{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/60c1f183fb410600123a96ef/6319e0294b295e00147fe369?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 28 - Lolita","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60c1f183fb410600123a96ef/1625855109134-984fd45d7e7f674b153560511f959cb0.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our twenty-eighth episode, we court controversy with Vladimir Nabokov's surreal paedophile road trip, <em>Lolita </em>(1955). It's got more unreliable narration, 1950s consumerism, and untranslated French than you can stomach. </p><p><br></p><p>Cover art © Catherine Wu.</p><p><br></p><p>Episode theme: Tchaikovsky's 'Serenade for Strings', covered by Freddy Martin and his Orchestra</p>","author_name":"Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith"}