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Hawking, Richard

Richard Hawking is the author of At the Field’s Edge: Adrian Bell and the English Countryside and chairman of the Adrian Bell Society, and he has introduced and selected a collection of Adrian Bell’s Eastern Daily Press newspaper columns, published by Slightly Foxed as A Countryman’s Winter Notebook.

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20220215094036 Foxed Pod Episode 40 | Adrian Bell: Back to the Land

Episode 40: Adrian Bell: Back to the Land

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The farmer-cum-writer Adrian Bell is best-known for his rural trilogy of Suffolk farming life, Corduroy, Silver Ley and The Cherry Tree. To explore Bell’s life and writing the Slightly Foxed editors are joined by Richard Hawking, chairman of the Adrian Bell Society, author of At the Field’s Edge: Adrian Bell and the English Countryside and editor of A Countryman’s Winter Notebook, a selection of Bell’s newspaper columns. From the pride of the wagon maker, the repeal of the corn act in the 1920s and the heartbreak of farmers going bankrupt to his bohemian mother making butter, his friend John Nash illustrating Men and the Fields and Second World War soldiers packing Corduroy in their kit bags, we learn that Bell is the perfect writer to reconnect people with the land, one whose work still feels relevant today. And in our usual round-up of recommended reading we enter Walter de la Mare’s dreams, explore Shackleton’s Antarctica and visit Catherine Fox’s fictional Lindchester, the setting for her glorious twenty-first-century Trollopian tales.

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