The Digested Read podcast show

The Digested Read podcast

Summary: 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

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Podcasts:

 Grow Your Own Drugs by James Wong | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:07

John Crace fails to get healed, or high

 Generation X by Douglas Coupland | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:44

John Crace gets deep and meaningless

 Glover's Mistake by Nick Laird | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:29

John Crace is enslaved by his id

 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:38

John Crace makes a quick investigation of the noir masterpiece

 God Bless America by Piers Morgan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:50

Piers Morgan swans around America; John Crace chases after him

 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:08:04

Tantric bliss, Brian Ferryman and lots and lots of "om". John Crace takes up the lotus position and transcends his destiny

 Stanley, I Presume by Stanley Johnson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:01

John Crace enters the spiffing world of Boris maximus

 The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:02

John Crace laughs in the face of bourgeois convention and becomes rapidly depraved

 Strangers by Anita Brookner | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:03

John Crace is quickly overcome with melancholy

 Enduring Love by Ian McEwan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:53

John Crace tumbles through a ballooning nightmare

 Men Are Stupid ... and They Like Big Boobs by Joan Rivers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:53

John Crace plunges in to plastic surgery

 The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:09:03

John Crace goes down with existential ennui in Africa

 All the Nice Girls by Joan Bakewell | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:05

John Crace whizzes through a wartime romance

 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:40

John Crace is seduced by this classic tale of forbidden love

 The Victorians by Jeremy Paxman | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:05

John Crace (aggressively) questions the grand inquisitor's study of history

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