On Wednesday's show
Fortified by plum pudding and a decent holiday, Lyn Baines brings us some new titles that are worth whiling away some time with. Clarissa Dickson-Wright has a new cook book out, Clarissa's comfort food. If you know of her, or of Two Fat Ladies you will know that you are in for an entertaining read; but even if you don't know her, but hunger for new and readable cook books, then Clarissa's comfort food, the many Fat Lady cook books, and her autobiography Spilling the beans are all full of good things.
Ian McIntyre was Controller of BBC Radio 3 for nine years and is a former associate editor of The Times. He is the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Robert Burns and more. In Hester : the remarkable life of Dr Johnson's 'dear mistress' he has tackled the relationship of Hester Thrale with Dr Samuel Johnson, which has been the subject of endless speculation. She was his confidante, she wrote about him, to his and Boswell's irritation, and was one of the most remarkable women of her time.
A little further back in English history, Trea Martyn comes to the Elizabethan period through the rivalry of two courtiers, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and William Cecil who attempted to outdo each other in the creation of magnificent pleasure gardens and festivities to entertain Elizabeth I. Elizabeth in the garden is about two great gardens, the gardeners, the owners, and the place gardens had in the social life of the times.
---- Lesley
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