Tea or Books? #33: a Thomas twins crossover special!

C.S. Lewis, Meryl Streep, and Alfred Hitchcock! What do they have in common? They all appear in this special crossover episode – where Tea or Books? meets my brother’s podcast The C of Z of Movies.   That’s right –

C.S. Lewis, Meryl Streep, and Alfred Hitchcock! What do they have in common? They all appear in this special crossover episode – where Tea or Books? meets my brother’s podcast The C of Z of Movies.

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That’s right – Rachel agreed to sit this episode out, as did Col’s podcast partner Zijian, and we combined our two podcasts. In the first half, Colin talks about his reading tastes – and we look at The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis. Briefly. In the second half we pick our favourite and least favourite Meryl Streep films, and quiz each other on some Alfred Hitchcock films.

So, yes, this is all pretty shambolic. We had fun… hopefully you did too? Maybe? And Rachel and I will be back next time as normal – as Col will be on his podcast. His plot to steal all our listeners might just work. (Btw, if you want to join in our reading for next time, Messalina of the Suburbs by E.M. Delafield is very cheaply available on Kindle. A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse is not.)

You can find the iTunes page for Tea or Books? over here – many thanks for the reviews that I found! I didn’t realise you could only see reviews for your country unless you went hunting.

Here are the books – and films! – we talk about in this episode. In an effort to avoid some confusion, I’ve put the films in non-italics.

How Not To Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg

The Grasshopper King (I guess??) by Jordan Ellenberg

But What If We’re Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman

The Death of Noble Godavary by Vita Sackville-West

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Tune In: The Beatles by Mark Lewisohn

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Agatha Christie

The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis

The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis

Elena Ferrante

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton

Mistress Masham’s Repose by T.H. White

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Hours

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Stepbrothers

The Secret Garden

It’s a Boy/Girl Thing

She’s The Man

Life in a Day

Iris

La-La Land

Bridget Jones’s Baby

Trainwreck

The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

Sophie’s Choice

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

The Iron Lady

Death Becomes Her

Mamma Mia!

Prime

Lions For Lambs

Suffragette

Evening

Evening by Susan Minot (not Anne anything)

The Deer-Hunter

Manhattan

Kramer vs Kramer

Florence Foster Jenkins

Postcards From the Edge

Into The Woods

Notorious

Vertigo

Psycho

Rear Window

The Birds

Strangers on a Train

Spellbound

Shadow of a Doubt

Rope

Rebecca

Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton

The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton

Hacksaw Ridge

Marnie

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith

Throw Momma From The Train

Lawrence of Arabia

The Grapes of Wrath

Going My Way

Lifeboat

The Lost Weekend

On the Waterfront

The Apartment

Messalina of the Suburbs by E.M. Delafield

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