The Penguin Podcast: Urban Tales feat. Paul French, Dubliners and Greg Baxter




The Penguin Podcast show

Summary: We’ve travelled across the globe to famous cities for this Urban-themed podcast. Paul French tells us about his extraordinary book, Midnight in Peking, taking us to the the capital city of Beijing and an audio extract from James Joyce's classic short story, Araby, from Dubliners brings us back to North Richmond Street in Dublin. What's more, Greg Baxter reads an extract and talks to us about his new book The Apartment, where he alludes to "an old European capital", which described so richly yet never named.