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Cup and Nuzzle Audiobooks

The Cultural Tutor's Grand Tour: the story of Europe told through six cities

1 audiobook reviewed

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Classics & Heritage

About Cup and Nuzzle

Six cities, four hours, one continent’s worth of story. The Cultural Tutor’s Grand Tour: The Story of Europe in Six Cities carries the Cup and Nuzzle name in our catalogue, and that name belongs to the production rather than to an author in the conventional sense. The presenting voice and the guiding intelligence throughout is Sheehan Quirke, known to a very large online audience as The Cultural Tutor.

The method is the old Grand Tour rebuilt for the ear. Pick a city, find the detail everyone walks past, then pull on it until an entire history comes loose: a lamp post, a cup of coffee, a love affair with consequences nobody intended. Our shelves file the title under classics and heritage, and the label fits, though the manner is closer to a brilliant friend walking you round a square than to anything academic.

Cup and Nuzzle in audiobooks

The recording runs a little over four hours in Quirke’s own performance, and that is a considerable part of the appeal. The enthusiasm is genuine, and the pacing is that of someone who has told these stories aloud before.

Four hours makes it an ideal companion for the journey to the place itself, or for an afternoon when you want to travel without moving. It is a recent release, so listener scores have yet to settle. Play a sample and let the first city make the decision for you. The audiobook is below.