{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68358fb5e1abc4be6b0308eb/6a60be304fac21e67f2c2f44?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Book Club: 160 years of Beatrix Potter","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/68358fb5e1abc4be6b0308eb/1784724791684-550b1f1c-9b3d-48ad-89f3-bf508a97e94a.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>This week marks the 160th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth. In this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m joined by Penny Bradshaw, author of <em>An A–Z of Beatrix Potter</em>, and the historian and biographer Kathryn Hughes, whose books include <em>Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World</em>, <em>George Eliot</em> and <em>The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton</em>.</p><p>We plunge into the Potterverse. Does Potter get her due as a literary writer? How animal are her animals? And what went wrong for Ginger and Pickles?</p>","author_name":"The Spectator"}