Tony Walker

Two further collections followed, A.J.

Allen's second book, 1933, and the posthumous best of A.J.

Allen, 1954.

And My Adventure in Norfolk appears in both the first and third of these.

It struck me that because it originated as basically a chat of a man to his audience, of a raconteur to his audience, he assumes a lot of common cultural concepts that I don't need to explain.

Say if I had just been out for a walk and if I was going to talk to somebody about something that happened, there's a lot of stuff I wouldn't need to explain because culturally we have...

We belong to the same culture, me and this man.

I've just met with his dog.

I'm conscious that both in time and space, for many of the listeners to the Classic Ghost Stories podcast, some of the things will need a little bit of unpacking for you properly to understand what he's talking about.

The first thing, which I think probably most British people know, is a broad, is a particular word used in Norfolk for a shallow lake area.

So the Norfolk Broad is an area famous for its boating.

Now, if you've ever read...

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransom.

These are sailing stories for kids.

I loved them growing up.

Loved them.

Loved them with a northern ooh growing up.

And he sets one of them.

Is it the Picton?

No, the Picton and Martyrs set them in Scotland.