Kate Weinberg

Christmas I: Katy Balls, Craig Brown, Kate Weinberg, Craig Raine, Lisa Haseldine and Melissa Kite

37 min listen

On this weekโ€™s Christmas Out Loud โ€“ part one: Katy Balls runs through the Westminster wishlists for 2025 (1:26); Craig Brown reads his satiristโ€™s notebook (7:06); Kate Weinberg explains the healing power of a fatherโ€™s bedtime reading (13:47); Craig Raine reviews a new four volume edition of the prose of T.S. Eliot (19:10); Lisa Haseldine provides

How my fatherโ€™s bedtime stories shaped my life

Itโ€™s half an hour before lights out when my dad arrives at my bedroom door holding Roald Dahlโ€™s Danny the Champion of the World. He kicks off his shoes, loosens his tie and wedges himself next to me in my small single bed, his toes waggling in their socks as they regain freedom after a