Banned Library Podcast show

Banned Library Podcast

Summary: The worst library podcast on the Internet. Evan and Halbert discuss a range of topics from movies, television, library news and random topics.

Podcasts:

 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:00

Ralph Ellison's groundbreaking story about a boy becoming a man is discussed in part and we go into characters in fiction that have no name.

 Lord of the Flies by William Golding | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:23

Our humanity is building the hope that we are better than we are.

 Animal Farm by George Orwell | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:15:00

Today we learn about the classic tale of animal rights and a few more books that were meant for adults but given to children.

 Blubber by Judy Blume | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:12:37

Bullies abound in Judy Blume's Blubber and on our top ten list of the best bullies in literature.

 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:56:09

The story of man who feels all is not right with the world. Then he finds out how wrong the world really is.

 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:15:50

A story about an old miser time traveling and changing his ways based on threats and punishment rather than good will.

 Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:16:01

One boy's climb from apartheid to tennis champion.

 Arming America by Michael Bellasiles | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:17:15

A discredited book that means little in terms of banned books.

 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:39

Welcome to the world that is brave and new with drugs and violence! What's gonna happen?

 Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:31:57

The "new" host Harker reads today as Georgia learns a lot, especially about boys and pooping.

 Pirates Alley - Big Easy Podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:17:40

A great place to begin looking at the people, places, and things of New Orleans is Pirates Alley. Here you can get a drink next to a cathedral, tour a museum and old courthouse, and buy a book from William Faulkner's old home while on the lookout for pirate ghosts!

 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:36:44

Like sands through the hourglass, these are snows falling on cedars. This story is so full of racial drama and the sex!

 Body in the Wall by ST Harker | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:43

Not a banned book but a story about a cook who hated raccoons.

 We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:29:38

A group of boys trash a house and nearly kill a girl, and that's just in the first few paragraphs. Book was banned for alcohol, violence, and sexual content.

 The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:29:58

Very little talk about the book and way more talk about bathrooms and a dog.

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