Alexandra Harris – The Rising Down

When the celebrated critic and cultural historian Alexandra Harris returned to her childhood home of West Sussex, she realised that she barely knew the place at all. As she probed beneath the surface, excavating layers of archival records and everyday objects, bringing a lifetime’s reading to bear on the place where she started, hundreds of unexpected stories and hypnotic voices emerged from the area’s past. Who has stood here; what did they see?

With Petworth and the surrounding area fully in focus in her book, join Alexandra as she shares her new in-depth love and understanding of West Sussex as it was…

In conversation with James Simpson