Slightly Foxed podcast

Slightly Foxed

The independent-minded book review magazine that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. Come behind the scenes with the staff of Slightly Foxed to learn what makes this unusual literary magazine tick, meet some of its varied friends and contributors, and hear their personal recommendations for favourite and often forgotten books that have helped, haunted, informed or entertained them. For more information about Slightly Foxed visit:  [foxedquarterly.com] (https://www.foxedquarterly.com)

The independent-minded book review magazine that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. Come behind the scenes with the staff of Slightly Foxed to learn what makes this unusual literary magazine tick, meet some of its varied friends and contributors, and hear their personal recommendations for favourite and often forgotten books that have helped, haunted, informed or entertained them. For more information about Slightly Foxed visit:  [foxedquarterly.com] (https://www.foxedquarterly.com)

 

#57

55: At Home with the Brontës

There has never been a literary family quite like the Brontës. In our autumn podcast Ann D... more

15 Oct 2025

52 MINS

52:29

15 Oct 2025


#56

54: The Many Lives of Muriel Spark

It’s been said that Muriel Spark’s career was not so much a life as a plot, and she did in... more

15 Jul 2025

57 MINS

57:58

15 Jul 2025


#55

53: Dervla Murphy: A Life at Full Tilt

Described as ‘the first lady of Irish cycling’, Dervla Murphy was renowned for her intrepi... more

15 Apr 2025

59 MINS

59:03

15 Apr 2025


#54

52: William Golding: A Literary Colossus

The first title that springs to mind at the mention of William Golding’s name is most ofte... more

15 Jan 2025

59 MINS

59:06

15 Jan 2025


#53

51: John le Carré: Secrets & Lies

‘David at his worst was a liar but John le Carré at his best was a truth teller.’ These we... more

15 Oct 2024

51 MINS

51:04

15 Oct 2024


#52

50: Barbara Comyns: Stranger than Fiction

 Any mention of Barbara Comyns usually brings an ‘I know the name but I don’t know anythin... more

15 Jul 2024

56 MINS

56:48

15 Jul 2024


#51

My Salinger Year: Joanna Rakoff & Rosie Goldsmith in Conversation

‘There was no voicemail. I was the voicemail.’ In this out-of-series special episode of th... more

10 May 2024

57 MINS

57:43

10 May 2024


#50

49: Down to Earth: A Farming Revival

Sarah Langford, author of [Rooted: How Regenerative Farming Can Change the World] (https:/... more

15 Apr 2024

46 MINS

46:12

15 Apr 2024


#49

48: Dear Dodie

Dodie Smith was a phenomenally prolific writer who experienced huge success in her lifetim... more

15 Jan 2024

54 MINS

54:39

15 Jan 2024


#48

47: Aspects of Orwell

D. J. Taylor, literary critic, novelist and Whitbread Prize-winning author of the definiti... more

15 Oct 2023

58 MINS

58:27

15 Oct 2023


#47

46: Return to Kettle’s Yard

Laura Freeman, chief art critic at The Times and author of [Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the ... more

15 Jul 2023

54 MINS

54:17

15 Jul 2023


#46

45: Ronald Blythe: A Life Well Written

‘I would like to be remembered as a good writer and a good man . . . Writers are observers... more

15 Apr 2023

59 MINS

59:46

15 Apr 2023


#45

44: Jean Rhys: Voyages in the Dark

The writer Jean Rhys is best known for Wide Sargasso Sea, her haunting prequel to Jane Eyr... more

15 Jan 2023

59 MINS

59:47

15 Jan 2023


#44

43: Dinner with Joseph Johnson

Bookseller, publisher, Dissenter and dinner-party host, Joseph Johnson was a great enabler... more

15 Oct 2022

59 MINS

59:37

15 Oct 2022


#43

42: Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

Paddy Leigh Fermor was just 18 when he set forth from the Hook of Holland, bound for the G... more

15 Jul 2022

59 MINS

59:44

15 Jul 2022


#42

41: Barbara Pym and Other Excellent Women

A latter-day Austen, an academic, a romantic, a comic, a caustic chronicler of the commonp... more

15 Apr 2022

57 MINS

57:16

15 Apr 2022


#41

40: Adrian Bell: Back to the Land

The farmer-cum-writer Adrian Bell is best-known for his rural trilogy of Suffolk farming l... more

15 Feb 2022

42 MINS

42:18

15 Feb 2022