Tea or Books? #30: artists vs musicians, and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie vs A Far Cry From Kensington

Muriel Spark, artists, and musicians in our final episode of 2016 – it was a fun one to record.   We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year, and fingers crossed for a wonderful 2017

Muriel Spark, artists, and musicians in our final episode of 2016 – it was a fun one to record.

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We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year, and fingers crossed for a wonderful 2017 for us all. Recording these episodes has certainly been a highlight in 2016, and we love hearing from you.

In the first half of the episode, we talk about artists and musicians in books – whether real or fictional – and which we prefer. Turning to our second section, we discuss an author I’ve been wanting to chat about the podcast for ages – Muriel Spark, more particularly The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and A Far Cry From Kensington.

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Here are the books and authors we discuss in this episode:

Round the Christmas Fire by Nancy Mitford, Laurie Lee, Truman Capote et al

Dickens at Christmas

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay

Mystery in White by J.J. Farjeon

Curiosity by Alberto Manguel

A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel

The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel

Stevenson under the Palm Trees by Alberto Manguel

Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West

Emma by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge (apologies for my terrible geography!)

Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton

Mapp and Lucia series by E.F. Benson

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (see the sculpture in my review)

House of Silence by Linda Gillard

Cazalet Chronciles by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Chessman

Summer in February by Jonathan Smith

Winnie and Wolf by A.N. Wilson

Evenfield by Rachel Ferguson

A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Child of Light by Muriel Spark

John Masefield by Muriel Spark

Barbara Pym

The Only Problem by Muriel Spark

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark

Memento Mori by Muriel Spark

The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark

The Takeover by Muriel Spark

R.C. Sherriff