In Episode 2: The Oldest Paper in the World Gail, Hazel and Jennie talk to Frances Wood, librarian, sinologue and former head of the Chinese Collection at the British Library; Andrew Hawkins recounts the story of the oldest paper in the world; and we find out which books our readers are hoping for this Christmas. www.foxedquarterly.com/pod

Books Mentioned

Ernest H. Shepard illustrated Winnie-the-Pooh and Wind in the Willows. His memoirs are Drawn from Memory and Drawn from Life
A Country Doctor’s Commonplace Book
Issue 60 of Slightly Foxed
David Seabrook, All the Devils Are Here
Jonathan Coe, Middle England
Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Max Hastings, Vietnam
Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts
Germain Greer’s White Beech is out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second hand copies. Please get in touch for details
Michael Palin, Erebus: The Story of a Ship
Sebastian Fauks, Paris Echo
BB’s books are Brendon Chase, The Little Grey Men and Down the Bright Stream
Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Hilary Spurling, Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
Carys Davies, West
Sally Rooney, Normal People
Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room
Katie Stewart’s Times Cookery Book is out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second hand copies. Please get in touch for details
Julian Barnes, The Pedant in the Kitchen
Nigel Slater, The Christmas Chronicles
Qiu Xiaolong’s Detective Chen series begins with Death of a Red Heroine
Frances Wood, Hand-grenade Practice in Peking

Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations

Luna North produced the cover for Issue 59 of Slightly Foxed, Autumn 2018
Frances Wood’s article, The Oldest Paper in the World, appeared in Issue 27 of Slightly Foxed, Autumn 2014

Other Links

The Slightly Foxed Readers’ Day 2018 took place on 9 November at the Art Workers’ Guild. Our speakers were:
Miranda Seymour, who talked about Byron's wife and daughter, Annabella Milbanke & Ada Lovelace
Edmond Gordon, whose biography The Invention of Angela Carter won the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2017
Penelope Lively and Ursula Buchan discussed two of their passions; writing and gardening
St Jude’s artists: Angie Lewin, Chloe Cheese and Christopher Brown
Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler magazine
Details on our Writing Competition can be found here
The Diamond Sutra is still available to see in the British Library
Slightly Foxed is printed and bound by Smith Settle
The Birth of a Book video can be seen here
Music and sound effects:

Music for reading from The Oldest Paper in the World is Meditations on Life by Matthew Huffaker, Teknoaxe and made available under Creative Commons 4.0 license (no changes made).

Sound effect of sleigh bells thanks to Gowler Music via FreeSound.org under Creative Commons Attribution Licence 3.0 (no changes made).
The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable