A Voice in a Van

A Voice in a Van

Andrew and Lewis

Episodes 20
Avg. Duration 42m
Activity Declining
Since Mar 2022
Latest Episode Oct 2025

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Monthly
Format
Episodic
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anchor.fm

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About This Podcast

Andrew, a man in a van, and Lewis, a woman in a van, talking about stuff. In a van. What sort of stuff? Mostly books, the outdoors, food, drink, board gaming, and van life. We'll be with you prently.

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Recent Episodes

S4E4 That's how we got to Orkney

Oct 14, 2025 59m

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

Sep 26, 2025 46m

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

Aug 29, 2025 37m

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

Aug 14, 2025 48m

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

Sep 05, 2024 56m

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

May 18, 2024 58m

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

Apr 30, 2024 47m

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

Mar 22, 2024 28m

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

Dec 14, 2023 44m

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

Oct 13, 2023 27m

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

Jun 25, 2023 49m

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

May 29, 2023 1h

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

Apr 20, 2023 38m

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

Sep 25, 2022 27m

'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

Jun 30, 2022 36m

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

May 19, 2022 39m

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

May 07, 2022 36m

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

Apr 28, 2022 33m

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

Mar 24, 2022 25m

Virago Modern Classics, St Mars of the Desert beers, Porta Potties and pea fritters: this episode really does have it all.

S1E1 Introduction

Mar 10, 2022 4m

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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A Voice in a Van has published 20 episodes since March 2022, covering topics in Arts, Books.

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