A podcast about novels that have changed men's lives, with @jackaldane
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Jun 12
🎧 FIRST EPISODE IS UP!
@jackaldane’s first guest to set down his torch on The Lit Path is TV writer, producer and author @johnyorke123.
They discuss how Gulliver’s Travels changed fiction forever in John’s mind, and why, 300 years after it was published, Swift remains humanity’s greatest heckler.
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Jun 14
New episodes of @thelitpathpod to be announced very soon! Couldn’t be happier to have @johnyorke123 join me at the start, with a love letter to Gulliver’s Travels.
Updates via the Substack thelitpath.substack.com/
Jun 13
Listen to the man who masterminded some of British TV’s most iconic dramatic plot twists, @johnyorke123, explain to @jackaldane how being left on a cliffhanger as a boy sparked a new relationship to reading fiction.
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Jun 13
Listen to the man who masterminded some of British TV’s most iconic dramatic plot twists, @johnyorke123, explain to @jackaldane how being left on a cliffhanger as a boy sparked a new relationship to reading fiction.
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Jun 13
Listen to the man who masterminded some of British TV’s most iconic dramatic plot twists, @johnyorke123, explain to @jackaldane how being left on a cliffhanger as a boy sparked a new relationship to reading fiction.
🔗 to Ep#1 in replies.
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Jun 12
My friend Jack is launching an excellent new podcast, give it a listen!
Jun 12
🎧 FIRST EPISODE IS UP!
@jackaldane’s first guest to set down his torch on The Lit Path is TV writer, producer and author @johnyorke123.
They discuss how Gulliver’s Travels changed fiction forever in John’s mind, and why, 300 years after it was published, Swift remains humanity’s greatest heckler.
📺 🔗 in replies.
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Some of the novels which have had the biggest impact on me over the years (and which I never tire of revisiting).
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Jun 12
🎧 FIRST EPISODE IS UP!
@jackaldane’s first guest to set down his torch on The Lit Path is TV writer, producer and author @johnyorke123.
They discuss how Gulliver’s Travels changed fiction forever in John’s mind, and why, 300 years after it was published, Swift remains humanity’s greatest heckler.
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Jun 12
🎧 FIRST EPISODE IS UP!
@jackaldane’s first guest to set down his torch on The Lit Path is TV writer, producer and author @johnyorke123.
They discuss how Gulliver’s Travels changed fiction forever in John’s mind, and why, 300 years after it was published, Swift remains humanity’s greatest heckler.
📺 🔗 in replies.
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🚨EPISODE #1 DROPS THIS FRIDAY!🚨
@jackaldane is joined at the beginning of The Lit Path by storytelling sage @johnyorke123 to discuss 📚GULLIVER'S TRAVELS by Jonathan Swift📚, the novel that redefined the point of reading for John, and which remains his greatest literary adventure to this day.
Get ready to celebrate the novel's 300th birthday in this first of many conversations to come about men, reading, and the power of fiction.
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Jun 11
Shuggie Bain author @Doug_D_Stuart : ‘Men aren’t reading Novels. It hurts us all.’
inews.co.uk/culture/books/sh…
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I bet Mark Hussey would be up for doing an episode about Mrs Dalloway! DM us if of interest.
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Jun 9
This Friday, @johnyorke123 and I begin a conversation within a conversation about why so many men overlook the power of the novel, and why Gulliver's Travels still has it in gigantic fistfuls, 300 years after it was first published.
Join us then on the first episode of @thelitpathpod.
🚨EPISODE #1 DROPS THIS FRIDAY!🚨
@jackaldane is joined at the beginning of The Lit Path by storytelling sage @johnyorke123 to discuss 📚GULLIVER'S TRAVELS by Jonathan Swift📚, the novel that redefined the point of reading for John, and which remains his greatest literary adventure to this day.
Get ready to celebrate the novel's 300th birthday in this first of many conversations to come about men, reading, and the power of fiction.
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Jun 7
Stupidly I’ll tell you my top 10. I mean this is off the top of my head
Middlemarch
Emma
Rabbit (seen as one book written over four decades by Updike - which is possibly a cheat but hey)
1984
Ulysses
Pride And Prejudice
Animal Farm
Metamorphosis
White Teeth
The Heart Of The Matter
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I keep wanting to write down MY FIVE FAVOURIT NOVELS which are
1 the diary of a nobody
2 Jilly Cooper Riders
3 Joseph und Seine Brüder
4 What Ho Jeeves
5 More Women Than Men
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What is it with these men about my age who say they never read fiction any more? Why? Does this seem like a reasonable thing to say?
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