The Town House by Norah Lofts

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🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week John and Andy are joined by journalist and author Lucy Mangan, whose new memoir of childhood reading Bookworm has just been published by Square Peg. They discuss Norah Lofts' novel The Town House (1959), the first of her 'Suffolk house' trilogy. Andy also talks about Words Best Sung by Lee Stuart Evans, and John has been reading Emmanuel Carrère's The Kingdom. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 7'44 - Words Best Sung by Lee Stuart Evans 16'30 - The Kingdom by by Emmanuel Carrère 21'29 - The Town House by Norah Lofts * 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	And the Well the last time I spoke to you you were in the snow you were saying we were
0:22.3	recording this just it was a terrible cold snap.
0:25.1	A terrible cold winter of 2000.
0:27.3	The last three day.
0:29.1	So you were out in a field.
0:31.5	Yes, I was.
0:32.2	I was just, we to just getting getting livestock in because I mean the sheep are
0:37.0	hard enough probably to survive it but they're pregnant so I feel they ought to be inside.
0:41.8	They're course as soon as you bring them in,
0:44.1	this first thing they do is go out and sit in the snow.
0:46.1	It's just what sheep do.
0:50.4	But...
0:51.0	They're just thick, aren't they? Well, I don't know. I don't know how thick they are.
0:55.0	They're they what they are is they've definitely got personalities and they've definitely got you've got dominant sheep to sheep that lead and others that follow.
1:04.0	They're like anything.
1:06.0	That blows everything out of the Yeah.
1:08.0	That's not the language.
1:10.0	Go!
1:11.0	I know. I know.
1:13.0	Well you know the lemmings.
1:16.0	the lemmings, the lemmings is totally made up.
1:18.0	You know that it's all made up for a Disney film.
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