Richard and Claire are joined by novelist David Nicholls to consider Sue Townsend’s 1982 novel The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾.
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Richard and Claire are joined by novelist Sarah Hall to consider Flora Thompson’s memoir Lark Rise to Candleford.
The bus was empty but for one passenger who sat halfway down the seats on the lower deck. The woman was the man’s wife and the boy’s mother and she was leaving.
Buying a council house is supposed to give working-class people the rights and privileges of middle-class homeowners. But it doesn’t.
Georgia Poplett’s introduction to the plot, characters and historical background of Sue Townsend’s novel about a young working-class intellectual in 1980s Leicester.
Lark Rise to Candleford is a classic of English working-class literature, but is commonly thought of as a cosy, nostalgic memoir. Why?
Craig McLean joins us to consider the place of Irvine Welsh’s novel in our library.
Whatever you think about Trainspotting, 30 years after publications, it’s a book that deserves to be taken seriously.
The bus was empty but for one passenger who sat halfway down the seats on the lower deck. The woman was the man’s wife and the boy’s mother and she was leaving.
The Government’s Welfare Bill isn’t about disability. It’s about turning the sick into scapegoats for the UK’s financial failures.
When the lasses piled in in Noughties Scarborough, the motives were not always what they seemed.
Buying a council house is supposed to give working-class people the rights and privileges of middle-class homeowners. But it doesn’t.
For my Punjabi-Malaysian family, preparing food was an act of love. Although that love did not extend to crustaceans.
I still love them, but in Tesco they can bring no end of trouble.
When she’s better, I’m finally going to make one for my mum.
In Wales, Nigel Farage is using nostalgia, work and class as weapons.
Craig McLean joins us to consider the place of Irvine Welsh’s novel in our library.
Whatever you think about Trainspotting, 30 years after publications, it’s a book that deserves to be taken seriously.
A 25-year love affair that started in a nightclub, and ended in communion with the history of a people.
**“In seaside towns, you find most people have come to escape something. That’s what brought me too, really.”** Photographer Carmina Ripollés on finding friendship among the sandcastles, arcades and ice-creams
