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Deborah Lofas
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  • Aunties
    It's a Wendy week - woo! - and we're having a discussion about aunties at the Chalet School. Transcript available at https://topholepodcast.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/s2e23-aunties/This is the last episode of season 2 - we'll be back towards the end of September. In the meantime, please do get in touch to let us know what the Chalet School means to you. You can find Tophole on Facebook or email us at [email protected]. If you're happy for your voice to be included in our 100 Years of the Chalet School celebration episode in the autumn, please send a voice note.Have a lovely summer! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • If only I knew what to do with you girls!
    It's the summer term, which means reviewing a summer term book, and it can only be The School at the Chalet in this, its centenary year. 'Dreary' and 'drivel', or a modern classic? Transcript available at https://topholepodcast.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/s2e22-if-only-i-knew-what-to-do-with-you-girls/You can find Tophole on Facebook or contact us at [email protected]. Please do contact us, because I'd like to make a special episode next term about what the Chalet School means to modern readers (that's you!). If you're happy to have your voice included in the podcast, please send a voicenote, but written words are fine. Thank you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • A holiday in the Austrian Tirol
    Kit and I went on holiday to the Austrian Tirol in May 2025. I didn't manage an audio diary, but here's my account - with a Chalet School slant on everything we saw, of course!If you listen to the very end, you'll hear the full recording I made from our hotel balcony: the church bells of Zell am Ziller again, and then some birdsong, and then the railway crossing bell, and eventually a train. Transcript and also photos at https://topholepodcast.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/s2e21-a-holiday-in-the-austrian-tirol/You can find Tophole on Facebook, or email us at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • The school run (2)
    Hayley's back! And this time we're talking about travelling within the UK to the Chalet School in Armishire and South Wales.Transcript available at https://topholepodcast.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/s2e20-the-school-run-2/You can find Tophole on Facebook, or you can email us at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • The school run (1)
    Special guest Hayley joins me on this episode, as we discuss the trains the Chalet girls took to get to and from school on the continent.Transcript available at https://topholepodcast.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/s2e19-the-school-run-1/You can find Tophole on Facebook or email us at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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About Tophole!

Episodes look at individual Chalet School books, Elinor M Brent-Dyer's life and other works, and wider themes, with occasional interviews. There will be spoilers, because the books have been in print for over 50 years. There will be mispronunciations, because it's too late now to put right the ones I invented as a 9 year old. And we do not ignore the bonkersness that makes EBD so beloved. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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