Salopian Youth

Stepping forward from the last such post, I mentioned Dorothy L Sayers. I suspect it is in the climax of one of her novels (Strong Poison) that I first heard and remembered a line from Housman's Shropshire Lad. This time, it did make it into the BBC Radio version - but I shall try to avoid sounding too much like Ian Carmichael. 

I've picked out two entries from A Shropshire Lad: XXXIV and LXII. XXXIV is shorter and, not just in subject matter, perhaps the most Kiplingesque. LXII's combination of classical reference, melancholy, bitter humour and rustic boozing is particularly memorable. 

Enjoy.

Product Placement

I enjoy the work of Dorothy L Sayers. She is known best as an author of detective stories, but she also wrote plays, translated Dante and created advertisements - as, for instance, 'Guinness is Good for You!'

Anyway, her novel Murder Must Advertise contains two montage-like sequences of advertising slogans. The adaptations of Murder (BBC Radio and Television, both with Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey) leave these out - which is a shame, as I rather think they have a good rhythm. So I have recorded both - please see below.

Enjoy.