The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks

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🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Rosemary Tonks is the subject of this episode of Backlisted. Our starting point is her fascinating third novel The Bloater (1968) - which is long out of print, unfortunately - but we also discuss her remarkable poetry, her friendship with Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, her eccentric career in fiction, radio and theatre, and her gradual retreat from the world. Joining John and Andy to discover more about this unique and enigmatic writer are two of Tonks's admirers, author and critic Jennifer Hodgson and the comedian Stewart Lee. Also in this episode Andy replenishes his enthusiasm for Elizabeth Taylor with her (bizarrely underrated) novel The Wedding Group (1968), while John shines a light on Andy Charman's Crow Court, a new novel of short stories set in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, in the 19th century, published by Unbound.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)23'15 The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks* 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, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
0:22.0	Jennifer, where are you? How are you doing? What's been happening?
0:26.0	I'm in my bedroom in Southeast London where I've been since March. Could be anywhere. I'm all right there.
0:36.0	Is the correct answer. Yeah, I think that's all you can say.
0:40.0	I think today's been quite bad. What was the one thing they know? That's getting the energy.
0:45.0	Everybody's feeling good now. Well done, Andy.
0:48.0	Steve, where are you? Well, I'm in the office bit of my house in Stoke, New England.
0:54.0	And today, my wife was running around the park and she saw Johnny Trump of Trump records
1:00.0	who put out lots of radiophonic stuff. And he asked her how I was.
1:04.0	He said he hadn't seen me around. He was worried that I'd spend the whole of lockdown
1:08.0	just sitting in a dark room full of full CDs.
1:12.0	And that is exactly what I've done. I've been sitting in a dark room reading rosemary songs
1:18.0	and equally objectionable character.
1:22.0	Definitely, definitely. There's definitely a marquee Smith rosemary songs. I'm not going to say that's great.
1:28.0	Definitely got that in early. All right.
1:30.0	Hello, and welcome to Backlisted, the podcast that gives new life to old books.
1:34.0	Today, you find us in late 60s London. We're on a lunch break from the electronic sound workshop
1:40.0	sitting in a CD pub, drinking stingos and eating cheese sandwiches that make our gum smart
1:45.0	and trading cryptic stories about our love lives or the lack of them.
1:49.0	I'm John Mitchen, some publisher of Unbound, the platform where readers crowdfund the books
1:53.0	they really want to read.
1:55.0	And I'm Andy Miller, author of the Year of Reading Dangerously.
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