Sylvia Townsend Warner's debut novel 'Lolly Willowes' is the main book under discussion in this episode. It's nominated by journalist, author & playwright Samantha Ellis, and she discusses witchcraft, spinsters and the Chilterns with John, Andy and Mathew. Also touched on: epic poetry on Dartmoor in the rain, and J.B. Priestley's influence on David Bowie.

Books Mentioned:

• Andy Miller - The Year of reading Dangerously

• Samantha Ellis - How to be a Heroine

• Martin Shaw - Snowy Tower: Parzival and the Wet Black Branch of Language

• Charles A Foster - Being a Beast

• Thomas Thwaites - Goatman: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human

• John Yorke - Into the Woods

• Spike Milligan - Puckoon

• J. B. Priestley - English Journey

• Jessica Mitford - The American Way of Death

• Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes, Mr Fortune’s Maggot, The True Heart, After the Death of Don Juan, The Corner That Held Them

• George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier

• Paul Theroux - The Kingdom by the Sea

• Shaun Usher - Lists of Note

• Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre

• Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights

• Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own

• Charles Mackay - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

• Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan

Other Links:

• Dark Mountain Project

• HV Morton

• Sight and Sound Greatest Films

• JL Carr podcast