273: Boswell Book Festival 2022

Published: May 27, 2022, 11:55 a.m.

Robert Kirkwood takes us to Dumfries House in Ayrshire for the Boswell Book Festival, the world's only festival of biography and memoir.\xa0
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\nWe hear from Keith Brymer Jones, host of the Great Pottery Throwdown and author of Boy in a China Shop,\xa0
\nKatherine McInnes tells us about the Snow Widows left behind by Scott's ill-fated South Pole mission,\xa0
\nAndrew O'Hagan talks about his book Mayflies and his old job at Blind Veterans UK,\xa0
\nEmma Soames edits her mother's diaries for Mary Churchill's War,
\nGiles Milton has some Fascinating Footnotes from History,\xa0
\nFrank Skinner and Denise Mina talk about retracing Johnson and Boswell's Grand Tour of Scotland,\xa0
\nLady Glenconner talks about her depiction in The Crown and narrating an audiobook at 89, and we return to Keith Brymer Jones for the books of his life.