Tophole!

Tophole!

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Tophole! episodes

  • That lovely cheque

    How on earth did Jack and Joey afford their huge house, 11 children, and multiple wards and adoptees? Let's find out...


    Transcript available at topholepodcast.wordpress.com

    You can email us at [email protected]


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    22 min
  • The dear days of Folly

    If you remember the fanzines of the pre-digital age, you might remember Folly, the best of them all. Today I'm talking to Folly's editor, Sue Sims.


    Links mentioned in the episode

    follymagazine.co.uk (you may need to go to follymagazine.co.uk/articles rather than the homepage)

    sevenstories.org.uk


    Episode transcript at topholepodcast.wordpress.com

    Contact us at [email protected]


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    40 min
  • Cavalier Maid

    EBD didn't just write school stories, and today we're looking at her historical novel for adults, Elizabeth the Gallant.


    Apologies for the earlier audio mix-up - we've now corrected this.


    Transcript available at www.topholepodcast.wordpress.com.

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    31 min
  • Morning break

    It's a Wendy week (woo!) and today we're considering the Chalet School's consumption of caffeine and nicotine. Probably best not to listen if you're doing Stoptober or have recently switched to green tea.


    If you have hardback or GGBP editions of the second half of the series, you have the advantage over us, so please do let us know if we left out anything significant. But do bear in mind that this was our third attempt to record this particular episode so we rather lost track of what we had and hadn't discussed!


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    31 min
  • A cockney accent
    "Miss Dene was on the stairs and she was a cannibal" is the unfortunate summary of this term whiich we later get, but it doesn't put off Miss Ferrars. Hopefully the staff fill her in on all the other things that happen during this eventful term on St Briavels.

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    22 min
  • When are you putting yours up?

    It's a Wendy week and we're talking about hair - washing it, cutting it, styling it - at the Chalet School. Also some top beauty (and gardening) tips along the way as we relate our own hair experiences.


    The YouTube video we refer to is "I tried 500 years of Haircuts" by Morgan Donner.

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    39 min
  • It's not pointillism
    Gwyn Jones is the only artist to have created a book cover for every single Chalet School book (and a few extra ones, as Armada divided some of the original hardbacks when publishing them in paperback). In this interview, she explains how she became a professional illustrator, and provides a fascinating insight into how she created the Chalet School book covers of the 1980s and 1990s - covers which played a large part in the renewed interest in the books at that time.

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    30 min
  • School with bells on
    We start with a review of Elinor M Brent-Dyer's The Chalet School and Barbara - bears, shoe lockers, and how long is prep exactly?

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    20 min
  • The usual provisos
    Enjoy the Chalet School books? This is the podcast for you! We are launching on 5 September, so here are the provisos regarding pronunciation, spoilers, and affectionate disrespect, which will apply throughout.

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    3 min

About Tophole!

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Episodes look at individual Chalet School books, Elinor M Brent-Dyer's life and other works, and wider themes, with occasional interviews. There will be spoilers, because the books have been in print…