14, 2009
The digested read podcast: Strangers by Anita Brookner
Mar 10, 2009
The digested read podcast: Enduring Love by Ian Mcewan
Mar 07, 2009
The digested read podcast: Men Are Stupid ... and They Like Big Boobs by Joan Rivers
Mar 03, 2009
The digested read podcast: The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Feb 28, 2009
The digested read podcast: All the Nice Girls by Joan Bakewell
Feb 24, 2009
The Digested Classic: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Feb 21, 2009
The digested read podcast: The Victorians by Jeremy Paxman
Feb 17, 2009
John Crace digests The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Feb 11, 2009
The digested read podcast: The Associate by John Grisham
Feb 10, 2009
The digested classic podcast: Success by Martin Amis
Feb 07, 2009
The digested read: The Last Supper by Rachel Cusk
Feb 03, 2009