{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/683590e6998551779f24f8f3/6a60bd1422500f7120a50ccc?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Celebrating 160 years of Beatrix Potter","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/683590e6998551779f24f8f3/1784723196782-9f8de2f0-833a-4d1d-8ccd-c7110e936004.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"}