Wuthering Heights
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Sep 12, 2026
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
At last when the time is ripe some connoisseur sees the picture, blows the dust off the book, and straightway blazons his discovery.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Mr. Swinburne, so to speak, blew the dust from Wuthering Heights.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
And now it keeps its proper rank in the shelf where Coleridge and Webster, Hoffman and Leopardi have their place.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Until then a few brave lines of welcome from Sidney Dobell, one fine verse of Mr. Arnold's, one notice from Mr. Reed, was all the praise that had been given to the book by those in authority.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
All the wildness of that moorland, all the secrets of those lonely farms, all the capabilities of the one tragedy of passion and weakness that touched her solitary life, she divined and appropriated.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
But not the life of the village at her feet, not the bustle of the mills, the riots, the sudden alterations of wealth and poverty, not the incessant rivalry of church and chapel.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
And while the West Riding has known the prototype of nearly every person and nearly every place in Jane Eyre and Shirley, not a single character in Wuthering Heights ever climbed the hills round Haworth.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Say the two foreigners have passed through Staffordshire, leaving us their reports of what they have seen.
Ray D'ArcyHOST
Seven and a half minutes of Celine Dion and Jim Steinman, glorious, glorious music.
Ray D'ArcyHOST
Yeah, it's a bit cheesy, but it's brilliant And Jim Steinman in an interview said that that song was inspired by the scene in Wuthering Heights when Heathcliff dances with Cathy's corpse on a beach.
Ray D'ArcyHOST
Yeah, I know.
Ray D'ArcyHOST
If you know anything about Wuthering Heights, you say, "I don't remember that." No, you don't remember it, 'cause it never happened.
Ray D'ArcyHOST
[laughs] But that's Jim Steinman for you.
Ray D'ArcyHOST
Yeah.
CodyHOST
I was thinking about this earlier today.
CodyHOST
I'm currently reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf, and I'm planning on doing a reread of Wuthering Heights, which Kate and I, and I think Luke, actually, I think all of us, Will couldn't be here, but I think all of us read that book earlier, either earlier this year or late last year.
CodyHOST
I can't even remember anymore.
CodyHOST
Late last year.
Heather ParryGUEST
But I think you're right.
Heather ParryGUEST
And I think...
Heather ParryGUEST
Number one, we must come back to the question of whether you read Wuthering Heights as a horror novel or not.
Heather ParryGUEST
I'll pay
Robin McGheeHOST
I think it's a fairly despairing film and that fits with what I said about how it's about how women's lives in that kind of society there was there is no happy ending there was no positive thing there can't be it's just shit and you just have to
Carolina SaludesHOST
welcome to the ministry of film yeah no for sure it is a gothic it is a gothic film right it is it could be a beautiful adaptation of a gothic novel like as it is it was an original script but it is very gothic in that way and um If you've read Rebecca Wuthering Heights, Dracula, Jane Eyre, they are films about female despair, about this sort of being trapped in as well, and this big feelings not being allowed in polite society.
Carolina SaludesHOST
So yeah, absolutely, it is very
Robin McGheeHOST
sad.
Robin McGheeHOST
The comparison with Wuthering Heights is very good, even the vibe of sort of the house on the hill sort of thing.
Robin McGheeHOST
Yeah.
Carolina SaludesHOST
Jane Campion was very inspired and you know in the year 2026 where we've had an adaptation of Wuthering Heights that absolutely butchered the source material it's quite nice and quite refreshing to talk about a film that doesn't that is actually quite kind of thematically truthful to Wuthering Heights in a way
Robin McGheeHOST
yeah I find it quite fascinating also for its depiction of New Zealand which now you know any sentient person is very, has a very sort of strong sense from watching the Lord of the Rings of New Zealand.
Joe HaddoHOST
And before we start the timer, Bobby, tell us the book that you're putting forward next.
Bobby PalmerGUEST
so in lieu of giving you three more minutes on shark heart which which deserves you know 333 minutes of praise i've gone for something a bit different uh i have chosen a book called wuthering heights by emily bronte
Joe HaddoHOST
all right three minutes on the clock then over to you to tell us about wuthering heights
Bobby PalmerGUEST
So I think we have a kind of pop culture version of what Wuthering Heights is.
Bobby PalmerGUEST
And I think that makes people think they won't like it.
Bobby PalmerGUEST
It's kind of misremembered.
Bobby PalmerGUEST
And it's kind of both of those things, but it's also so much more.
Bobby PalmerGUEST
I mean, Charlotte Bronte would tell you that it's all of those things.
KateHOST
However, the grief she felt undoubtedly found an outlet in her writing.
KateHOST
In Wuthering Heights, the theme of death, longing and emotional connections are deeply embodied in the characters' relationship.
KateHOST
The intense passion between Kathy and Heathcliff could be seen as a reflection of Emily's own inner turmoil.
KateHOST
Emily did not often express her grief openly, but through her writing she poured out her complex emotions surrounding loss.
Elaine BanderGUEST
And just this strange kind of choppy conversation.
Elaine BanderGUEST
Anyway, I put it aside, you know, it didn't have, it wasn't Wuthering Heights.
Elaine BanderGUEST
So I wasn't ready for it.
Elaine BanderGUEST
And then in my third year at university, where I was at McGill, where I was doing an English major, because I had been, I'd flunked out of the honors program.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Radio 750.
Alejandro DolinaHOST
[sintonía musical] "Cumbres Borrascosas".
Alejandro DolinaHOST
Yo me acuerdo de ese libro y me acuerdo también de cuando daban la novela por radio.
Patricio BartonHOST
Sí.
Alejandro DolinaHOST
Creo que ya no debe haber nadie en esta sala que comparta este recuerdo, porque hace mucho.
Alejandro DolinaHOST
Había un gran actor argentino que se llamaba Pedro López Lagar y ha-hizo durante mucho tiempo por radio la versión de "Cumbres Borrascosas", el libro de Emily Brontë.
Alejandro DolinaHOST
Y ahí empezó, cuando lo imitaban a Pedro López Lagar, lo hacían decir una sola palabra: [imitando] «¡Cathy, Cathy!».
Alejandro DolinaHOST
Y Cathy era la hermanastra.
Sarah SackeyfioHOST
yeah
TayunHOST
and then I have some other books that I've started and I'm not too sure if I'll get back to them for other reasons just because yeah so I did start the Odyssey both the Emily Wilson version and the Fitzgerald version I also did start a reread of The Tiger's Wife by Thea I think that's how you say your name or Brett and then Wuthering Heights was also on that list as well yeah it's Wuthering Heights because
Sarah SackeyfioHOST
Wuthering Heights um yeah so my book my you know in progress um TPD is also Death of the Author um I have Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card it's a reread I read it for the first time a long time ago and then the fifth season by N.K. Jemisin is the one I'm actively rereading right now um i did start weathering heights i didn't put it on the list because i got like 10 pages in um so yes it's probably not going to be completed this year
TayunHOST
same with me i think it was like it was an ambitious reread for me and then i was reading it i was like i'm not i'm not feeling it i'm not
Sarah SackeyfioHOST
feeling that's okay that's okay another time
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Sarah SackeyfioHOST
Yes.
Sarah SackeyfioHOST
Yes.
TayunHOST
Other books I'm reading? Honestly, I wouldn't really call the Odyssey and Wuthering Heights books that I'm currently in progress anymore.
Addy Du LacGUEST
...
Addy Du LacGUEST
Wuthering Heights, and like all the Brontës, and all that, and Austen.
Addy Du LacGUEST
I was reading that in middle school.
Andi JamesHOST
Right.
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