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The Book Club: Madeleine Bunting

The Book Club: Madeleine Bunting

Best of the Spectator · The Spectator

May 10, 202348m 50s

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<div>In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is the writer Madeleine Bunting, whose new book is <em>The Seaside: England's Love Affair. </em>She tells me how the great seaside resorts came into their 19th century pomp, how abrupt was their mid-century decline, and of the terrible desolation that has succeeded the idyll of donkey rides, ices and fish and chips.</div> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>