Daisy Dunn

The shocking story of Charles and Mary Lamb: Slightly Foxed podcast reviewed

Plus: an oddly gripping podcast about teeth – and in praise of Susie Dent and Gyles Brandreth

'Charles and Mary Lamb', 1834, by Francis Stephen Cary. Photo: Granger/Shutterstock 
issue 07 November 2020

The Slightly Foxed podcast, like the quarterly and old bookshop of the same name, is almost muskily lovely. It’s the sort of thing you can imagine listening to with a dog at your feet and whisky by your side in a draughty Mitfordesque folly. Ordinarily, you might attribute its homeliness to the fact that it is recorded around a kitchen table.

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