Psychopomp and circumstance

This week, Margaret Drabble explores how Dickens drew on his love of the macabre and grotesque to create literary magic; and Norma Clarke takes a tour around the British coast. 'Dickens the enchanter: Inside the explosive imagination of the great storyteller', by Peter Conrad 'The restless coast: A journey around the edge of Britain', by Roger Morgan-Grenville 'Seascape: Notes from a changing coastline', by Matthew Yeomans 'The Shetland Way: Community and climate crisis on my father’s islands', by Marianne Brown Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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