![]() ![]() The discussion covers examines what inspired Frank’s love of reading when he was growing up, and includes favourite books by T.H. Today we’re joined by the award-winning novelist and screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce, an official friend of Backlisted, who returns for the first time since his appearance on the Christmas 2021 episode on The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit, one of our most popular shows. They differ from the usual Backlisted format in that they feature just one guest choosing a number of books in an area they know and care about. ![]() These specials are designed to fill the gap until the show proper returns in April. Welcome to our first Backlisted special of 2023. Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen (documentary, 2019) Raymond Briggs discusses Fungus the Bogeyman on TV, 1979 Raymond Briggs, Desert Island Discs, 2005 Raymond Briggs, Desert Island Discs, 1983 Paul McCartney - ‘Bogey Music’ from McCartney II (1980) Tom de Freston - Wreck: Géricault’s Raft and the Art of Being Lost at SeaĮdmund Burke - A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublimeĭavid Bowie introduction to The Snowman, 1984 Raymond Briggs - Fungus the Bogeyman Father Christmas The Snowman When the Wind Blows Ethel & Ernest UG: Boy Genius of the Stone Age and His Search for Soft Trousers The Man Notes from the Sofa Time For Lights Out ![]() Also in this episode Andy talks about issues raised by reading Laugh a Defiance, a long out-of-print memoir by campaigner Mary Richardson while John shares his enthusiasm for Jessica Au's new novel, Cold Enough For Snow (Fitzcarraldo). In memory of Raymond Briggs, who died in August, we are replaying the episode where John and Andy were joined by author-illustrator Nadia Shireen and writer Andrew Male for a smellybration of Fungus the Bogeyman (1977) with a new introduction recorded by Andy.Īs well as Fungus, the much-loved and bestselling picture book Andrew describes as ‘the children's Anatomy of Melancholy’, we consider Briggs's life and work in full: Father Christmas, The Snowman, When the Wind Blows, Ethel & Ernest and the sepulchral Time For Lights Out(2019), his latest - and perhaps last - book we also hear several times from the (often very funny) author himself. ![]()
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