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Mysteries past and present

Posted by Words At Large Admin on February 06 at 12:00 AM

Mysteries past and present are the topic of this week's podcast. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of G.K.Chesterton's mystery "The Man Who Was Thursday" Penguin Books has reprinted it along with John Buchan's thriller "The 39 Steps".

CBC Radio's Talking BOoks panel discusses whether these two classics have stood the test of time.
Plus we put our ear to the door to hear some of the early comments from this year's CANADA READS panelists. As they warm up for the debates starting on Feb.25th each of the five celebrity contenders must get their most passionate arguments prepared.

Check it out!

Comments

Re: Mysteries
Past and Present

Your panel seems totally ignorant to the fact that the 2 books discussed (and the other 4 in the Penguin Series) are not totally obscure, but have generally been continuously in print, in one form or another, since they were published! This appears to reflect some merit exiting in these works.

They also appear to have no idea of Buchan's greatest literary contribution to Canada: he founded the the Governor General's Awards in the late 1930s. "Was he a good governor general?" Indeed!

David Rowe
Orillia

Posted by: David Rowe | February 7, 2008 02:31 PM

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