Main content

1922: Reader's Digest

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to Professor Sarah Churchwell and Victoria Bazin about the way reading habits and office conversation changed in the '20s.

Reader’s Digest magazine is celebrating its centenary this year. In the first of a series of features looking back at cultural milestones in 1922 – the year the ´óÏó´«Ã½ was founded – New Generation Thinker Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the history of the Reader’s Digest talking to Professor Sarah Churchwell and Dr Victoria Bazin.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod
You can find a playlist about books, art and philosophy from 1922 in a collection called Modernism on the Free Thinking programme website /programmes/p07p3nxh

Release date:

Available now

15 minutes

Featured in...

Podcast