Sam is joined from beyond the grave on this week’s Spectator Book Club by the late Laurie Lee — to talk about Gloucestershire’s Slad Valley, the landscape that made him a writer. Acting as medium, so to speak, is David Parker — whose 1990s interviews with Lee before his death provide the material for the new book *Down In The Valley: A Writer’s Landscape — *and who’s here to talk about the pleasures and difficulties of coaxing reminiscences out of this laureate of English rural life. Essential listening for anyone for whom *Cider With Rosie *and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning formed part of a literary education.
Presented by Sam Leith.
