Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast exploring the imaginative world of the author of A Clockwork Orange and 32 other novels.

Each episode will feature one of Burgess’s books, taking in both his fiction and his non-fiction. Among other subjects, we will discuss the origins of each work, its themes and its literary techniques.

At first glance, Burgess’s 1961 novel One Hand Clapping seems very different to everything else he wrote. It is narrated by Janet Shirley, a northern housewife who lives in a council house with her husband Howard. When Howard wins big money on a quiz show their lives change forever, but their newfound wealth brings corruption as well as glamour.

Join Andrew Biswell and Graham Foster as they head to the northern town of Bradcaster to discuss one of Burgess’s most unexpected novels.

Books mentioned in this episode

By Anthony Burgess:

• The Malayan Trilogy (1956-59)
• The Right to an Answer (1960)
• A Clockwork Orange (1962)
• Inside Mr Enderby (1963) included in The Complete Enderby
• Tremor of Intent (1966)
• Beard’s Roman Women (1976)
• Earthly Powers (1980)
• The Pianoplayers (1986)
• Little Wilson and Big God (1987)
• Byrne (1995)

By others:

• The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (1837)
• Look Back in Anger by John Osborne (1956)
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe (1958)
• One Hand Clapping, adapted by Lucia Cox (2015)

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