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Right. Welcome to Offair for Thursday.

Now, what do we have for you today? Well, all sorts of thuff, including an interview with, this is a man called James Fox, and I always think of the acting dynasty, but it's not.

Nothing to do with that. So he is an eminent academic, and he's written a book. He's written

many books, actually. This one is about craft. It's about the

vanishing crafts of this country. And I think this week we've done hopefully a decent job,

well Eve has done the decent job, of booking some guests that take our minds elsewhere,

like the lovely Ray Mears, and hopefully James Fox will do the same thing. So the book's just

about all of the

things that used to make up really integral parts of our society. So the people who made the baskets,

who banged iron in a foundry, who built the dry stone walls, who kept our economic and social climate good and and you might think oh gosh

that's just going to be a great big kind of weepy of nostalgia for times before but it's really

interesting it's really lovely and i think he's got some quite decent things to say about the way

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