Eleanor & Alasdair Read That
Episodes
We Read Johnny and the Bomb
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor and Alasdair step into the trousers of time, with Terry Pratchett's 1996 novel Johnny and the Bomb. Five inept British teens find themselves i...
We Read The Cat in the Hat & The Tiger Who Came to Tea
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
1957–1968 was a golden age of big cats breaking into kids' houses and smashing up the joint. For this episode, Eleanor & Alasdair read Dr Seuss'...
We Read The Wind in the Willows
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor and Alasdair are fighting! Eleanor is in love with Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, but for Alasdair... it's complicated. The 1908 c...
We Read The Borrowers
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
She's small. She's ginger. She's very hard to get out of your house. No, not Eleanor Morton. We're talking about Arietty Clock, the tiny teenage prota...
We Read The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Part 2)
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The stone table cracks and Eleanor & Alasdair return to Narnia. It's time to pass judgement on The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe. Eleanor sin...
We Read The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Part 1)
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Always-winter-but-never-Christmas starts earlier every year, doesn't it? Eleanor and Alasdair read C. S. Lewis's furniture-based children's classic Th...
We Read Watership Down
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor & Alasdair take you down to Watership City, where the grass is green and the girls are... hang on, where are all the girls? Â We read Wat...
We Read The Worst Witch
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A boarding school for witches? Imagine that! No, not Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Bigotry. We're talking about Miss Cackle's Academy, from Jill M...
We Read The Railway Children (Live)
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Railway Children is an Edwardian children's classic and health & safety nightmare. Edith "E" Nesbit's novel is packed with unforgettable chara...
We Read The Story of Tracy Beaker
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor and Alasdair read The Story of Tracy Beaker. Jacqueline Wilson's 1991 hit has spawned numerous sequels and TV spin-offs, but Alasdair has miss...
We Read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're all mad here. Specifically, Eleanor is mad about people saying Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on drugs and Alasdair is mad...
We Read The Secret Garden
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sickly, spoiled and terrified of the outside world, Eleanor and Alasdair read The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett's kidlit classic is the story...
We Read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Like a pair of creepy twins, Eleanor and Alasdair venture up Alderley Edge to meet the Wizard. We read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Alan Garner's 19...
We Read The Witches
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor and Alasdair read a Roald Dahl book about some absolutely horrid women. "Which one?" you quite reasonably ask. It's The Witches: a grotesquely...
We Read Peter Rabbit
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor and Alasdair read The Tale of Peter Rabbit, the story of a semi-nude rabbit tormenting the Scotsman who killed his father. Beatrix Potter's fi...
We Read Treasure Island
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ha harr! Eleanor and Alasdair read Treasure Island by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who is Scottish. Treasure Island is a tale of deadl...
We Read The Famous Five
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Putting the ginger in ginger beer, Eleanor and Alasdair read Five Go To Demon's Rocks by Enid Blyton. The Internet Famous Two join some posh children ...
We Read The Hobbit - Pilot Episode
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor and Alasdair read The Hobbit. J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel is a millennial horror story about a guy who has to attend an unexpected party. It...