The Digested Read podcast

The Guardian

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

Episodes

EL James: black and blue and read all over? – books podcast

Michel Houellebecq: profane or prophetic? – books podcast

TS Eliot: beyond commentary? – books podcast

Kazuo Ishiguro: roaring giant or sleeping dragon? – books podcast

Harper Lee: a happy return to Maycomb? – books podcast

Hillary Clinton: the big reveal? – books podcast

Haruki Murakami: Cult of the colourless? - books podcast

Val McDermid: Jane Austen's equal? - books podcast

Caitlin Moran: all about the girl, again - books podcast

Martin Amis: back in the danger zone? - books podcast

Stephen Fry: low tales of the high life - books podcast

Karl Ove Knausgaard : Proust or poseur? - books podcast

Russell Brand: the raffish revolutionary - books podcast

Iain Banks: a death foretold? - books podcast

JK Rowling: a question of identity – books podcast

Roddy Doyle: gutsy performance or needs more commitment? – books podcast

Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath – books podcast

TS Eliot: giant of poetry or literary obsessive? – books podcast

Morrissey's autobiography: vain or glorious? – books podcast

Richard Dawkins: intellectual titan or tiresome self-publicist? – books podcast