Tea or Books? #43: scientists vs clergymen, and As It Was vs Fair Stood the Wind for France

Scientists! Vicars! H.E. Bates! Helen Thomas!   We’re popping in between holidays to record an episode about clergymen and scientists in novels – doubtless missing plenty of them, but thank you for everyone who tweeted in with your suggestions. We’d

Scientists! Vicars! H.E. Bates! Helen Thomas!

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We’re popping in between holidays to record an episode about clergymen and scientists in novels – doubtless missing plenty of them, but thank you for everyone who tweeted in with your suggestions. We’d love to hear more!

In the second half, we discuss Helen Thomas’s memoir As It Was (1926) and H.E. Bates’ novel Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944) – which turn out to have more in common than we feared (and less than we initially thought). It’s quite the rollercoaster, guys.

Do check out our iTunes page, and you should be able to rate and review through iTunes apps and maybe podcast apps and one day I’ll work out how this happens. Below are the books and authors we mention in this episode:

Poldark series by Winston Graham

The Brother Gardeners by Andrea Wulf

The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys

The Chateau by William Maxwell

The Boat by L.P. Hartley

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

A Perfect Woman by L.P. Hartley

Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Emma by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

Frost at Morning by Richmal Crompton

The Rector’s Daughter by F.M. Mayor

The Vicar’s Daughter by E.H. Young

The Clergyman’s Daughter by George Orwell

Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

Under the Rainbow by Susan Scarlett

Clothes-pegs by Susan Scarlett

A Room With a View by E.M. Forster

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Pastor’s Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

To The River by Olivia Laing

Appius and Virginia by G.E. Trevelyan

Hackenfeller’s Ape by Brigid Brophy

Dangerous Ages by Rose Macaulay

Agatha Christie

Oliver Sacks

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

The Island of Dr Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Margaret Atwood

Famous Five series by Enid Blyton

As It Was by Helen Thomas

Fair Stood The Wind for France by H.E. Bates

Edward Thomas

World Without End by Helen Thomas

The Darling Buds of May by H.E. Bates

Love for Lydia by H.E. Bates

Under Storm’s Wing by Helen Thomas

To Bed With Grand Music by Marghanita Laski

The Village by Marghanita Laski