The Curiously Specific Book Club
By Lloyd Shepherd & Tim Wright
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Forget Downton Abbey or The Crown, we use classic novels to guide you through the Britain of today and yesterday. Every podcast, Lloyd & Tim – two funny book-loving blokes – take you on a walk or a road trip, using a well-known novel as the only guide. Great literature, amazing landscapes and general laughter guaranteed with every episode.Your presenters are:Tim Wright (r): digital writer/consultant for web, mobile, radio, TV, theatre. Half of xpt.com. Former Head of Immersive at NFTS. Web here, Twitter here.Lloyd Shepherd (l): author of 4 novels: The English Monster. The Poisoned Island. Savage Magic. The Detective and the Devil. Also does digital product development. Web here, Twitter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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John Buchan’s THE 39 STEPS Part 2: hit the beach at North Foreland, Kent, in search of dastardly German spies
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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John Buchan’s THE 39 STEPS Part 1: experience the thrill of a chase through Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Margot Bennett’s THE WIDOW OF BATH Part Two: a North Foreland discovery
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Margot Bennett’s THE WIDOW OF BATH Part One: Shady goings-on in Ramsgate
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Geoffrey Household’s ROGUE MALE Part 2: pursuit across Dorset – tracking down a secret holloway-hideaway
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Geoffrey Household’s ROGUE MALE Part 1: pursuit across London – Hurlingham steps to the Aldwych tube
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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AA Milne’s WHEN WE WE VERY YOUNG Part 2: the ghost of a golf course, and a swan called Pooh
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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AA Milne’s WHEN WE VERY YOUNG Part 1: down to Buckingham Palace with Alice
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Alice Oswald’s DART Part 2: from Buckfast Abbey to the Mew Stone via a derelict dairy and a boatyard
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Alice Oswald’s DART Part 1: Dartmoor to Buckfastleigh on foot, in a car – and on a steam train!
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May 29, 2023 |
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Edward Thomas’s IN PURSUIT OF SPRING Part Two: From Rudge to the Quantocks
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May 22, 2023 |
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Edward Thomas’s IN PURSUIT OF SPRING Part One: From Clapham to Salisbury
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May 15, 2023 |
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Nell Dunn’s UP THE JUNCTION Part 2: drill rap, sweets and trains on the Winstanley Estate, Battersea
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May 08, 2023 |
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Nell Dunn’s UP THE JUNCTION Part 1: from glamorous Chelsea to industrial Battersea
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May 01, 2023 |
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Hanif Kureishi’s THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA Part Two: Go West, Young Man
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Hanif Kureishi’s THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA Part One: From Bromley to Penge
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Angela Carter’s WISE CHILDREN Part 2: drinking, dancing & writing in Clapham, London
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Angela Carter’s WISE CHILDREN Part 1: the lost theatres, music halls & cinemas of South London
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Ruth Rendell’s FROM DOON WITH DEATH Part Two: The body in the woods
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Ruth Rendell’s FROM DOON WITH DEATH Part One: Searching for Kingsmarkham
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Dorothy L Sayers’s THE NINE TAILORS Part 2: inspecting drains and viewing sluices in the soggy Fens
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Dorothy L Sayers’s THE NINE TAILORS Part 1: motoring across the Fens in search of bellringers
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Agatha Christie’s THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD Part Two – a young writer’s imagination
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Agatha Christie’s THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD Part One – Poirot’s house and Poirot’s marrows
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Ben Aaronovitch‘s RIVERS OF LONDON Part 2: from Mister Punch at Covent Garden to Old Mother Thames at Wapping
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Ben Aaronovitch‘s RIVERS OF LONDON Part 1: following the Thames from source to outer London
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Peter Ackroyd’s HAWKSMOOR Part Two
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Peter Ackroyd’s HAWKSMOOR Part One
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere Part Two: discovering an ancient wall in the Barbican, plus many other London underground secrets
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere Part One: wandering across London – from Albert Bridge to Soho – in search of portals to the underworld
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Now That's Curiously Specific Part Two: Lloyd's Festive Five
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Now That’s Curiously Specific Part One: Tim’s Festive Five
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Mayor of Casterbridge Part Two: A skimmity ride beyond the city walls
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Mayor of Casterbridge Part One: Is it Casterbridge? Or is it Dorchester?
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Rebecca Part Two: completing a sunny circular walk around Manderley/Menabilly
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Rebecca Part One: we’re off to Fowey in Cornwall in search of Manderley
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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The Remains of the Day Part Two: what the hell are we doing on Dartmoor?
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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The Remains of the Day Part One: a repressed butler drives to the West
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Life After Life Part Two: swanky Kensington pads and WW2 Soho drinking dens
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Life After Life Part One: exploring the Buckinghamshire stockbroker belt
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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The Night Watch Part Two: a walk through a City of London air raid
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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The Night Watch Part One: ‘conchies’, air raids and hidden love
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Crooked Heart Part Two: a wartime wander in North London
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Crooked Heart Part One: join us on an evacuation to St Albans
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Get Carter Part Two: The quarry and the Humber
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Get Carter Part One: Welcome to Scunthorpe
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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A Kestrel for a Knave Part Two: getting lost
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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A Kestrel for a Knave Part One: to Barnsley and Hoyland Common
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Cold Water Part Two: a walk in search of Manchester (and Salford) bars
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Cold Water Part One: a drive from Macclesfield to central Manchester
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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The Rats Part Two: Poplar and the Regent’s Canal
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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The Rats Part One: Whitechapel to Stepney
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Dracula Part Two: Gunpowder, graves and insanity
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Dracula Part One: Sea and ships, graves and benches
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Woman in Black Part Two: The flat lands
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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The Woman in Black Part One: Yorkshire hauntings
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May 30, 2022 |
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Day of the Triffids Part Two: Escape to Sussex
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May 23, 2022 |
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Day of the Triffids Part One: Darkness falls on London!
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May 16, 2022 |
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Riddley Walker Part Two
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May 04, 2022 |
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Riddley Walker Part One
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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The War of the Worlds Part Two
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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The War of the Worlds Part One
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Track down Smiley's Circus in 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy': S1 Ep15
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Practise being a spy in Noughties London in 'Slow Horses': S1 Ep14
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Explore swinging 60s Soho with 'The Ipcress File': S1 Ep13
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Discover the seamier side of 1980s Brighton & Hove with 'Dirty Weekend': S1 Ep12
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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Enjoy the 1930s West London & Brighton drinking holes of 'Hangover Square': S1 Ep11
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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Find out exactly where Pinkie lived & died in 'Brighton Rock': S1 Ep10
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May 17, 2019 |
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Using Lovejoy novels to navigate 1970s Essex: S1 Ep9
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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Walk across Suffolk with 'The Rings of Saturn' as your only guide: S1 Ep8
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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Plan your own 1943 invasion of Norfolk using 'The Eagle Has Landed': S1 Ep7
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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A 1950s pub crawl through South London with 'The Ballad of Peckham Rye': S1 Ep6
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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1880s London West End erotica & beer-drinking with 'The Secret Agent': S1 Ep5
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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Tramp the Old Ways in 1970s Eton and Windsor with 'The Dark Is Rising': S1 Ep4
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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Learn to drive down the A20 like Bond in 'Moonraker': S1 Ep3
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Jul 13, 2018 |
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S1 Ep 2 Extra: Eccleshare on Stig
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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A tour of rural Kent in search of Stig of the Dump: S1 Ep2
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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Travel to 1840s Rochester with 'Edwin Drood': S1 Ep1 (pilot)
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May 11, 2018 |