Vanishing childhood
One of the great failings of the adult world is the collateral damage inflicted on children, with trauma yanking them...
Liver-thick mud
A touching recollection by Seamus Heaney of a moment decades before which wedded him to a particular landscape. I like...
Glee at the sea
Listening time: under 4 minutes.
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Pigtail prejudice
A charming example of prejudice, demonstrating its capacity to target just about anything, and with bewildering precision and disregard for...
Out into the world
Maxim Gorky's childhood was a bed of harshness softened by rays of light and kindness, principally from his long-suffering grandmother. ...
Squashed-fly biscuit
A hard, flat, rectangular British biscuit formally called ‘Garibaldi’, we called them ‘squashed-fly biscuits’ because of the tiny dark currants that...
Remember, like it or not
Maxim Gorky's (1868-1936) childhood was scored with regular beatings, some life-threatening, by his grandfather. His resilience, emotional as much as...
I shall teach the boy…
The Countess of Gormenghast ponders her personal curriculum for her newborn son, after despatching him to a régime of...
And I shall teach the boy
Listening time: under 4 minutes.
The Countess of Gormenghast ponders her personal curriculum for her newborn son Titus,...
Normality and absurdity
Grossman is a master of capturing tiny details that show something touchingly ordinary in an extraordinary setting. Here, modelled on...
Feisty boy fights back
Goncharov's description of Andrey as a little boy brings to life a robust, cheery, fearless little character.  Here he meets...
Rheumy-eyed earl
Adam Nicolson appears to have grown up among the casual antiquity of aristocratic homes, leaving him with the childhood memory...
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