Tea or Books? #25: to adapt or not to adapt, and To The North vs The House in Paris

Elizabeth Bowen and novels adapted into films – though not in conjunction…   In the first half of this podcast, we discuss novels adapted into films – and whether or not we would like our favourite novels to be adapted

Elizabeth Bowen and novels adapted into films – though not in conjunction…

In the first half of this podcast, we discuss novels adapted into films – and whether or not we would like our favourite novels to be adapted into films – along with our takes on many different films we’ve seen. (By the by, do go and listen to my brother’s films podcast, The C to Z of Movies, which you can also find on iTunes.)

In the second half, we pit two Elizabeth Bowen novels against each other: To The North and The House in Paris, and I get into a mess trying to work out what I think of her. I’d love to hear what Bowen fans (and antifans) think of these books.

Listen in the player above, or a podcast app, or visit our iTunes page. Sorry for slightly lower quality than usual – we spoke for so long that the file size was too big for the usual quality!

Here are the (many!) novels and authors we mention in this episode:

The Dover Road by A.A. Milne (on at the Jermyn Street Theatre)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles

Persuasion by Jane Austen

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson

To The River by Olivia Laing

One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

A History of England by Jane Austen

Emma by Jane Austen

High School Musical: the book of the film (so sorry)

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Sister Sister (look, I don’t know why I’m typing these out)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley

Submarine by Joe Dunthorne

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

The Ghost and Mrs Muir by R.A. Dick

Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert Jenkins

Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day by Winifred Watson

Beryl Bainbridge

The Cazalet Chronicle by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White (The Lady Vanishes)

‘The Birds’ by Daphne du Maurier

To The North by Elizabeth Bowen

The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen

Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett

The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Muriel Spark

Friends and Relations by Elizabeth Bowen

Family and Friends by Anita Brookner (is what I meant!)

The Little Girls by Elizabeth Bowen

A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen

The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen

The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen