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Last broadcast on Mon, 1 Mar 2010, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
From Falstaff at The Boar's Head to John Self at The Shakespeare in Martin Amis's Money, English literature and the pub are intertwined. It started in a pub - Chaucer's pilgrims setting out from The Tabard in Southwark - and has been waiting to be chucked out ever since. Robert Hanks presents an elegy for pubs in literature and an exploration of what the smoking ban, the gastro pub and the five quid pint are going to do to writing.
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Sat 27 Feb 201020:00
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Mon 1 Mar 201015:00
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