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Darkness Falls from the Air by Nigel Balchin

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Journalist, broadcaster and former editrice of The Erotic Review Rowan Pelling joins John, Andy and Mathew on the show to explain her love of Nigel Balchin's novel of the London Blitz, Darkness Falls From The Air. Timings: (may differ due to adverts) 4'00 - Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield 8'47 - The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner 16'55 Darkness Falls from the Air by Nigel Balchin * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show and join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and get extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a patron at www.patreon.com/backlisted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Did you know that the guy that started Green Black's Chocolate used to do the macrobiotic food at

0:16.5

UFO?

0:17.5

I did not know that though.

0:20.5

Lives in Hastings now. They've all moved to Hostings.

0:24.0

I don't think it's...

0:25.0

I've got a friend who's a chritty and dirty which a texture...

0:28.0

Gonnaise.

0:29.0

There's a really good website called Coco Lovers, which if you're really into chocolate they send you a

0:35.4

sampler box every month truly amazing chocolate's with fabulous packaging from all over the

0:39.6

world and it's all single estate the best once you you taste that Green and we actually

0:44.4

realize it's crap. I know. It's just not very good chocolate. I remember when I was

0:48.4

going up my parents who are middle-class like drinking La Pierre outdoor.

0:51.8

Remember that wine? Because I'm very classy. middle class like

0:55.0

at door. Remember that wine?

0:53.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:55.0

Shadow or the peat.

0:56.0

Yeah, shadow, the jad all, yeah, it was sort of beyond Matius rosé,

1:01.0

was that?

1:02.0

Julie Berthell said about erotic review readers when Chris Hart for some reason phoned her up and asked her to do a book review.

1:08.0

So she took great delight in turning it down and getting a column out of it and saying they were like,

1:11.0

DHS Snoops, who drank Piatore and I thought the only possible

1:17.3

retort to that was yes we love Piatore we frankly drink anything but at end of the party. We are the people going into your parents

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