My long time preferred bedtime listening has been Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time. It’s intelligent, discursive and not aggressive or shrieky.
The recent news that he has left the programme has made me search a little wider.
I’ve discovered other podcasts.
Not Just the Tudors, presented by Suzannah Lipscomb, covers aspects of that period of history, usually as a discussi0n with one guest.
Betwixt the Sheets, presented by sex historian Kate Lister, looks at sexual behaviour and stories ‘that’d make you history teacher blush’.
But at the moment I’m enjoying Shedunnit, presented by Caroline Crampton, which discusses detective fiction and writers, mainly from the Golden Age of the whodunnit, between the first and second World Wars.
As a result I’ve read a couple of titles from ECR Lorac, both set in WW2 - and thoroughly enjoyed them - Bats in the Belfry and Murder by Matchlight.
For a change I’ll probably read some of Dorothy L Sayers. I read some long ago, but really can’t say I remember either the titles or the stories now.
