Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Episode 96 – The Real and the Counterfeit by Louisa Baldwin
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Episode 96 – The Real and the Counterfeit by Louisa Baldwin
This episode, Mike and Will grab their literary toboggans and gallop joyously out into the snow, only to be hit in the face by a terrifying fictional snowball in the form of Louisa Baldwin’s The Real and the Counterfeit!
Big thanks as ever to Debbie Wedge for providing the readings for this episode. Looking for a last-minute Christmas gift to please the M.R. James fan in your life? Why not head over to Debbie’s Redbubble store and pick up an awesome Jamesian Wallop, Barchestering, or No Diggin’ ‘Ere t-shirt?
Show notes:
We covered The Weird of the Walfords back in the summer, and included a lot more biographical details about Louisa Baldwin.
A lot of the action in this story takes place in a long gallery, a popular architectural feature of many stately homes in England.
Like Lawley in this story, George in Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat was also a keen banjo player, much to the displeasure of his friends. Similarly, in Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse, Bertie’s insistence on playing the banjolele is what finally drives Jeeves to leave Bertie’s service (albeit temporarily).
In this episode, Mike mentions a number of old houses in England that are, like Stonecroft, said to be haunted by ghostly monks.
The city of Funchal in Madeira is famous for providing toboggan-like basket rides from the Mount Church on the hill, down into the town.
View all episodes
By A Podcast to the Curious - The M.R. James Podcast
4.9
153153 ratings
This episode, Mike and Will grab their literary toboggans and gallop joyously out into the snow, only to be hit in the face by a terrifying fictional snowball in the form of Louisa Baldwin’s The Real and the Counterfeit!
Big thanks as ever to Debbie Wedge for providing the readings for this episode. Looking for a last-minute Christmas gift to please the M.R. James fan in your life? Why not head over to Debbie’s Redbubble store and pick up an awesome Jamesian Wallop, Barchestering, or No Diggin’ ‘Ere t-shirt?
Show notes:
We covered The Weird of the Walfords back in the summer, and included a lot more biographical details about Louisa Baldwin.
A lot of the action in this story takes place in a long gallery, a popular architectural feature of many stately homes in England.
Like Lawley in this story, George in Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat was also a keen banjo player, much to the displeasure of his friends. Similarly, in Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse, Bertie’s insistence on playing the banjolele is what finally drives Jeeves to leave Bertie’s service (albeit temporarily).
In this episode, Mike mentions a number of old houses in England that are, like Stonecroft, said to be haunted by ghostly monks.
The city of Funchal in Madeira is famous for providing toboggan-like basket rides from the Mount Church on the hill, down into the town.
More shows like A Podcast to the Curious - The M.R. James Podcast
View all
Odd Lots
1,897 Listeners
The Bugle
3,730 Listeners
No Such Thing As A Fish
4,880 Listeners
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James (1862 - 1936)
32 Listeners
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
353 Listeners
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST
1,224 Listeners
Classic Ghost Stories
528 Listeners
The Supermassive Podcast
316 Listeners
The Ancients
3,238 Listeners
The Rest Is History
14,672 Listeners
Gone Medieval
1,832 Listeners
Not Just the Tudors
2,040 Listeners
Plain English with Derek Thompson
2,288 Listeners
Kermode & Mayo’s Take
327 Listeners
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
1,084 Listeners