The Spectator Book Club’s podcast this week interviews fantasy author Alan Garner, of nearby Alderley Edge, who has…

“a new book of essays and poems called Powsels and Thrums: A Tapestry of a Creative Life. Alan tells me about landscape and writing, science and magic, the unbearably spooky story behind his novel Thursbitch – and why, three weeks short of 90, he has no plans to retire.”