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These are podcasts about forgotten fiction, for curious readers, and for anyone who likes old books. Sometimes they're stories, sometimes they're not. Most of the authors write in English; and sometimes they don't. But all the books I talk about, I really really like. I hope you will too.

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My name is Kate Macdonald: I'm an English lecturer, and a lifelong browser in second-hand bookshops. I post weekly ten-minute podcasts on a Friday, on the books I really like which I think deserve new readers. You can find out lots more at the Facebook page here, and get these podcasts weekly by subscribing on the iTunes link above.

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Thu, 28 June 2012

Robert Gibbings and Sweet Thames Run Softly - Nature Writing

Robert Gibbings's picaresque account of a meander down the Thames, from source to Windsor Castle, in a home-made punt and with a microscope, is a blissful immersion into inter-war natural history. Sweet Thames Run Softly holds hundreds of stories about plants and wildlife, swan maidens included. For those who embrace the mud as a brother.

Direct download: Robert_Gibbings_and_Sweet_Thames_Run_Softly_-_Nature_Writing.mp3
Category:the great outdoors -- posted at: 11:30 PM

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