Barbican Station – Clown Town by Mick Herron – Explored

Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. In this episode we discuss Mick Herron’s latest in the Slough House series, Clown Town, with guest Sam Leith. We talk about Herron and Wind in the Willows, whether he’s diving into Richard Osman territory, and that shocking turn of events at the end of the book. Plus how to deal with Herron’s dry wit when interviewing him, poetry’s influence on Herron’s writing and pondering the end of the Slough House series. All that and more in this episode! Sam’s writing at The Spectator – https://spectator.com/writer/sam-leith/?edition=us Sam’s Substack – https://samleith.substack.com/ Sam’s book The Haunted Wood – https://oneworld-publications.com/work/the-haunted-wood/ Sam’s podcast The Spectator’s The Book Club – https://spectator.com/podcasts/book-club/?edition=us Follow the latest news about the upcoming AppleTV adaption here. For more on the slow horses, click here. Track down the real Slough…