Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-11-14
Books mentioned on Part One: Lord Aspinall: The Gambling King of London
Robert sits down with Ed Zitron to talk about Lord Aspinall and his gambling buddies, who ruled London high society with an iron fist and also did a murder. (2 part series) See omnystudio.
Robert Evans discussed The passion of John Aspinall by Brian Masters, The Gamblers by John Pearson, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling, and Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The passion of John Aspinall
Discussed“one of them is this fawning 1988 book by Brian Masters that's literally titled The Passion of John Aspen”
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The Gamblers
The Gamblers by John Pearson is a biographical and historical work exploring figures such as the eccentric gambler John Aspinall.
Discussed“the other biography I read about him is a 2007 book called The Gamblers by John Pearson”
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K.
Discussed“Americans will be familiar with the bones of this if they've read the Harry Potter books because the system of like prefects and head boys and [ __ ] and like the Magic School in that book series is a sanitized version of how culture works in these in these like boarding schools”
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Nada the Lily
Discussed“John's favorite book by Haggard was called notada The Lily and it's this book about the Zulu King Shaka”
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