Listening in

    The Vintage Podcast is a year old, and I've just been listening to the latest edition which includes items as varied as Wade Davis talking about the background to his book Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest - the statistics relating to the war, which he gives at around the five minute mark, are staggering; Peter Doggett on The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The 1970s (DB: the ultimate "enthusiast and autodidact", a man with a voracious appetite for literature of all kinds - and here he is), and Ianthe Ruthven on Animal London, a spotter's guide to the animals which adorn London's buildings.

    The Scottish Review of Books has a podcast, too, and if you click here and scroll down to number 4, from nine minutes in you can hear the novelist Candia McWilliam - who is always worth listening to - discussing (over the noise of hoovering or some such) her experience of being a Booker judge. Incidentally, the SRB currently have a 'buy one, get one free for friends and family' offer on subscriptions. I can't find a reference to it on their website, but I can forward an application form to anyone who is interested.      

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    I've had Candia McWilliam's What to Look for in Winter, her memoir of her blindness (which is published, not by Bloomsbury as the podcast says, but - neatly - by Vintage!), on my wish list since it came out; have you read it?       

Comments

[B R Wombat]

Yes, I read What To Look For In Winter earlier this year. It's a remarkable book, rather difficult to follow in places, which is not surprising considering how Candia McWilliam had to go about writing it. She certainly has had an eventful life, full of interesting people and she has faced her problems with great courage.

[Cornflower]

I must get it!