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The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Novelist and writer Elizabeth Day joins John & Andy to discuss Rosamond Lehmann's 1936 novel of a young woman's affair with a married man. Also featured: Magnus Mills record store day novel 'The Forensic Record Society' and Clover Stroud's memoir 'The Wild Other'. Timings: (may differ due to adverts) 5'06 - The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills 10'26 - The Wild Other by Clover Stroud 14'41 - The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann * 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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Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free. I was asked to take part in the Museum of Curiosity, which is a radio for panel show last weekend.

0:51.0

And I was asked at quite short notice.

0:54.0

I did rather suggest to me that somebody had dropped out.

0:57.0

But of course, we've never turned down a gig.

1:01.0

So I was absolutely, I was so thrilled.

1:03.4

And also the Museum of Curiosity

1:04.8

is like my son's favorite radio program.

1:08.1

So it was really, so I get an email and it says,

1:11.4

Andy, we've got a slot coming up on the Museum of Curiosity.

1:15.2

Two things it's happening this Sunday and so are you free on Sunday?

1:18.4

Yes of course I don't.

1:19.4

Let me check and the panel and the panel is Kathy Lte and Stephen Fry, are you okay with that?

1:26.0

And I went, oh yes, ha!

1:29.0

And then spent a whole week fretting about it.

1:31.0

I mean, Kathy Let's amazing, because when I was a journalist, like a junior reporter on the Sunday

1:35.8

Telegraph, we always used to get those last minute stories on a Saturday where some ridiculous

1:39.8

survey would have been done by the University of Ohio and I remember one of them was like

1:45.1

whether optimists made better lovers and pessimists and the one person he could

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