Lucy Worsley

1 week ago | lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley

I could actually smell the ashes of poor old Notre Dame Cathedral in the air as I walked across Paris. Six years ago, I was on my way to the Palace of Versailles for Easter, and I wanted to change from the metro to the RER at St-Michel Notre Dame. Of course the station was closed, because of the fire the week before. I found my way above ground with the enthusiastic assistance of a gentleman who I’d taken to be a Metro employee, but who actually turned out to be a lawyer.

2 weeks ago | lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley

Yes, I have a favourite murderess. No, I’m not proud of it. But our all-female detective agency, investigating the lives and crimes of women in the past for Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley, the BBC Radio Four series and BBC Sounds podcast, has now examined more than forty different female criminals. It’s only human to have a preference, right?

2 weeks ago | lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley |Annie Gray

Thank you everyone who tuned into my live video with ! We talked about the Tudor dish where a goose and a suckling pig get sewn together, why you might put sugar in wine, Queen Victoria’s appetite, Annie’s passion for Victorian food writer Mrs Acton, what food and teach us about class, her favourite weird kitchen utensil and much, much more! I’ll be watching it back myself for the recipe for chocolate and vanilla blancmange Easter eggs - Annie says an 11 year old can do it, so I’m in with at...

2 weeks ago | oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Lucy Worsley |Anne Tyler |Colin Thubron |Kazuo Ishiguro

Poet laureate Simon Armitage talks about his writing life and about a new collection of poems, Blossomise, that celebrates the transformations of spring. Blossomise is a collaboration between Armitage and illustrator Angela Harding. The 22 poems range between haikus that honour Japanese traditions of the blossom festival to stylistic pieces that take on the tones of ballads, hymns, songs, prayers and nursery rhymes.

2 weeks ago | oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Lucy Worsley |Colin Thubron |Anne Tyler |Kazuo Ishiguro

Novelist and academic Professor Janet Todd marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen by showing how Austen has inspired and challenged her personally through different phases of her life. Todd reveals what ‘living with Jane Austen’ has meant to her and what it might also mean to others. She reflects on her own life and on Austen’s letters, manuscripts and novels. Todd says Austen has an undimmable power to help us understand the world and our minds and bodies.