Podcast appearances and mentions of maggie fergusson

In October 2023 we began a series of articles on Family Matters, the first of which was by our very own Editor, Brendan Walsh. Brendan wrote movingly and candidly about his experience of first-time fatherhood in his early 60s. Other articles followed covering themes of adoption, welcoming strangers into your family, the death of a child, being a mother with cancer, an unconventional upbringing, and grandfathers. Three online webinars accompany this series, the first of which was on 8 November with Brendan Walsh and Carina Murphy, who was diagnosed with cancer five years ago when her children were five and nine years old. This is the conversation between Brendan, Carina and Tablet readers, introduced by deputy editor Maggie Fergusson.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-tablet/message

‘I would like to be remembered as a good writer and a good man . . . Writers are observers. We are natural lookers, watchers . . . it seems to me quite wonderful that I have so long been able to make a living from something I love so much.' So wrote the writer, editor and famed chronicler of rural life Ronald Blythe for the Mail on Sunday in 2004. That Ronald (or Ronnie, as he preferred to be known), who died aged 100 in early 2023, will be remembered as a good writer is irrefutable. Many Slightly Foxed listeners will know and love not only Akenfield – his bestselling 1969 portrait of a fictionalized East Anglian village – and the ‘Word from Wormingford' column for the Church Times but also his unparalleled collection of short stories, poems, histories, novels and essays and, most recently, his year-long diary published as Next to Nature, which celebrates the slow perpetual turn of the farming year, the liturgical calendar and the rhythms of village life. In this episode Ronnie's fellow writers and friends, Julia Blackburn and his biographer Ian Collins, lead us down the rough-hewn track to the ancient yeoman's cottage he inherited from the artist John Nash and into the nooks and crannies of his private world, tracing a life well lived and well written. We meet the changeling boy obsessed with books and nature and the self-taught youth whose good looks and charisma caused queues at the Colchester Library reference desk where he worked until he was discovered by the painter Christine Nash. It was she, recognizing his rare talent, who insisted he leave his job to pursue writing fulltime. We track Ronnie's rich literary life path through his friends' personal recollections, touching on tales of mid-winter meetings with E. M. Forster and an unlikely tryst with Patricia Highsmith. We muse on his spirituality and sexuality, his great love for life and his deep connection to the rural world with all its harshness and all its beauty, before heading for Bottengoms Farm where we hear how this great man and great writer saw out his last days in the company of good books and close friends. For our book-lovers' day out we head to the quintessential English cottage of Ronnie's hero, the poet and keen gardener John Clare. And, to finish, a round-up of book recommendations including another East Anglian delight in Adrian Bell's A Countryman's Spring Notebook, an unusual fishing memoir by the writer of the Killing Eve series that's about much more than just fishing, and the intricately plotted revenge tale No Name by Wilkie Collins, one of Ronnie's favourite writers. Books mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information.   Subscribe to Slightly Foxed magazine Ronald Blythe, Akenfield (0:19) Ian Collins, Water Marks: Art in East Anglia is out of print (1:30) Julia Blackburn, The Emperor's Last Island is out of print (2:22) Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls Trilogy (21.59) Ronald Blythe, The Age of Illusion: England in the Twenties and Thirties, 1919-1940 is out of print (24:18) Ronald Blythe, The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age (31:06) Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death (31:38) Adrian Bell, Corduroy (37:30) Ronald Blythe, Word from Wormingford (41:38) Ronald Blythe, Next to Nature (43:36) Nicholas Fisk, Pig Ignorant (52:54) Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook (53:59) Luke Jennings, Blood Knots (54:11) Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle (54:13) Annie Ernaux, The Years (55:15) Wilkie Collins, No Name (55:47) A. N. Wilson, Confessions (56:51) Julia Blackburn gave the eulogy for Ronald Blythe at his funeral which took place at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds on 1 March 2023. She has kindly given us permission to share the full transcript.  Related Slightly Foxed articles & podcast episodes Mellow Fruitfulness, Melissa Harrison on Ronald Blythe's Wormingford books, Issue 40 Light Reading, Ronald Blythe on pocket-size volumes, Issue 17 A Private, Circumspect People, Maggie Fergusson on Ronald Blythe, Akenfield, Issue 11 Where There's a Will, Andrew Lycett on Wilkie Collins, No Name, Issue 48 (56:29) Episode 38 of the Slightly Foxed podcast: Adrian Bell: Back to the Land (53:59) Episode 42 of the Slightly Foxed podcast: Jean Rhys: Voyages in the Dark (59:30)  Other links John Clare Cottage, Helpston (50:20) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach   The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

A panel discussion in conjunction with The University of Notre Dame in Australia, on Christ-Centred Leadership Frameworks in Catholic Education led by Maggie Fergusson, the Literary Editor of The Tablet. Maggie's distinguished guests were: Renee Kohler-Ryan, National Head of the School of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia; Jenny Sinclair, the founder director of Together for the Common Good; Paul Stubbings, a Catholic Head Teacher of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in West London and Raymond Friel, CEO, Caritas Social Action Network. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-tablet/message

Rachel and Simon speak with the author and journalist Maggie Fergusson. After studying history at university, Maggie briefly worked in finance before joining Harper's & Queen magazine (now known as Harper's Bazaar.) As a freelance writer, she was sent by the Times to interview the Scottish poet George Mackay Brown in 1992, and it proved the beginning of a friendship that would culminate with a prizewinning biography published in 2006. Maggie became Secretary of the Royal Society in Literature in 1989; she continues to work at the RSL as the Literary Adviser and edits their annual magazine. We spoke to Maggie about her work past and present at the RSL, her biographies of Mackay Brown and Michael Morpurgo and her journalism for the Tablet, 1843 Magazine and the Spectator. You can find us online at alwaystakenotes.com, on Twitter @takenotesalways and on Instagram @alwaystakenotes. Our crowdfunding page is patreon.com/alwaystakenotes. Always Take Notes is presented by Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, and produced by Artemis Irvine. Our music is by Jessica Dannheisser and our logo was designed by James Edgar.

On this week's episode, from Max Jeffery on his first impressions visiting Israel. (00:45) Then Kate Andrews on her difficult relationship with Newcastle Football Club. (04:58) And finally, Maggie Fergusson's review of the new book Blacksmith: Apprentice to Master: Tools and Traditions of an Ancient Craft. (10:53) Produced and presented by Sam Holmes

Imagination, influence and the invention of infernal desire machines . . . Edmund Gordon, biographer of Angela Carter, guides the Slightly Foxed team through her colourful works and explores the wider realms of magical realism. Witty and wilfully idiosyncratic, Carter conjured sex and death from fairy tales in The Bloody Chamber, used her Somerset Maugham Award money to leave her husband and go to Japan to write, and absorbed the Latin American influences of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez. We hear how she enlisted the Marquis de Sade as an ally of feminism, embraced pulp genres and opened doors for David Mitchell, China Miéville, Helen Oyeyemi and more, while always attending to the grammar of the folk story. And, to finish, there are the usual wide-ranging recommendations for reading off the beaten track.Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 42 minutes; 50 seconds)Books MentionedWe may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. The Invention of Angela Carter, Edmund Gordon (2:27) Shadow Dance, Angela Carter (7:40) The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Angela Carter (8:46)  Fireworks, Angela Carter (8:51) The Magic Toyshop, Angela Carter (10:08) The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter (10:27) The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettelheim (11:29)  Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (13:47)  Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter (16:29) One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (25:50)  Beloved, Toni Morrison (26:21) Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (27:24)  Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, Barbara Comyns (27:37) The Sadeian Woman, Angela Carter (29:50) Shaking A Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings, Angela Carter (31:22) Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories, Angela Carter (31:24) A Card from Angela Carter, Susannah Clapp is currently out of print. A reprint is under consideration (36:12) Extinction, Thomas Bernhard (37:06) Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (38:15)  Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca, Ferdinand Mount (40:20)  Related Slightly Foxed Articles Keeping it Real, Maggie Fergusson interviews the novelist Ali Smith, Issue 54 (9:48) Sophia Fairclough and Me, Sophie Breese on the novels of Barbara Comyns, Issue 42 (27:35) Other Links The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize (2:30) Keats House, Hampstead, London (33:50) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

Im Jahr 1843 schrieb Maggie Fergusson in der Zeitschrift The Economist „Sie kann uns mehr zusetzen als Obdachlosigkeit, Hunger oder Krankheit“. Ihr Thema? Einsamkeit. Fergusson schrieb von der wachsenden Zahl von Menschen, die, unabhängig von gesellschaftlichem oder wirtschaftlichem Status, einsam sind. Sie führte einige bewegende Beispiele an.

“It can be an affliction more harrowing than homelessness, hunger or disease,” wrote Maggie Fergusson in The Economist’s 1843 magazine. Her subject? Loneliness. Fergusson chronicled the increasing rates of loneliness, irrespective of one’s social or economic status, using heart-wrenching examples of what it feels like to be lonely. The hurt of feeling alone is not new to our day. Indeed, the pain of isolation echoes off the pages of the ancient book of Ecclesiastes. Often attributed to King Solomon, the book captures the sorrow of those who seem to lack any meaningful relationships (4:7–8). The speaker lamented that it is possible to acquire significant wealth, and yet experience no value from it, because there is no one to share it with. But the speaker also recognized the beauty of companionship, writing that friends help you accomplish more than you could achieve on your own (v. 9); companions help in times of need (v. 10); partners bring comfort (v. 11); and friends can provide protection in difficult situations (v. 12). Loneliness is a significant struggle, because God created us to offer, and receive, the benefits of friendship and community. If you’re feeling alone, pray that God would help you form meaningful connections with others. In the meantime, find encouragement in the reality that the believer is never truly alone, because Christ’s Spirit is always with us (Matthew 28:20).

Gail, Hazel and host Philippa are transported to Orkney as they explore the life and works of the poet and novelist George Mackay Brown OBE. Together with his biographer Maggie Fergusson and Colin Waters of the Scottish Poetry Library, they bring to light a writer who was at once a solitary soul and a raconteur, a lover and a drinker, a member of the Edinburgh literati yet fame-shy. From the oft-recited ‘Hamnavoe’ to the Booker-nominated ‘Beside the Ocean of Time’ Mackay Brown’s work sings of his island roots, interweaving life and social history with myth and legend. In this month’s travels through the magazine’s archives, Christopher Robbins and Rory Murphy tackle the high falutin literary rap of ‘Finnegans Wake’, and there are the usual wide-ranging recommendations for reading off the beaten track too. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 39 minutes; 59 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch (mailto:anna@foxedquarterly.com) with Anna in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. Rosemary Sutcliff’s Roman novels (https://foxedquarterly.com/products/rosemary-sutcliff-classic-childrens-books/) : The Eagle of the Ninth and The Silver Branch (1:30) Slightly Foxed Issue 63 (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-63-published-1-september-2019/) (2:17) The Scots Kitchen (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/fm-mcneill-scots-kitchen/) , F. M. McNeill (2:39) The Balkan Trilogy (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/olivia-manning-balkan-trilogy/) , Olivia Manning (2:56) Gaudy Night (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/gaudy-night/) , Dorothy L. Sayers (3:01) Boy (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/roald-dahl-boy/) and Going Solo (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/roald-dahl-going-solo-no-49/) , Roald Dahl (3:13) Attrib (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/eley-williams-attrib-and-other-stories/) , Eley Williams (5:15) Cousin Rosamund, the third title in Rebecca West’s Saga of the Century trilogy, is out of print (5:53) The Outrun (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/amy-liptrot-the-outrun-slightly-foxed/) , Amy Liptrot (6:04) George Mackay Brown: The Life, Maggie Fergusson is out of print (7:21) Greenvoe (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/george-mackey-brown-greenvoe/) , George Mackay Brown (19:20) Following a Lark: Poems, George Mackay Brown is out of print (21:05) Beside the Ocean of Time (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/geroge-mackay-brown-beside-the-ocean-of-time/) , George Mackay Brown (21:15) Finnegans Wake (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/james-joyce-finnegans-wake/) , James Joyce (24:54) Jeremy, Hugh Walpole is out of print (33:31) Slow Horses (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/mick-herron-slow-horses/) and Joe Country (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/mick-herron-joe-country/) , Mick Herron (34:57) Leaving Alexandria (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/richard-holloway-leaving-alexandria/) , Richard Holloway (36:21) Noctuary (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/niall-campbell-noctuary/) , Niall Campbell (37:28) Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump (https://shopcatalog.com/nobody-hates-trump-more-than-trump/) , David Shields (37:51) Related Slightly Foxed Articles  Porridge and the Shorter Catechism (https://foxedquarterly.com/f-m-mcneill-the-scots-kitchen-literary-review/) , Morag MacInnes on F. M. McNeill, The Scots Kitchen, Issue 63 (2:36) Hauntings (https://foxedquarterly.com/dorothy-l-sayers-gaudy-night-literary-review/) , Michèle Roberts on Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, Issue 63 (3:01) Sound Nonsense (https://foxedquarterly.com/james-joyce-finnegans-wake-literary-review/) , Christopher Robbins on James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Issue 22 (25:03) Other Links The Scottish Poetry Library (https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/) , Edinburgh (7:23) ‘Hamnavoe’ by George Mackay Brown is available to read in full on The Poetry Archive (https://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/hamnavoe) (12:58) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach Farewell to Stromness by Peter Maxwell Davies The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable (https://www.podcastable.co.uk/)

In this episode, Megan talks us through what happens when you ingest tiny amounts of radioactive material repeatedly over a long period of time, and a couple of court cases that helped pave the way for workplace safety regulations as we know them. We're talking about the Radium Girls. Email sisterlyhistorymysteries@gmail.com Instagram @sisterlypodcast Twitter @sisterlypodcast Ottowa Radium Dial company photo https://bit.ly/2YstTPV Company social for Orange USRC studio https://bit.ly/2OqkEM3 Catherine Donahue's bedside hearing https://bzfd.it/331nvyv Memorial Statue in Ottowa, IL https://bit.ly/2LR9CO5 Article by Maggie Fergusson in The Spectator https://bit.ly/2K4F2hQ Article by Kate Moore for Buzzfeed https://bzfd.it/2MvkOwN Article by Kate Moore for The Telegraph https://bit.ly/2Jgdzqj Article by Rebecca Herscher for NPR https://n.pr/2SWVkMn Episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class https://apple.co/329h4Z1 Find Megan at: @meganelainecarter (Insta), @meganecarter (Twitter), megancarter.net Find Carlie at: @carterrosesherman (Insta), @carterrosesherm (Twitter) Thanks for joining us - please take a second to rate, review, and subscribe!

Hazel, Jennie and host Philippa explore the art of travel writing with the acclaimed author and biographer Sara Wheeler, and Barnaby Rogerson of the well-loved independent publisher Eland Books. Buckle-up and join us on an audio adventure that takes in a coach trip around England, an Antarctic sojourn, a hairy incident involving a Victorian lady and her trusty tweed skirt and a journey across Russia in the footprints of its literary greats, with nods to Bruce Chatwin, Isabella Bird, Norman Lewis, Martha Gellhorn and Patrick Leigh Fermor along the way. And to bring us back down to earth, there’s the usual round-up of news from back home in Hoxton Square and plenty of recommendations for reading off the beaten track. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 39 minutes; 01 seconds) Books Mentioned Slightly Foxed Issue 62 (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-62-published-1-june-2019/) (2:05) The Fountain Overflows (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/rebecca-west-the-fountain-overflows/) , Volume I of Rebecca West’s ‘Saga of the Century’ (2:36) Something Wholesale (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/something-wholesale-no-41/) , Eric Newby (4:20) Love and War in the Apennines (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/eric-newby-love-and-war-in-the-apennines/) , Eric Newby (4:24) Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/sara-wheeler-terra-incognita/) , Sara Wheeler (8:00) A Dragon Apparent (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/norman-lewis-dragon-apparent/) , Norman Lewis (11:49) In Patagonia (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/bruce-chatwin-in-patagonia/) , Bruce Chatwin. Sara Wheeler abbreviates the opening line, which reads in full: ‘In my grandmother’s dining-room there was a glass-fronted cabinet and in the cabinet was a piece of skin.’ (18:39) Growing: Seven Years in Ceylon (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/leonard-woolf-growing/) and The Village in the Jungle (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/leonard-woolf-village-in-the-jungle/) , Leonard Woolf (19:50) Travels with Charley (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/steinbeck-travels-with-charley/) , John Steinbeck (20:35) Semi Invisible Man: The Life of Norman Lewis (https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/julian-evans/semi-invisible-man/9780330427081) , Julian Evans (21:09) Naples ‘44 (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/naples-44-norman-lewis/) , Norman Lewis (21:31) Passage to Juneau (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/jonathan-raban-passage-to-juneau/) , Jonathan Raban (22:24) Mud and Stars (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/sara-wheeler-mud-and-stars/) , Sara Wheeler, published 4 July 2019 (23:27) The Saddest Pleasure (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/moritz-thomsen-saddest-pleasure/) , Moritz Thomsen (24:29) A Time of Gifts (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/leigh-fermor-patrick-time-gifts-adventures-harriet/) and Between the Woods and the Water (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/leigh-fermor-patrick-woods-water-adventures-harriet/) , Patrick Leigh Fermor (25:16) Arabs (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/tim-mackintosh-smith-arabs/) , Tim Mackintosh-Smith (33:32) Lost in Translation (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/eva-hoffman-lost-translation/) , Eva Hoffman (34:31) A Woman in the Polar Night, Christiane Ritter is currently out of print. The edition with an introduction by Sara Wheeler will be published by Pushkin Press (https://www.pushkinpress.com/) in November 2019 (35:52) Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations Mood Music (https://foxedquarterly.com/rebecca-west-saga-of-the-century-literary-review/) , Rebecca Willis on Rebecca West’s ‘Saga of the Century’, Issue 62 (2:22) Ire and Irritability (https://foxedquarterly.com/jane-austen-sense-and-sensibility-literary-review/) , Pauline Melville on Sense and Sensibility, Issue 62 (2:56)  Travelling Fearlessly (https://foxedquarterly.com/colin-thubron-travel-writing-literary-review/) , Maggie Fergusson interviews Colin Thubron in Issue 58 (20:26) A Great Adventure (https://foxedquarterly.com/patrick-leigh-fermor-great-adventure/) , Andy Merrills on Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, Issue 38 (25:24) In Search of Home (https://foxedquarterly.com/eva-hoffman-lost-translation-literary-review/) , Sue Gee on Lost in Translation in Issue 55 (34:31) Other Links   The Slightly Foxed Podcast website page of episodes and reviews (https://foxedquarterly.com/category/podcast/) (1:00) Independent Bookshop Week 2019 (https://indiebookshopweek.org.uk/) , 15-22 June. Follow #IndieBookshopWeek and @booksaremybag online (3:38) Eland Books (https://www.travelbooks.co.uk/) (11:39) Katy MacMillan-Scott, Adventures for Harriet (https://www.adventuresforharriet.co.uk/) : Travelling from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul (31:45) Lodestars Anthology (https://www.lodestarsanthology.co.uk/) , selected issues available to buy from Slightly Foxed here (https://foxedquarterly.com/products/lodestars-anthology-travel-magazine/) (37:41) Rucksack Magazine (https://rucksackmag.com/) (37:58) Music and sound effects Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach Reading music: Lost Memories courtesy of FreeSfx.co.uk (http://www.freesfx.co.uk) The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable (https://www.podcastable.co.uk/)

Gail, Steph and Anna go behind the scenes with booksellers Brett Wolstencroft of Daunt Books and Kathleen Smith of Topping & Co. Bath to talk about the reality and romance of life running two of the country’s finest bookshops. Andrew Hawkins recounts the tale of a London publisher who tried his hand at repping and ended up in a spot of bother with a drunken poet in Fife, and there’s the usual round-up of recommended reading and news from Hoxton Square.  The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 38 minutes; 30 seconds) **Books Mentioned** * [Slightly Foxed Issue 62](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-62-published-1-june-2019/), will be published on 1 June. Available to order now (5:34) * Shaun Bythell, [The Diary of a Bookseller](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/shaun-bythell-diary-of-a-bookseller/) (30:12) * Jen Campbell, [Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/weird-things-customers-say-in-bookshops/) (30:16) * A Plain Foxed Edition of [84, Charing Cross Road](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/84-charing-cross-road-plain-foxed-edition/) will be published in September 2019. Available to order now (30:22) * Miriam Toews, [All My Puny Sorrows](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/miriam-toews-all-my-puny-sorrows/) (30:40) * Patrick O’Brian, [Master & Commander](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/patrick-obrian-master-and-commander/) and [The Far Side of the World](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/patrick-obrian-far-side-of-the-world/) (31:46) * Andrew Miller, [Now We Shall Be Entirely Free](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/andrew-miller-now-we-shall-be-entirely-free/) (32:36) * Angela Carter, [The Magic Toyshop](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/angela-carter-magic-toyshop/) and [The Bloody Chamber](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/angela-carter-bloody-chamber/) (33.02) **Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations** * Mike Petty’s article entitled [‘Up There on a Visit’](https://foxedquarterly.com/mike-petty-up-there-on-a-visit-literary-review/) was published in [Slightly Foxed Issue 8](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-8/) (23:14) * [Maggie Fergusson’s article](https://foxedquarterly.com/literary-love-affair-article-maggie-fergusson/) on Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road was originally published in Slightly Foxed [Issue 24](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-24/), then republished in [Issue 48](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/issue-48-winter-2015/). It appears as the preface to the Plain Foxed Edition of 84, Charing Cross Road (30:22) * Grant McIntyre’s three articles on Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin novels – [‘Friendship of Opposites’](https://foxedquarterly.com/grant-mcintyre-patrick-obrien-friendship-of-opposites/), [‘The House that Jack Built’](https://foxedquarterly.com/grant-mcintyre-patrick-obrien-house-that-jack-built/) and [‘O’Brian’s World’](https://foxedquarterly.com/grant-mcintyre-aubrey-maturin-novels-obriens-world/) – were published sequentially in Slightly Foxed Issues 40, 42 and 44 (30:46) **Other Links** * A full list of Slightly Foxed stockists can be found on our website: [Stockists](https://foxedquarterly.com/category/stockists/) (1:09) * [The Idler Festival](https://www.idler.co.uk/product/the-idler-festival-2019-at-fenton-house-weekend-ticket/), Hampstead, London, 12-14 July 2019 (3:28) * [The Llangwm Literary Fesitval](http://www.llangwmlitfest.co.uk/), Pembrokeshire, Wales, 9-11 August 2019 (3:34) * [Ways with Words Festival](https://www.wayswithwords.co.uk/), Dartington, Devon, 5-15 July 2019 (3:52) * [The Slightly Foxed 2019 Readers’ Day](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/readers-day-2019) will be held on Saturday 2 November at The Art Workers’ Guild in Bloomsbury, London. Tickets now available to Slightly Foxed magazine subscribers only. From £60 for a day ticket (4:10) * [Daunt Books](https://www.dauntb...

Gail, Hazel and Jennie talk to the artist and illustrator (and master of pastiche) David Eccles about the craft of marrying image and text. The actress Petra Markham takes to the airwaves with Posy Simmonds, and the printmaker Angie Lewin recalls her experience of being commissioned for a Slightly Foxed cover. **Books Mentioned** * Hugh Trevor-Roper, [The Last Days of Hitler](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/hugh-trevor-roper-last-days-of-hitler/) * Richard Kennedy, [A Boy at the Hogarth Press & A Parcel of Time](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/hogarth-press-richard-kennedy-plain-foxed/)  * Gwen Raverat, [Period Piece](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/period-piece-plain-foxed-edition-published-1-sept/) * E. H. Shepard, [Drawn from Memory and Drawn from Life](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/drawn-from-memory-no-44-drawn-from-life-no-45/) * A. A. Milne, [Winnie-the-Pooh](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/a-a-milne-winnie-the-pooh/) * Christopher Matthew, [Now We are Sixty](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/christopher-matthew-david-eccles-now-we-are-sixty/), with decorations by David Eccles  * The Slightly Foxed Cubs edition of The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff will be published in September 2019 * Posy Simmond’s latest book, [Cassandra Darke](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/posy-simmonds-cassandra-darke/) * Flowers for Mrs Harris by Paul Gallico is also known as [Mrs Harris Goes to Paris](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/paul-gallico-mrs-harris-goes-to-paris/), and is available in a single volume together with [Mrs Harris Goes to New York](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/paul-gallico-mrs-harris-goes-to-paris/).  * Elizabeth Jenkins, [The Tortoise and the Hare](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/elizabeth-jenkins-tortoise-and-the-hare/) * Mathias Enard, [Compass](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/mathias-enard-compass-fitzcarraldo-editions/) * Kathleen Hale’s autobiography, A Slender Reputation, is out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second-hand copies. Please [get in touch](https://foxedquarterly.com/help/) for details **Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations** * A wood engraving by [Hilary Paynter](http://hilarypaynter.com/) illustrates Adam Sisman’s article on The Last Days of Hitler in Slightly Foxed Issue 61 * [Slightly Foxed Issue 60](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-60-published-1-december-2018/) features the illustration ‘Office Life’ by Posy Simmonds * Christopher Robbins’s article on [Finnegans Wake](https://foxedquarterly.com/james-joyce-finnegans-wake-literary-review/) was published in [Slightly Foxed Issue 22](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-22/) * Angie Lewin is a printmaker and was the cover artist for [Slightly Foxed Issue 27](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-27/) * James Nunn provided a pastiche of Eric Ravilious for the cover of [Slightly Foxed Issue 17](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-17/) * Maggie Fergusson’s article on [Flowers for Mrs Harris](https://foxedquarterly.com/paul-gallico-flowers-for-mrs-harris-literary-review/) was published in [Slightly Foxed Issue 20](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-20/) * Nigel Andrew’s article on The Tortoise and the Hare was published in [Slightly Foxed Issue 60](https://foxedquarterly.com/elizabeth-jenkins-virago-hare-and-tortoise/) **Other Links** * The shortlist for the [2018 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize](https://foxedquarterly.com/slightly-foxed-best-first-biography-prize-shortlist-2018/).The award party will be held at [Maggs Bros](https://www.maggs.com/) * A full list of Slightly Foxed stockists can be found on our website: [Stockists](https://foxedquarterly.com/category/stockists/) * For subscriptions to Slightly Foxed magazine, visit [www.foxedquarterly.com](https://foxedquarterly.com/) **Thanks to** Angie Le...

ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE by Maggie Fergusson Earlier this year, the government appointed a Minister for Loneliness: a response to what has been called an ‘invisible epidemic’. Why are so many of us - of all ages and backgrounds - afflicted by loneliness? What does it feel like to be very lonely? And is there a cure? MAGGIE FERGUSSON is Literary Editor of The Tablet and a freelance writer. In the spring, she published a long piece on loneliness in the Economist magazine 1843. This resource is provided free. If you would like to support our mission to communicate and nurture meditation in the Christian tradition as passed on through the teaching of John Main OSB, please contribute here: tiny.cc/donatetoWCCM

He's a master storyteller who has left an indelible mark on countless children who’ve grown up with his stories. Now, the astonishing success of War Horse on stage and screen has made Michael Morpurgo a household name. Maggie Fergusson has written an intriguing biography of the writer, War Child, War Horse, which is interspersed with seven autobiographical short stories written by Morpurgo himself. In this event, recorded live at the 2012 Edinburgh International Book Festival, the two writers got together to tell us about their unique collaboration, chaired by Lindsay Fraser.

He's a master storyteller who has left an indelible mark on countless children who’ve grown up with his stories. Now, the astonishing success of War Horse on stage and screen has made Michael Morpurgo a household name. Maggie Fergusson has written an intriguing biography of the writer, War Child, War Horse, which is interspersed with seven autobiographical short stories written by Morpurgo himself. In this event, recorded live at the 2012 Edinburgh International Book Festival, the two writers got together to tell us about their unique collaboration, chaired by Lindsay Fraser.

With Mark Lawson. Director Ridley Scott returns to science fiction with Prometheus, starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender. It follows a group of scientists who travel to a distant world, where they encounter a threat to human existence. How does it compare to Scott's earlier blockbuster, Alien? Naomi Alderman gives her verdict. Michael Morpurgo and his biographer Maggie Fergusson discuss how they have collaborated on his life story, From War Child to War Horse. In seven chapters she describes how the unbookish boy who wanted to be an army officer became a best-selling children's author; and Michael responds with seven new stories. They reflect on the sometimes painful aspects of his childhood and his relationship with his own children. Jodie Whittaker and Christopher Eccleston star in a new National Theatre production of Antigone by Sophocles. Peter Kemp reviews. Ken Loach recently complained about the certificate awarded to The Angels' Share by the British Board of Film Classification. In order to qualify for a 15 certificate, several swear words had to be removed, prompting the director to observe that the middle class "is obsessed by what they call bad language." The BBFC's Head Of Policy, David Austin, defends the decision and reveals the detailed negotiations that take place behind the scenes between the board and film-makers. Producer Ellie Bury.