This week, Lucy Lethbridge explains what a curate's eye is, and how ideas of British cooking range from Aga fantasies to bacon butties; and J. S. Barnes takes us to the dark side of the festive season, via Dickens and M. R. James....
'The British Cookbook: Authentic home cooking recipes from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland' by Ben Mervis
'To Be Read At Dusk: Dickens, ghosts and the supernatural', Charles Dickens Museum, London, until March 5, 2023
'The Witch Farm', BBC Radio 4 and Sounds
'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas', Nunkie Theatre Company, December 24, live online
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Patronizing writers of colour
Scavenger of eternal truths
Unsettled by Sontag
The recipe for superstardom
Is it too late?
What do the kids say?
'We should all be interested in pigeons...'
The most expensive mystery of all
How to be modern: conspiracy theory, free will and the avant-garde
‘We don’t know what he has, we don’t know what he’s done with it’
Nature for sale
Unromancing the Romantics
Loving Iris Murdoch
Who reads John Updike?
Talk to the hands
Summer Books 2019
Russian greats and fictional eats
Ethical economics
Weighty matters
Celestial Bodies – winner of the 2019 Man Booker International prize for fiction
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Exploring the National Parks
The Covert Narcissism Podcast
Greece Travel Secrets Podcast
Stuff You Should Know
Timcast IRL