In a new book, British writer Peter Parker examines how A Shropshire Lad has permeated English life and culture for more than a century. He talks to Petroc about Housman’s impact on English music. 

Biographer Peter Parker discusses with Ivan his six choices of things which he thinks should be better known.

Edmund de Waal, Penelope Lively and Peter Parker discuss the attractions of combining memoir and social history, and the fascination of ‘the silent eloquence of the physical world’.