Psychopomp and circumstance
Apr 10, 2025•53 min
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Episode description
This week, Margaret Drabble explores how Dickens drew on his love of the macabre and grotesque to create literary magic; and Norma Clarke takes a tour around the British coast.
'Dickens the enchanter: Inside the explosive imagination of the great storyteller', by Peter Conrad
'The restless coast: A journey around the edge of Britain', by Roger Morgan-Grenville
'Seascape: Notes from a changing coastline', by Matthew Yeomans
'The Shetland Way: Community and climate crisis on my father’s islands', by Marianne Brown
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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