
Vile Bodies
Novel by Evelyn WaughWikipedia
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Aug 18, 2026
Episode 342: Watership Down by Richard Adams, Ch. 21-30
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9:59Angelina StanfordHOST
It just hit the spot.
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10:00Angelina StanfordHOST
I immediately ended that and started Vile Bodies, which was his second satire that he wrote.
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10:05Angelina StanfordHOST
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.
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10:18Angelina StanfordHOST
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.
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10:28Thomas BanksHOST
Mm-hmm.
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10:28Angelina StanfordHOST
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.
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10:38Angelina StanfordHOST
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-
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10:44Thomas BanksHOST
Yeah, it did introduce a couple of catchphrases into the, uh-