1: Kindred Spirits

In the first episode of The Slightly Foxed Podcast, SF founders Gail Pirkis, Hazel Wood and Steph Allen meet author Jim Ring round the kitchen table at No. 53 to remember how it all began, and Veronika Hyks gives voice to Liz Robinson’s article on Anne Fadiman’s well-loved Ex Libris.

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Books Mentioned

• Erskine Childers by Jim Ring is available directly from publishers Faber & Faber

• Second-hand copies of Anne Fadiman’s Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader are available. Please get in touch for details

• Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

• Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

• James Lees Milne’s memoirs are out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second hand copies. Please get in touch for details

Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations

• Veronika Hyks reads Liz Robinson’s article Kindred Spirits, which can be read in full here

• The article on The British Seagull, The Best Outboard Motor for the World was written by Ben Hopkinson and appeared in Issue 26 of Slightly Foxed

• The article on Modesty Blaise was written by Amanda Theunissen and appeared in Issue 11 of Slightly Foxed

• The article on Georgette Heyer was written by Julia Keay and appeared in Issue 16 of Slightly Foxed

• The articles on Proust were written by Anthony Wells and appeared in Issues 56, 57 and 58 of Slightly Foxed

• The article on M. R. James was written by Tim Mackintosh-Smith and appeared in Issue 4 of Slightly Foxed

• Jim Ring’s articles have appeared in Issues 14, 18, 27 and 43 of Slightly Foxed. His article on Swallows and Amazons can be read here, and on Erskine Childers here

Other Links

• Granta’s Share a Pint campaign with the NHS, promoting Rose George’s book Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood

• The Leaping Hare at Wyken Vinyards

• Anthea Bell obituary

Music & Sound effects:

• Reading music ‘Trio for Piano, Violin and Viola’ by Kevin MacLeod www.incompetech.com with thanks to freesfx.co.uk

• Reading sound effects ‘Pendulum Slow Ticking’ by Klankbeeld with thanks to freesound.org

The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable.