“Who alive, for instance, knows all the moles of Sussex? I confess I got my first sight of one a few days ago, and, though I had seen dead moles hanging from trees and had read descriptions of moles, the living creature was as unexpected as if one had come on it silent upon a peak in Darien.” – Robert Lynd, The Pleasures Of Ignorance
- Song of the Grunty Man
- Days o’ Bootpolish
- A Further Note on Pigs
- Quotation from The Pleasures Of Ignorance by Robert Lynd
- Quotation from Reading Made Easy For Foreigners by John L. Huelshof
- Quotation from Nineteen Impressions by J. D. Beresford
This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 9th August 2006. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Photo by zenera.