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General Category => Freewheeling => Topic started by: phil653 on 11 January, 2016, 03:05:35 pm

Title: That Emily Chappell
Post by: phil653 on 11 January, 2016, 03:05:35 pm: New book gets a very favourable review in the Graun:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/11/what-goes-around-london-cycle-couriers-story-emily-chappell-review
Title: Re: That Emily Chappell
Post by: Fab Foodie on 11 January, 2016, 04:23:28 pm: Quote from: phil653 on 11 January, 2016, 03:05:35 pm
New book gets a very favourable review in the Graun:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/11/what-goes-around-london-cycle-couriers-story-emily-chappell-review
She was on R4 this morning .... Woman's hour?
Title: Re: That Emily Chappell
Post by: Jurek on 11 January, 2016, 04:28:05 pm: Also discussed here (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=56393.msg1970167#msg1970167).
Title: Re: That Emily Chappell
Post by: phil653 on 11 January, 2016, 05:36:56 pm: Oops, missed that on the other board. Thought I'd done due diligence by doing a search before posting, but alas not. Is it just me or was the search function more user friendly when it was 'temporarily' replaced by Google?
Title: Re: That Emily Chappell
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 12 January, 2016, 09:28:34 am: Quote from: phil653 on 11 January, 2016, 05:36:56 pm
Oops, missed that on the other board. Thought I'd done due diligence by doing a search before posting, but alas not. Is it just me or was the search funtion more user friendly when it was 'temporarily' replaced by Google?
If you have a board, like Freewheeling, open, then it only searches in that board.
Title: Re: That Emily Chappell
Post by: Jaded on 13 December, 2016, 06:18:16 pm: She gets tagged here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-38299896)
Title: Re: That Emily Chappell
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 December, 2016, 06:25:57 pm: I didn't realise the North Coast 500 was a thing outwith cycling. She's also in the latest edition of Boneshaker but I think more people will read the BBC. :D
Title: Re: That Emily Chappell
Post by: Jaded on 03 November, 2019, 11:38:37 am: ...is in The Sunday Times today, page 12
Title: Re: That Emily Chappell
Post by: Paul on 03 November, 2019, 02:29:46 pm: And yesterday’s Guardian.
Title: Re: That Emily Chappell
Post by: Jakob W on 03 November, 2019, 06:47:08 pm: Quote from: Paul on 03 November, 2019, 02:29:46 pm
And yesterday’s Guardian.

Do you have a link? Their site search isn't bringing anything up.
Title: Re: That Emily Chappell
Post by: Phil W on 03 November, 2019, 07:36:48 pm: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/28/ultrarunning-prison-surviving-aids-the-best-tales-of-endurance

I searched for it earlier
Title: Re: That Emily Chappell
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 November, 2019, 09:53:42 am: This is presumably the one Jaded mentioned: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cycle-couriers-get-ultra-fit-on-takeaway-pizza-9k60nvv0q
Title: Re: That Emily Chappell
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 December, 2019, 01:15:16 pm: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000c2tz

45 minutes 30 seconds
Title: Re: That Emily Chappell
Post by: Jakob W on 07 December, 2019, 04:00:11 pm: Picked up a copy of her latest book this week in the Rapha shop (sorry: 'cycle club'), but haven't yet got round to it. Am working away for a night next week, so will hopefully manage to read it then.