# The Book Club: 160 years of Beatrix Potter

An episode of [Best of the Spectator](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/793236670), 22 Jul 2026, 46 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68358fb5e1abc4be6b0308eb/e/6a60be304fac21e67f2c2f44/media.mp3?tk=eyJ0ayI6ImRlZmF1bHQiLCJhZHMiOnRydWUsInNwb25zIjp0cnVlLCJzdGF0dXMiOiJwdWJsaWMifQ==&sig=UpKBcfF9RZzPrsKEUa9XNk1QiiSoV9YXWYVqG3KCXFA

This week marks the 160th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth. In this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m joined by Penny Bradshaw, author of An A–Z of Beatrix Potter, and the historian and biographer Kathryn Hughes, whose books include Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World, George Eliot and The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton. We plunge into the Potterverse. Does Potter get her due as a literary writer? How animal are her animals? And what went wrong for Ginger and Pickles? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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