Back in August, I had a very enjoyable and interesting conversation with Annette Rubery, a writer and literary scholar who is herself writing a book about Vanbrugh and his circle, provisionally entitled British Enchanters: John Vanbrugh, his friends and the theatre which changed a nation.

She has just published a record of our conversation on her Substack called The Lichfield Rambler:-

https://open.substack.com/pub/annetterubery/p/q-and-a-with-charles-saumarez-smith?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email