The long weekend is coming and we suggest you cook your seed cakes, beetroot salad or whatever else may happen to be traditional in your culture to the soothing sounds of a story about a frisky wee doggie and a Susannah Pearse number about someone in denial.

For alternate fifteen minuteses, Annika Stranded by Nick Walker is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b049fg98/episodes/player

And Warhorses of Letters, born at Tall Tales, is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p6dcx

If, after Warhorses of Letters, you need more Marie Phillips, then her newsletter is terrific: https://tinyletter.com/mariephillips/

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