Audio Links

William Cobbett: Champion of rural workers

Bridget Kendall leads a discussion on Cobbett on The Forum, BBC World Service, with Ruth Livesey, Professor of English Literature at Royal Holloway; Dr Richard Thomas, chairman of the William Cobbett society; Katharine Stearn, editor of “Cobbett’s New Register”; and Dr Mihika Chatterjee, lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath.

Growing Solo

Retired political journalist, Max Cotton spent 2022 - 2023 consuming only food and drink grown on his smallholding in South West England (salt and tap water being his only concessions). The BBC have made a series for Radio 4, Growing Solo, tracking his experiences.

Mark Steel’s review of reporters’ journeys round Britain

BBC Radio 4 celebrated the 250th anniversary of Cobbett's birth with a discussion by Mark Steel of Cobbett's contribution to the journalistic tradition of reporting while travelling around Britain.