All of the Backlisted team are taking a summer break this week so we are putting out one of our classic early episodes with a new introduction.

Slang lexicographer extraordinaire Jonathon Green joins John and Andy in this episode to discuss Absolute Beginners, the classic novel of London teenage life set around Soho and Notting Hill, by Colin MacInnes.

Back in a fortnight with a normal show, thanks all,
J + A + N x

Books mentioned
Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners, City of Spades
Jonathon Green - Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Days In the Life: Voices from the English Underground, Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made, Odd Job Man: Some Confessions of a Slang Lexicographer
Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
Paul Kingsnorth - Beast, The Wake
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Derek Raymond - The Crust on its Uppers
Tony Gould - Inside Outsider: The Life and Times of Colin MacInnes
Dominic Sandbrook - Never Had it So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles