Reading Between The Lines – the story podcast from The People’s Friend

“A Mysterious Elopement”

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Episode notes

This episode, Iain is joined by Lisa from the “Friend” Features team, Poetry Ed Abbie, and archivist Barry to discuss “A Mysterious Elopement”, first published anonymously in the magazine in September 1913. This story has a Frasier-like farcical element to it, and one of the most impressively laid-back protagonists ever committed to paper…

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