273: Boswell Book Festival 2022
Robert Kirkwood takes us to Dumfries House in Ayrshire for the Boswell Book Festival, the world's only festival of biography and memoir. We hear from Keith Brymer Jones, host of the Great Pottery Throwdown and author of Boy in a China Shop, Katherine McInnes tells us about the Snow Widows left behind by Scott's ill-fated South Pole mission, Andrew O'Hagan talks about his book Mayflies and his old job at Blind Veterans UK, Emma Soames edits her mother's diaries for Mary Churchill's War, Giles Milton has some Fascinating Footnotes from History, Frank Skinner and Denise Mina talk about retracing Johnson and Boswell's Grand Tour of Scotland, Lady 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.