# Julia Blackburn

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45: Ronald Blythe: A Life Well Written

‘I would like to be remembered as a good writer and a good man . . . Writers are observers. We are natural lookers, watchers . . . it seems to me quite wonderful that I have so long been able to make a living from something I love so much.’So wrote the writer, editor and famed chronicler of rural l…

“They do not know the Way"

Share [T]his proves beyond cavil that in 1820 Goya was a committed, indeed passionate liberal and anti-clerical… So fierce are the drawings on prisoners and the Inquisition, so explosive the joy at the Revolution of Riego, so merciless the exultation at the unfrocking of monks during the seculariz…

The Future is Now

With a potential vaccine for Covid on the horizon, Canada’s focus can now shift to rebuilding our economy. Of chief concern is how to avoid a K-shaped recovery: one that favours the highly skilled but leaves everyone else behind. Join Canadian Club Toronto on December 2 for a discussion of what sk…

Betsy and Napoleon by Julia Blackburn

Members get information about when streams/downloads become available, as well as accessing podcast RSS feeds for freely-available content to make listening to great shows a breeze, Register Here A BBC historical drama, based on actual contemporary accounts. The year is 1815.…

David Morrissey & Julia Blackburn

Actor David Morrissey and writer Julia Blackburn join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by John O'Hara, JD Salinger and Alexandra Fuller. Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara, Publisher: Vintage For Esme with Love and Squalor by JD Salinger Publisher: Penguin Don't Lets Go To The Do…

Do It In the Dust

The heat is on. Join us for “Do It In the Dust,” Episode 11 of The Sin Syndicate Podcast, where Gentry and Casey take a hike to Topanga Canyon and learn to love the lash as they ride with Ed Forsyth’s 1969 Nudie Western, “The Ramrodder.” In this episode we discuss the film’s Manson Family connectio…

Julia Blackburn & Sarah Clegg: Remedies

In Remedies (Hazel Press) playwright, poet, novelist, biographer, historian and much else besides Julia Blackburn meditates on the images, amulets and incantations that have been used to cure illnesses from ancient times to the present day, offering a set of poetic keys to unlock the mysterious, su…

David Morrissey & Julia Blackburn

Actor David Morrissey and writer Julia Blackburn join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by John O'Hara, JD Salinger and Alexandra Fuller. Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara, Publisher: Vintage For Esme with Love and Squalor by JD Salinger Publisher: Penguin Don't Lets Go To The Do…