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  • Philip Larkin

    Frank tells how Philip Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ gave him a massive panic attack.

    Poems referenced:
    Philip Larkin – Wild Oats
    Philip Larkin - Dockery and Son
    Philip Larkin - An Arundel Tomb

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    41 min
  • Episode #142 ... Richard Rorty

    Today we begin our discussion of the work of Richard Rorty. 

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    29 min
  • 18: The Ordeal of Evelyn Waugh
    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 Waugh with the Slightly Foxed editors. From a pathological fear of boredom, hallucinations provoked by doses of bromide and cheques bouncing at the Ritz to his relationships conducted through letters, his genius for sharp satire and love of gossip, the conversation brings to light the darkness and humour of Waugh’s works. And we visit The Loved One’s Whispering Glades in this month’s reading from the magazine’s archives.

    Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 45 minutes; 21 seconds)

    Books Mentioned
    Please note that while many titles by other publishers are available to buy from the Slightly Foxed shop, we will not be able to order them from our distributor and send them out to readers until the office reopens. We may be able to find second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Anna for more information.

    Books by Evelyn Waugh
    - The Sword of Honour trilogy: Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender (3:14)
    - Put out More Flags is out of print (3:53)
    - Decline and Fall (11:48)
    - Scoop (18:44)
    - A Handful of Dust (21:50)
    - Brideshead Revisited (22:58)
    - The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is out of print (27:09)
    - The Loved One (32:35)

    Other Books
    - The Carey Novels by Ronald Welch, Slightly Foxed Cubs editions (1:46)
    - Evelyn Waugh: A Biography, Selina Hastings is out of print (2:40)
    - Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family, Alexander Waugh is out of print (2:47)
    - A Russian Journal, John Steinbeck with photographs by Robert Capa (40:37)
    - The Singapore Grip, J. G. Farrell (41:40)
    - Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography, Diana Price is out of print (42:27)
    - Zoo Station, David Downing is out of print (44:02)

    Related Slightly Foxed Articles
    - The Tortoise of Total War, Anthony Gardner on the Sword of Honour trilogy in Issue 36 (3:14)
    - Race of Ghosts, Patrick Denman Flanery on Put out More Flags in Issue 9 (3:53)
    - Portrait of the Artist in Middle Age, William Palmer on The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold in Issue 65 (27:09)
    - Waugh on the Warpath, Ranjit Bolt on The Loved One in Issue 46 (32:35)

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    - The winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2019: Jonathan Phillips for The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (1:23)
    - Alexander Waugh is the general editor of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh (43 volumes planned), bringing together all of the extant writings and graphic art: novels, biographies, travel writing, short fiction, essays, articles, reportage, reviews, poems, juvenilia, drawings and designs.

    Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach
    The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable
    46 min
  • Ben Lerner Reads “The Media”

    Ben Lerner reads his story from the April 20, 2020, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of the novels “Leaving the Atocha Station,” “10:04,” and “The Topeka School,” which was published last year. He was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 2015. 

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  • 17: Margaret Drabble: A Writer’s Life
    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 part of a movement with Nell Dunn, Margaret Forster and Edna O’Brien, to editing The Oxford Companion to English Literature without the help of a computer and eschewing the Booker Prize, Margaret Drabble sees writing as both an illness and a trade, finding black humour in ageing and joy in jigsaw puzzles along the way. And we uncover whatever happened to the elusive novelist Elizabeth Jenkins in this month’s reading from the magazine’s archives.

    Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 44 minutes; 23 seconds)

    Books Mentioned
    We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Anna in the Slightly Foxed office for more information.

    Margaret Drabble Books Mentioned
    Out of print
    - A Summer Bird-Cage (5:41)
    - Arnold Bennett: A Biography (8:58)
    - Angus Wilson: A Biography (9:54)
    - The Oxford Companion to English Literature, (ed.) Fifth & Sixth editions (11:13)
    - The Radiant Way (15:20)
    - A Natural Curiosity (15:20)
    In print
    - The Millstone (14:10)
    - The Needle’s Eye (17:37)
    - The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws NB Published 7 May 2020 (21:35)
    - The Dark Flood Rises (36:48)

    Other Books
    - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, Angus Wilson is out of print (10:28)
    - The Tortoise and the Hare and Harriet, Elizabeth Jenkins (28:17)
    - The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton (39:08)
    - The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Alexievich (40:26)
    - To War with Whitaker, Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly: Slightly Foxed Edition No. 50 (41:55)

    Related Slightly Foxed Articles
    - Whatever Happened to Elizabeth Jenkins?, Nigel Andrew on the novels of Elizabeth Jenkins in Issue 60 (28:17)
    - Joyce to the Life, Margaret Drabble on Richard Ellman, James Joyce in Issue 49
    - Trollope’s Ireland, Margaret Drabble on the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope in Issue 59

    Other Links
    - The winner of The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2019: Jonathan Phillips for The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (1:00)
    - The Full Digital Archive of Slightly Foxed (26:23)
    - An Index to Slightly Foxed

    Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach
    The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable
    45 min
  • Episode 162 - Sam Waterston

    Actor Sam Waterston doesn't do many of these. In fact, this is his first podcast. To mark the special occasion the stage and screen performer reflects on his 60-year career, from his days at Yale in Waiting for Godot to breaking into Hollywood with the The Great Gatsby. But what most fascinates Waterston is reflecting on his life behind the camera, off-stage, as a husband and father. For years Waterston was reluctant to publicly give voice to his thoughts. Now that he's approaching 80, he's starting to feel different. “I just want to know what I think,” he says, “and I don’t know how much more time there is to find that out.”



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    1 hr 4 min
  • Anne Enright Reads “Night Swim”

    Anne Enright reads her story from the March 9, 2020, issue of the magazine. Enright is the author of three short-story collections and seven novels, including “The Gathering,” which won the Man Booker Prize in 2007, and “Actress,” which was published this month.

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    0 min
  • 15: Reading Resolutions
    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 old books, leading us off the beaten track with wide-ranging reading recommendations. From Frank O’Connor’s letters, Selina Hastings’s lives and Barbara Tuchman’s histories to the poetry of John Berryman, Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, they journey through genres to revive literary curiosity. And in this month’s reading from the magazine’s archives, Richard Platt makes a convincing case for The Quincunx by Charles Palliser, falling under its curse of sleepless nights.   

    Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 38 minutes; 49 seconds) 

    Books Mentioned
    We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Anna in the Slightly Foxed office for more information.
    - To War with Whitaker, Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly. Slightly Foxed Edition No. 50, published 1 March 2020 (1:21)
    - The Year of Reading Dangerously, Andy Miller (3:32)
    - A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman (6:05)
    - Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 and The Great British Dream Factory, Dominic Sandbrook (8:08)
    - Corregidora, Gayl Jones (9:33)
    - Independence Day, Richard Ford (12:28)
    - The Happiness of Getting it Down Right: Letters of Frank O’Connor and William Maxwell is out of print (14:12)
    - A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz (16:34)
    - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson (18:45)
    - Selina Hastings has written biographies of Somerset Maugham, Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Rosamond Lehmann (22:43)
    - 77 Dream Songs, John Berryman is out of print (25:32)
    - Diving into the Wreck, Adrienne Rich (27:45)
    - The Quincunx, Charles Palliser (32:08)

    Related Slightly Foxed Articles
    - A World of Words, Annabel Walker on Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness in Issue 37 (16:34)
    - Grave Expectations, Richard Platt on Charles Palliser, The Quincunx in Issue 60 (32:08)

    Other Links
    - The Slightly Foxed mug (now sold out) displayed the quote: ‘Charles Lamb once told Coleridge he was especially fond of books containing traces of buttered muffins.’ Please do get in touch with suggestions for a quote (up to 20 words) for a forthcoming mug design: [email protected] (2:21)
    - Backlisted, the literary podcast giving new life to old books, presented by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller (3:22)

    Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach
    Reading music: Songs Without Words - No.12 in F Sharp Minor, Op.30 by Felix Mendelssohn
    The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable
    39 min
  • Douglas Stuart Reads “Found Wanting”

    Douglas Stuart reads his story from the January 13, 2020, issue of the magazine. Stuart, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, will publish his first novel, “Shuggie Bain,” in February. This is his first published piece of fiction. 

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    40 min
  • 14: The Vital Spark
    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 past and present with the Slightly Foxed Editors to understand the alchemy that ignites the spark. From books as seductive objects, the haphazardness of alphabetical organization and disappearing libraries to the joys of cover-to-cover reading and books being doorways to new worlds, the conversation reveals what a passion for reading can bring to our lives. In this month’s dip into the magazine’s archives Ysenda Maxtone Graham gives tried and tested tips for reading aloud, grappling with Tolkien pronunciations along the way, and there’s the usual round-up of recommendations for reading off the beaten track.

    Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 36 minutes; 57 seconds)

    Books Mentioned
    We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Anna in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. 
    - Golden Hill, Francis Spufford (2:23)
    - The Child that Books Built, Francis Spufford (2:50)
    - The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (3:58)
    - The Jinny books by Patricia Leitch are out of print (4:46)
    - Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome (5:36)
    - High Rise Mystery, Sharna Jackson (16:35)
    - Burglar Bill, Janet & Allan Ahlberg (19:50)
    - So Much, Trish Cooke, illus. Helen Oxenbury (20:04)
    - The Boy in the Black Suit, Jason Reynolds (32:45)
    - The Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard (33:27)
    - The Gate of Air, James Buchan is out of print (34:16)
    - Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War, ed. Anne Boston (35:21)

    Related Slightly Foxed Articles
    - Laura, Louisa and Me, Daisy Hay on her childhood reading and The Child that Books Built in Issue 31 (2:50)
    - Three in a Bed, Ysenda Maxtone Graham on reading aloud in Issue 40 (25.18)

    Other Links
    - BookTrust is the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. They are dedicated to getting children reading, and each year they reach 3.9 million children across the UK with books, resources and support to help develop a love of reading (3:00)

    Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach
    Reading music: The Bluff Trail by Chad Crouch, from Album Field Report Vol 1, made available as Creative Commons thanks to www.freemusicarchive.org
    The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable
    37 min