Podcasts by Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded book review magazine that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine.
Come behind the scenes with the staff of Slightly Foxed to learn what makes this unusual literary magazine tick, meet some of its varied friends and contributors, and hear their personal recommendations for favourite and often forgotten books that have helped, haunted, informed or entertained them.
Further podcasts by Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader's Quarterly
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47: Aspects of Orwell from 2023-10-15T07:30
D. J. Taylor, literary critic, novelist and Whitbread Prize-winning author of the definitive Orwell: The Life and its highly acclaimed sequel Listen
46: Return to Kettle’s Yard from 2023-07-15T07:30
Laura Freeman, chief art critic at The Times and author of Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artist...
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45: Ronald Blythe: A Life Well Written from 2023-04-15T07:30
‘I would like to be remembered as a good writer and a good man . . . Writers are observers. We are natural lookers, watchers . . . it seems to me quite wonderful that I have so long been able ...
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44: Jean Rhys: Voyages in the Dark from 2023-01-15T08:30
The writer Jean Rhys is best known for Wide Sargasso Sea, her haunting prequel to Jane Eyre, yet her own life would have made for an equally compelling novel.
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43: Dinner with Joseph Johnson from 2022-10-15T07:30
Bookseller, publisher, Dissenter and dinner-party host, Joseph Johnson was a great enabler in the late 18th-century literary landscape . . .
Daisy Hay is the author of Dinner with... Listen
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42: Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure from 2022-07-15T06:00
Paddy Leigh Fermor was just 18 when he set forth from the Hook of Holland, bound for the Golden Horn . . .
Artemis Cooper, Paddy’s biographer, and Nick Hunt, author of
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41: Barbara Pym and Other Excellent Women from 2022-04-15T07:30
A latter-day Austen, an academic, a romantic, a comic, a caustic chronicler of the commonplace . . . The novelist Barbara Pym became beloved and Booker Prize-nominated in the late twentieth ce...
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40: Adrian Bell: Back to the Land from 2022-02-15T09:15
The farmer-cum-writer Adrian Bell is best-known for his rural trilogy of Suffolk farming life, Corduroy, Silver Ley and The Cherry Tree. To explore Bell’s life and w...
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39: Idle Moments: Literary Loafers through the Ages and Pages from 2022-01-15T09:15
In the spirit of Plato’s Symposium, the Slightly Foxed team enter into lively dialogue with two distinguished magazine editors, Tom Hodgkinson of the Idler and Harry...
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38: Literary Drinking: Alcohol in the Lives and Work of Writers from 2021-12-15T09:00
Booze as muse or a sure road to ruin? In this month’s episode, William Palmer – author of In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers – and Henry Jeffreys – autho...
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37: Rewriting the Script: The short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath with her acclaimed biographer Heather Clark from 2021-11-15T09:15
Heather Clark, Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield and author of the award-winning biography Red Comet, joins the Slightly Foxed team from New ...
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36: Graphic Novels: A Comic Turn with Posy Simmonds&Paul Gravett from 2021-10-15T08:25
The cartoonist, writer and illustrator Posy Simmonds brilliantly captures the ambitions and pretensions of the literary world, and the journalist and curator Paul Gravett has worked in comics ...
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35: Decline and Fall: A Literary Guide from 2021-09-15T08:30
The Dark Ages, Late Antiquity, the late Roman . . . however you define the years spanning the fall of Rome, the period is rich in stories, real or reimagined.
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34: Sybille Bedford’s Appetite for Life from 2021-08-15T08:30
‘I wondered for a time who this brilliant “Mrs Bedford” could be,’ wrote Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford on reading Sybille Bedford’s first novel, A Legacy.
The tw...
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33: The Golden Age of Crime Writing from 2021-07-15T08:15
Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist and president of the Detection Club Martin Edwards and Richard Reynolds, crime buyer for Heffers Bookshop and member of the Crime Writers’ Associati...
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32: Picnic at Hanging Rock&Other Stories from 2021-06-15T08:15
‘Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction, my readers must decide for themselves.’ It’s a scorching St Valentine’s Day in 1900 when three boarding-school girls and a teacher ...
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31: The Magic of Angela Carter from 2021-05-15T08:15
Imagination, influence and the invention of infernal desire machines . . . Edmund Gordon, biographer of Angela Carter, guides the Slightly Foxed team through her colourful works and e...
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30: Jim Ede’s Way of Life from 2021-04-15T08:15
In this twentieth-century story of a quest for beauty, the writer Laura Freeman introduces us to Jim Ede, a man who, in creating Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, changed the way we look at art. We ...
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29: A Poet’s Haven from 2021-03-15T09:15
The artist Barrie Cooke had fishing in common with Ted Hughes, and mud and art in common with Seamus Heaney. Dr Mark Wormald, a scholar on the life and writings of Ted Hughes, has brought to l...
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28: An Odyssey through the Classics from 2021-02-15T09:23
Daisy Dunn, historian and biographer of Catullus and Pliny, sets our scene in ancient Rome and Greece, entertaining the Slightly Foxed team with literature of love and war, satire and myth, an...
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27: Dr Wiener’s Library from 2021-01-15T09:15
Anthony Wells worked at The Wiener Holocaust Library in London for a decade. In this episode he leads the Slightly Foxed editors into the history of the library, which holds one of th...
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26: A Winter’s Tale from 2020-12-15T09:15
In this seasonal episode, the Slightly Foxed team are guided through a snowstorm of winter writing over twelve centuries by the literary critic and author of Weatherland, Alexandra Ha...
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25: A Writer’s Territory from 2020-11-15T09:15
The Scottish nature writer Jim Crumley takes the Slightly Foxed team on a tour of literary landscapes, from the lochs of the Trossachs and the mountainous Cairngorms to Aldo Leopold’s...
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24: The Lives and Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb from 2020-10-15T08:15
Dr Felicity James, author of Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s and current custodian of Charles’s writing chair, introduces the Slightly Foxe...
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23: A Writer in the Kitchen from 2020-09-15T08:15
The food writer and chef Olivia Potts joins the Slightly Foxed editors for a literary banquet. Olivia was a barrister for five years before enrolling at Le Cordon Bleu, becoming a coo...
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22: Independent Spirit from 2020-08-15T08:15
Small but discerning, choosing passion over fashion, Little Toller Books shares an independent spirit with Slightly Foxed. Jon Woolcott joins us from this publishing house based in a ...
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21: A Bookshelf in Tripoli from 2020-07-15T08:15
Justin Marozzi, a travel writer, historian and journalist who’s lived in Somalia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Darfur, joins the Slightly Foxed editors on a journey through North Afri...
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20: An Issue of Enthusiasms from 2020-06-15T08:21
Slightly Foxed Editors Gail and Hazel take us between the pages of the magazine, bookmarking articles along the way. Crack the spine of the quarterly to discover T. H. White taking f...
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19: Tim Pears’s West Country from 2020-05-15T08:15
Tim Pears, a writer rooted in the landscape of Devon, takes Slightly Foxed to the West Country. From working at his local library and reading an author a week instead of taking his A ...
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18: The Ordeal of Evelyn Waugh from 2020-04-15T08:15
The great prose stylist of the 20th century, monster, performer? Biographer and literary journalist Selina Hastings and writer and critic Alexander Waugh reveal the many reputations of Evelyn ...
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17: Margaret Drabble: A Writer’s Life from 2020-03-15T09:15
Dame Margaret Drabble joins us at the Slightly Foxed table as we celebrate her life in writing. From taking up her pen in the 1960s as a young mother alone in her kitchen to feeling p...
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16: Moving in Royal Circles from 2020-02-15T09:00
Biographer and academic Jane Ridley and screenwriter and novelist Daisy Goodwin join the Slightly Foxed Editors to reveal the wealth to be found in royal biographies, memoirs and hist...
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15: Reading Resolutions from 2020-01-15T09:00
As we turn the page to a new decade, we’ve made some New Year resolutions. John Mitchinson and Andy Miller of Backlisted Podcast join the Slightly Foxed Editors to bring new life to o...
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14: The Vital Spark from 2019-12-15T09:00
What sparks a lifelong love of reading? Francis Spufford, author of The Child that Books Built, and Emily Drabble of the children’s reading charity BookTrust, delve into bookshelves p...
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13: Nature&Story from 2019-11-15T09:55
In the parochial lies the universal, or does it? Join us on a trip to the British countryside as we plough into the matter of nature, landscape and the rural world in literature to find out mo...
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12: Slightly Foxed – But Still Desirable from 2019-10-15T08:00
Gail, Hazel and host Philippa enter the world of second-hand bookselling with Chris Saunders of Henry Sotheran’s, the world’s oldest antiquarian bookshop. From folios to quartos, half-binding ...
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11: Orkney’s Prospero from 2019-09-15T09:00
Gail, Hazel and host Philippa are transported to Orkney as they explore the life and works of the poet and novelist George Mackay Brown OBE. Together with his biographer Maggie Fergusson and C...
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10: From Page to Stage from 2019-08-15T09:00
Just who are literary festivals for and why do we love them so much? Gail, Steph and host Philippa go backstage with Anne Oxborough of the well-established Ways With Words and Michael Pugh of ...
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9: Well-Cultivated Words from 2019-07-15T09:00
Gail, Hazel and host Philippa dig into the subject of garden writing with the journalist and social historian Ursula Buchan and Matt Collins, nature writer and Head Gardener at London’s Garden...
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8: Leaving that Place called Home from 2019-06-15T09:00
Hazel, Jennie and host Philippa explore the art of travel writing with the acclaimed author and biographer Sara Wheeler, and Barnaby Rogerson of the well-loved independent publisher Eland Book...
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7: A Window on the World from 2019-05-15T09:00
Gail, Steph and Anna go behind the scenes with booksellers Brett Wolstencroft of Daunt Books and Kathleen Smith of Topping & Co. Bath to talk about the reality and romance of life running tw...
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6: Well-Written Lives from 2019-04-15T09:00
Gail, Hazel, Jennie and host Philippa are joined at the table by eminent biographer Adam Sisman to discuss the delicate business of delving into the lives of others – warts and all or, sometimes...
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5: Revival from 2019-03-15T10:00
Gail, Hazel, Anna and Donna Coonan of Virago Modern Classics gather round the table to talk about giving new life to forgotten voices, and Helen Bourne heads for the Pyramids with a young Prisci...
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4: Viewing Is Essential from 2019-02-15T11:00
Gail, Hazel and Jennie talk to the artist and illustrator (and master of pastiche) David Eccles about the craft of marrying image and text. The actress Petra Markham takes to the airwaves with P...
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2: The Oldest Paper in the World from 2018-12-15T09:00
In Episode 2: The Oldest Paper in the World Gail, Hazel and Jennie talk to Frances Wood, librarian, sinologue and former head of the Chinese Collection at the British Library; Andrew Hawkins rec...
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1: Kindred Spirits from 2018-11-15T12:30
In the first episode of The Slightly Foxed Podcast, SF founders Gail Pirkis, Hazel Wood and Steph Allen meet author Jim Ring round the kitchen table at No. 53 to remember how it all began, and V...
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Reading off the Beaten track (Trailer) from 2018-11-07T10:59:30
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have la...
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