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Birds of a Feather
FromThe TLS Podcast
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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Feb 24, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Jeremy Mynott, the author of ‘Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience’ and ‘Birds in the Ancient World’, to ponder 12,000 years of human–bird relations. ‘How is it that, despite a historically deep-rooted veneration, we could also have predated, exploited and depleted bird populations to the point where more than one in ten species is now threatened with extinction?’; and Janet Montefiore, Chair of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society, asks whether this vivid and varied satirical novelist might finally take her place alongside Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen among the canon of accepted classics? Plus, a Life of the poet Valentine Ackland, still best known as Warner’s partner‘Flight From Grace: A cultural history of humans and birds’ by Richard Pope ‘Avian Illuminations: A cultural history of birds’ by Boria Sax‘Birds and Us: A 12,000-year history: from cave art to conservation’ by Tim Birkhead ‘Valentine Ackland: A transgressive life’ by Frances Bingham‘Lolly Willowes’, ‘Mr Fortune’s Maggot’, ‘ The True Heart’, ‘Summer Will Show’, etc, by Sylvia Townsend Warner – for other books by Warner, find Janet Montefiore’s article at the-tls.co.uk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Feb 24, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Robert Herrick and John Evelyn: Michael Caines reads a selection of verses by the seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick, as well as a remarkable and little-known elegy by the diarist John Evelyn. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and... by The TLS Podcast