Kazuo Ishiguro
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Sep 23, 2026
Sophie VershbowHOST
I need to, like, prepare myself.
Sophie VershbowHOST
Um, this is an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel from 2021, same title, Klara and the Sun.
Sophie VershbowHOST
It's set in a dystopian future.
Sophie VershbowHOST
The story follows Klara, a really observant artificial friend who's a, you know, a robot, purchased to ease the loneliness and help heal the physical and mental ailments of a teenage girl.
CaitlinHOST
There was another author she wrote to.
CaitlinHOST
I think his name is, like, Kazuo Ishiguro or something like that.
CaitlinHOST
And, like, I think...
CaitlinHOST
I can't remember if we actually did it on the podcast or not, but I've read one of his books too.
RosikaHOST
oh although i have seen pictures of the fit she has been she has been posting pictures of her like office student attire business casual attire and it is far more business far more effort than you and i ever put in
KristenHOST
but jay your business is business thing all right okay she is on book three of dungeon crawler carl yay her thoughts on pod mission books kristen i totally get why you didn't like clara and the sun by kazuo ishiguro i think wow i pulled that right
RosikaHOST
out of
KristenHOST
your rear end good morning
VioletHOST
I don't know how many of these are nerdcore.
VioletHOST
Like, this Kazuo Ishiguro guy, does he do anime or manga or whatever that is? One
NatalieHOST
could assume.
NatalieHOST
That's the only kind of books I'm reading right now.
LauraHOST
To be honest, pretty much all of the books on this list are books that I have in my physical collection as well.
LauraHOST
And I have a number of Kazuo Ishiguro novels on my shelf that I've never read.
LauraHOST
So again, this one's pretty interchangeable for a number of books exclusively.
LauraHOST
It could be The Remains of the Day.
Nikki BediHOST
I'm Nikki Bady, bringing you a star-studded line-up of global guests and some cultural companionship with the best arts, entertainment and culture conversation from across the BBC and beyond.
Nikki BediHOST
Coming up, Australian movie star Hugh Jackman is playing Robin Hood in his latest film, a grittier and darker incarnation of the folklore hero than we've seen before, the Japanese-British Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Kazuo Ishiguro discusses what makes a good train film.
Nikki BediHOST
And the New Zealand author of Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason, is back with a new novel that explores obsession.
Nikki BediHOST
Also on the show, we'll hear from American actor Emmy Rosam, who stars in the TV series a lot of people around the world are talking about, Furious.
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Nikki BediHOST
So many movies, though, involve scenes of railway travel.
Nikki BediHOST
And train films have become almost a cinematic trope of their own.
Nikki BediHOST
The Japanese-British writer and Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro was recently invited to the British Film Institute to curate a season of his favourite train films, a personal obsession.
Nikki BediHOST
And his forthcoming novel is an homage to train-based thrillers of the 1930s.
John PistelliHOST
From today's topic, which will be Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
John PistelliHOST
of 1818 to Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 Never Let Me Go, two novels that have a certain something in common about 200 years apart.
John PistelliHOST
And in between, we will survey these vicissitudes of the English novel as it travels through those two tumultuous centuries and such movements in literature, culture, and the arts as romanticism, realism, modernism and post-modernism and then in december we will um do a three-week reading of charles dickens's great novel bleak house i did that out of the sequence because we're going to be doing one novel per episode um from frankenstein to never let me go but bleak house is a very long very large book and so it's going to require more episodes to cover and so we will do bleak house as we've done a number of the longer novels in the invisible college over a series of three episodes in the eminently dickensian season of that early winter in december and then uh in culmination just as last year We looked at Thomas Pynchon in a laid-back, casual, for-the-fans episode.
John PistelliHOST
We will do the same with A.S. Byatt's contemporary classic, Booker Prize-winning postmodern, anti-postmodern Fantasia about Victorian literature, which is Possession.
Paolo SironiGUEST
There's one element, for example, the one I want to light.
Paolo SironiGUEST
A wonderful book by Kazuo Ishiguro is Clara and the Sun, which is the story of this AA, which is an artificial friend, so a robot, that now is much involved in society and kids can have one, right, to play with when they're young and so forth.
Paolo SironiGUEST
And there are stories about that.
Paolo SironiGUEST
they might be thinking of using this AA, Clara, to replace a kid that is bound to die in a way that, you know, after the kid dies, you know, the robot will be there, right? And so we'll still be able to continue our relationship, mother and kid, father and kid, the right kid among kids, right? And the whole discussion is, you know, the way this robot sees the human experience from the inside the robot looking at the outside, which is the human world.
Danyl McLauchlanGUEST
I mean, you know, last time we talked about...
Danyl McLauchlanGUEST
What was it? Ishiguro.
Danyl McLauchlanGUEST
Ishiguro, yeah.
Danyl McLauchlanGUEST
So it came to Hannah Arendt.
Danyl McLauchlanGUEST
I mean, she would say exactly the same thing.
Jen Pollock MichelGUEST
Oh my goodness.
Jen Pollock MichelGUEST
But I'm trying to read through Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
Jen Pollock MichelGUEST
And that's not like, it's like I read two pages and then the next night I'm like, what happened
Grace HammondHOST
totally I mean that's a tough I read that in grad school that's a that's okay I found that to be a difficult book I have not read much Ishiguro because I did not love Never Let Me Go and I had a similar experience where I just had trouble like sinking my sort of tentacles into it like
Jen Pollock MichelGUEST
Yeah.
Jen Pollock MichelGUEST
My son read it for English this year, and he was like, I really want you to read it.
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