In November, we get up before dawn to watch the stars and stay out past sunset to light bonfires for Samhain. In between, we head to Dorset for some birdwatching, to Sussex for people watching and out into the lanes to pick hawthorn berries and sloes. At the end of the day, we sit by the fire and hear a comforting song about home, 'Cartref', sung by Gwilym B ... Show More
Sep 2018
The carnivore's guide to meat and fire
Meat, drink, fire and bands - every year top chefs gather in London for a hearty celebration that has become a carnivore's delight. Tim Hayward arrived fork in hand to see if there is any substance to the Meatopia craze. Lennox Hastie, 'Lord Logs' Mark Parr and the Hang Fire Barb ... Show More
28m 32s
Aug 2023
536 Literary New Orleans (with TR Johnson) | My Last Book with Len Webb and Vincent Williams
It's a trip to the Big Easy! The city of New Orleans is so famous for its music, its food, and its Mardi Gras mentality that it's sometimes overlooked as a magnet for writers like Walt Whitman, Zora Neale Hurston, and William Faulkner. In this episode, Jacke talks to New Orleans ... Show More
58m 18s
Dec 2021
A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten
In 1942, Benjamin Britten boarded the M.S. Axel Johnson, a Swedish cargo vessel, to make the journey home to England after three years in America. During the voyage, the ship stopped at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where Britten came across a poetry anthology in a bookshop - The English ... Show More
27m 54s
Jul 2023
LPN Deep Dives: A Court of Thorns and Roses / Episode 22: Loosh, He Is Your Father
The wall comes tumbling down this week, while Morrigan's walls go *up* after a tumble in the sheets with Helion, who is Lucien's daddy?! It's a messy week in Prythian. Please read up until Chapter 59, page 531 in the paperback edition. No DGWE this week because we're running shor ... Show More
1h 23m
Sep 2021
Introducing: The Beautiful Liar
The Beautiful Liar premieres on 11/3 on Amazon Music ad-free with new episodes dropping every Wednesday. And, it will launch widely, wherever you listen your podcasts, on 11/17. ~~ An unlikely super-hero origin story, The Beautiful Liar, is an original scripted series imagined by ... Show More
3m 29s