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Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies

Novel by Evelyn WaughWikipedia

Search complete. 9 mentions across 1 episode found for "Vile Bodies".

Aug 18, 2026

Angelina StanfordHOST
9:59
It just hit the spot.
Angelina StanfordHOST
10:00
I immediately ended that and started Vile Bodies, which was his second satire that he wrote.
Angelina StanfordHOST
10:05
Actually, in the introduction to it he says that Decline and Fall was his first novel and that it was received with great critical success but didn't really have a commercial success, and Vile Bodies was the first book to have a commercial success.
Angelina StanfordHOST
10:18
Um, Vile Bodies I referenced, if you guys listened to the series we did on Dorothy Sayers' Murder Must Advertise, because she is also writing about the bright young things.
Thomas BanksHOST
10:28
Mm-hmm.
Angelina StanfordHOST
10:28
The, the, the, the teenage, young adult life, uh, of people in between World War I and World War II, and Vile Bodies is about that same group of people.
Angelina StanfordHOST
10:38
And in the introduction he said he thought it was just people's fascination with the bright young things and the slang he was introducing, um, that-
Thomas BanksHOST
10:44
Yeah, it did introduce a couple of catchphrases into the, uh-

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