Showing posts with label Malcolm Saville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malcolm Saville. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Myth and mystery on the Stiperstones ridge

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This video from Britannia Unconsidered has a little Shropshire hillporn and rather more folklore. It's Wild Edric and his Hunt that Jen...
Monday, October 26, 2026

A new article for Central Bylines: We shouldn’t laugh at Ladybird books but celebrate them

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I've a new article on Central Bylines this morning: it's a defence of the much-misunderstood Ladybird Books: The classic Ladybird B...
Saturday, October 17, 2026

An article for Lion & Unicorn: Malcolm Saville and the children’s holiday adventure

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I'm back on Lion & Unicorn today with an article on the children's writer Malcolm Saville . I look at adventure stories in gener...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

How Joan Aiken fought to defend the wolves of Willoughby Chase

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For years the children's books magazine Books for Keeps published a series of interviews with authors – there was one of these 'aut...
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Monday, August 03, 2026

Northwood Lane, Bewdley: The Elan Valley Aqueduct, The Singing Detective and Jonathan Meades

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Fire broke out beside the Severn Valley Railway (SVR) bear Bewdley yesterday, reports the Shropshire Star . I don't know if it was cause...
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Monday, July 27, 2026

The Fenland floods of 1947

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A film about farming and the harsh winter of 1946/7. In particular, about the flooding that hit the Fens when the snow finally thawed and th...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

Petula Clark remembers making Trouble at Townsend

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One of Petula Clark's early films in her child star days was Trouble at Townsend , which was based on a short story by this blog's h...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Something amazing: A Shropshire businessman falling out of the sky and Mystery at Witchend

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The latest Secret Shropshire programme on BBC Sounds is intriguing: In 1937 Max Wenner fell to his death from a plane in one of aviation...
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Friday, January 09, 2026

Steam to the Sea! The Southwold Railway Story

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This is from Malcolm Saville's introduction to Sea Witch Comes Home, his story inspired by the East Coast floods of 1953: Every mile of ...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Malcolm Saville inspired Vera, Ruth Galloway and Slow Horses

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The Gold Edition interviews the crime writer Ann Cleeves, some of whose books have been adapted to make the television series Vera: What ar...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

John Rogers discovers the lost city of Winchelsea

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This is a lovely walk – I've done the stretch from Rye to Camber Castle myself.  John's blurb on YouTube says: This walk takes on a ...
Wednesday, September 03, 2025

That time 11 years ago when I upset Enid Blyton fans

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Asked by the late David Boyle, who used to do freelance shifts on the newspaper's comment desk, I once wrote a piece on children's l...
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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Book Review... All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between by Mike Parker

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This review appears in the new issue of Liberator. You can download it free of charge from the magazine's website. All the Wide Border:...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

"Let’s get him out before he poisons all the fishes": Robert Jenrick in the River Teme at Leintwardine

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What the hell is Robert Jenrick doing in the River Teme at Leintwardine? Readers of this blog will remember that Malcolm Saville's 11th...
Monday, May 05, 2025

Why Snailbeach and the Stiperstones saw the best Lib Dem result last Thursday

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The candidate who won the highest percentage vote in any contest last Thursday was the Liberal Democrat Heather Kidd in Shropshire Council...
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Friday, April 25, 2025

Ed Davey, Nick Clegg, Paddy Ashdown... and hedgehogs

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Ed Davey has posted this charming photo of him and Victoria Collins visiting a hedgehog sanctuary in Harpenden. It puts me in mind of a Lib...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

If Enid Blyton was the Beatles then Malcolm Saville was the Kinks

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Now here's a title for a blog post:  The Famous Five vs The Lone Pine Club . It's on the blog Unpopular Culture. I shall resist the ...
Sunday, March 02, 2025

Return to Malcolm Saville's The Neglected Mountain

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In 2012 Miranda's Island listed the ingredients of the classic children's adventure story: I mean the kind of rural holiday locatio...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Malcolm Saville visits Shrewsbury in 1963

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Malcolm Saville was a Sussex man, but his most popular books were those set in the Shropshire hills. This advertisement from the Wellington ...
Friday, February 07, 2025

The Making of Gone to Earth 1

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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger film of Mary Webb's novel Gone to Earth was released in 1950. The Stiperstones shot in Technicolo...