46: Return to Kettle’s Yard
46: Return to Kettle’s Yard
Laura Freeman, chief art critic at The Times and author of Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists, and Kett... Read more
15 Jul 2023
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54mins
45: Ronald Blythe: A Life Well Written
45: Ronald Blythe: A Life Well Written
‘I would like to be remembered as a good writer and a good man . . . Writers are observers. We are natural lookers, watc... Read more
15 Apr 2023
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59mins
44: Jean Rhys: Voyages in the Dark
44: Jean Rhys: Voyages in the Dark
The writer Jean Rhys is best known for Wide Sargasso Sea, her haunting prequel to Jane Eyre, yet her own life would have... Read more
15 Jan 2023
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59mins
43: Dinner with Joseph Johnson
43: Dinner with Joseph Johnson
Bookseller, publisher, Dissenter and dinner-party host, Joseph Johnson was a great enabler in the late 18th-century lite... Read more
15 Oct 2022
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59mins
42: Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
42: Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
Paddy Leigh Fermor was just 18 when he set forth from the Hook of Holland, bound for the Golden Horn . . . Artemis Co... Read more
15 Jul 2022
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59mins
41: Barbara Pym and Other Excellent Women
41: Barbara Pym and Other Excellent Women
A latter-day Austen, an academic, a romantic, a comic, a caustic chronicler of the commonplace . . . The novelist Barbar... Read more
15 Apr 2022
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57mins
40: Adrian Bell: Back to the Land
40: Adrian Bell: Back to the Land
The farmer-cum-writer Adrian Bell is best-known for his rural trilogy of Suffolk farming life, Corduroy, Silver Ley and ... Read more
15 Feb 2022
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42mins
39: Idle Moments: Literary Loafers through the Ages and Pages
39: Idle Moments: Literary Loafers through the Ages and Pages
In the spirit of Plato’s Symposium, the Slightly Foxed team enter into lively dialogue with two distinguished magazine e... Read more
15 Jan 2022
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46mins
38: Literary Drinking: Alcohol in the Lives and Work of Writers
38: Literary Drinking: Alcohol in the Lives and Work of Writers
Booze as muse or a sure road to ruin? In this month’s episode, William Palmer – author of In Love with Hell: Drink in th... Read more
15 Dec 2021
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41mins
37: Rewriting the Script: The short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath with her acclaimed biographer Heather Clark
37: Rewriting the Script: The short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath with her acclaimed biographer Heather Clark
Heather Clark, Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield and author of the award-winning biogra... Read more
15 Nov 2021
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48mins