<p><strong><em>Find all previous and future episodes listed <a href="https://spywrite.com/mick-herron-slough-house/slough-house-podcast/" data-type="page" data-id="3642">here</a> or in your podcast app under &#8220;Barbican Station&#8221;.</em></strong></p> <p>In this episode we discuss Mick Herron&#8217;s latest in the Slough House series, <em>Clown Town</em>, with guest Sam Leith. We talk about Herron and Wind in the Willows, whether he&#8217;s diving into Richard Osman territory, and that shocking turn of events at the end of the book.</p> <p>Plus how to deal with Herron&#8217;s dry wit when interviewing him, poetry&#8217;s influence on Herron&#8217;s writing and pondering the end of the Slough House series.</p> <p>All that and more in this episode!</p> <p>Sam&#8217;s writing at The Spectator &#8211; <a href="https://spectator.com/writer/sam-leith/?edition=us">https://spectator.com/writer/sam-leith/?edition=us</a></p> <p>Sam&#8217;s Substack &#8211; <a href="https://samleith.substack.com/">https://samleith.substack.com/</a></p> <p>Sam&#8217;s book <em>The Haunted Wood</em> &#8211; <a href="https://oneworld-publications.com/work/the-haunted-wood/">https://oneworld-publications.com/work/the-haunted-wood/</a></p> <p>Sam&#8217;s podcast The Spectator&#8217;s The Book Club &#8211; <a href="https://spectator.com/podcasts/book-club/?edition=us">https://spectator.com/podcasts/book-club/?edition=us</a></p> <figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://spywrite.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/BS-Clown-Town.mp3"></audio></figure> <p>Follow the latest news about the upcoming AppleTV adaption <a href="https://spywrite.com/2020/04/01/slow-horses-appletv-timeline-and-breaking-news/">here</a>.</p> <p>For more on the slow horses, click&nbsp;<a href="https://spywrite.com/mick-herron-slough-house/">here</a>.</p> <p>Track down the real Slough House&nbsp;<a href="https://spywrite.com/2021/02/24/where-is-slough-house-located/">here</a>. </p>