S3E101 Donald Smith takes us on a literary tour of Edinburgh's Old Town, touching on the stories of writers including Robert Louis Stevenson, J. K. Rowling, Naomi Mitchison, Robert Burns and many more.

To order a copy of Donald's book, Our Stories Town, click here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Edinburgh-Storied-Town-Donald-Smith/dp/180425150X

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S3E100 Miles Leeson returns to the podcast to talk about Iris Murdoch, this time concentrating on her short collection of poems, A Year of Birds.

Miles and Ash discuss connections between Murdoch's poetry and philosophy, the critical reputation of her poems and some of the folklore tradition associated with her chosen birds.

To pre-order a copy of Poems from an Attic: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/470920/poems-from-an-attic-by-murdoch-iris/9781784746124 And to listen to The Iris Murdoch podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-iris-murdoch-society-podcast/id1506230228

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S3E99 Today Ash looks at not one but three short poems composed by Robert Burns on the subject of his 'elder brother in the Muse', Robert Fergusson.

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