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April 10, 2025 52 mins

This week, Margaret Drabble explores how Dickens drew on his love of the macabre and grotesque to create literary magic; and Norma Clarke takes a tour around the British coast.


'Dickens the enchanter: Inside the explosive imagination of the great storyteller', by Peter Conrad

'The restless coast: A journey around the edge of Britain', by Roger Morgan-Grenville

'Seascape: Notes from a changing coastline', by Matthew Yeomans

'The Shetland Way: Community and climate crisis on my father’s islands', by Marianne Brown


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