English: A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather Audiobook (Free)

What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, certainly, hatred) of Marmite – or is it something less very easily defined?

Beginning at the top of a muddy Gloucestershire slope at the Coopers Hill cheese-rolling contest and traversing a surroundings of lawns and queues, coastlines and sporting arenas, Ben Fogle needs us on a trip through the peculiarly English: a country of wax jackets, cricket, boat races and jellied eels, by way of country wide about British: A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather conditions treasures like the delivery forecast, fish and chips and the Wellington boot. Not forgetting the Dunkirk soul of relentless optimism when confronted with adversity, whether it is the heroic failing of Captain Scott’s doomed Antarctic expedition, or simply the perennial hope for better weather.

The archetypal Englishman – lover of labradors and Property Rovers yet holder of two passports – Ben applauds all things quintessentially British while also paying tribute to the history, culture and ideas adopted with such gusto they have become area of the fabric of the country. Written with Ben’s brand comfort and wit, that is a light-hearted yet touching tribute to all things English.