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S4E4 That's how we got to Orkney
Join the team as they write their very own appendix to the Orkneyinga Saga, having decided, quite sensibly, to attempt to travel to the archipelago during Storm Amy. Yeah, that one. Another St.…
S4E3 The quilting point: capers in Cardiff
A first-class (cricketing) episode in which the team discusses Dorothy Edwards's 'Winter Sonata' and 'Rhapsody and Other Stories', together with Claire Flay's study of the author and Michael…
S4E2 When close to home is far away
The team batten down the hatches at Norman's Bay, blithely hanging on to the roof while they discuss Monica Dickens's 'Mariana', Mary Chamberlain's 'Fenwomen', Ronald Blythe's 'Akenfield', and Gilles…
S4E1 The 'no, we're not dead' roundup
Rumours of their demise having been greatly exaggerated, the team is back with a roundup of where we've been, and where we wish we hadn't been. We also have a chat about Dorothy Richardson's 'Journey…
S3E4 Time and space in Shetland
Join the team in Fetlar Hall car park at the most easterly point of their latest Shetland odyssey through Mainland, Yell, Unst, and Fetlar for a stormy chat (the weather, not the team) about 'Sea…
S3E3 The longest trip so far, part two: the longering
In which the team recount, in a state of mild euphoria*, their adventures in the Western Isles. Featuring Rosalie Fry's 'Child of the Western Isles', Slavoj Žižek's 'Christian Atheism: How to be a…
S3E2 The longest trip so far, part one
The team bring you the Story So Far as they trundle up through Dumfries and Galloway en route to the Outer Hebrides. We discuss, among other unmissable segments concerning deciding whether to book a…
S3E1 Citybreaks, van-style
The team enjoy an overnighter outside Cambridge. Join us as we reflect on fantasies high and low, Lucy M. Boston, C.L. Moore, and the geometry of the Scotch egg. We're Goblincore for life.
S2E5 Camping before Christmas
The team break their journey to Hay-on-Wye to explore Cirencester. Amidst the winter sorrowing, we discuss 'The Book of Silence' by Sara Maitland, 'Winters in the World' by Eleanor Parker, 'The…
S2E4 Camping out of season
The team fit in a cheeky late-season break in Lyme Regis. Featuring Dorothy Richardson's 'Pilgrimage', Franz Kafka's 'The Trial', the delights of the upmarket pub 'fish finger' sandwich, Lyme Regis…
S2E3 Camping in hot weather
The team sweat it out on Cornwall's Lizard and Roseland peninsulas. Also: Mary Wesley's The Camomile Lawn, James Knowlson's Damned To Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett, Natalie Hayes's Stone Blind,…
S2E2 Camping on the North Coast 500
Are we 'van-dals'? The team describe their anti-clockwise journey around the North Coast 500 and reflect on the impact the route has had on the Highlands. Also: Kate Rew's 'The Outdoor Swimmers'…
S2E1 Camping with new kit
We're back in the New Forest with an Outdoor Revolution awning, a Thule bike rack, Dorthe Nors 'A Line in The World', G.W.F. Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit', Paul Kildea's 'Benjamin Britten: A Life…
S1E7 Camping with friends
'D' spends her first-ever night under canvas as we explore Skipton and its surroundings. Yarndale 2022, a plethora of micropubs, and top-notch cooked breakfasts feature, along with Alison Light's…
S1E6 Camping on uneven ground
We're in Dorset on the 'REDACTED Coast' with A History of the World in Twelve Maps' by Jerry Brotton, 'Authority and Freedom' by Jed Perl, cider, unexpected rappelling, and sheep that baa 'way-hay',…
S1E5 Camping on an island
The canny and uncanny landscapes of Clara Vyvyan's travel writing and Helen de Guerry Simpson's weird psychogeography frame an unexpectedly Australian-themed episode. Big landscapes (walking the…
S1E4 Camping on a pub site
Of badgers, beers, and books. It's all wild! Plus: Annabel Abbs 'Windswept: Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women', and Olga Tokarczuk's 'Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead' and…
S1E3 Camping on a site with limited resources
Not so much no shoes, no shirt, no dice as no loos, no showers, woodlice. Plus: Rebecca Solnit's 'A Field Guide to Getting Lost', and the irresistible allure of arch miserablist Thomas Bernhard.
S1E2 Shakedown shindig
Virago Modern Classics, St Mars of the Desert beers, Porta Potties and pea fritters: this episode really does have it all.
S1E1 Introduction
Introducing A Voice in a Van: a podcast full of books, descriptions of and sounds from wherever we find ourselves in the great outdoors, as well as food, drink, boardgaming, and reflections on…
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