Podcast Episodes

On Living in Hundred Acre Wood

Episode 91

For “Husband Ron” and Christopher Robin — may he come by again soon.

This week, we join Sally at home, seeing in the New Year in the company of the r…

1 week ago

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River Ruminations

Episode 90

‘Writing for me is always an embodied experience of flow…’

This week we join Sally at home, as she prepares to start her day, thinking in particular …

1 month, 1 week ago

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The Choreography of Writing

Episode 89

‘A kind of choreography of intimacy, which I return to again and again…’

This week, we join Sally on a cold winter’s morning, as she tries to settle …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Arrivals

Episode 88

‘She brought so little personality with her that she seemed scarcely to disturb the air…’

This week, marking the arrival of Autumn, Sally has been th…

3 months ago

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A Conversation on Difficulty and Ambiguity

Episode 87

‘From Waterloo Station to the small country town of Ramsgard in Dorset is a journey of not more than three or four hours, but having by good luck fou…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Mrs Parsons

Episode 86

‘The fate of the writer is to dwell in that realm of shadows and apparitions and half-seen thoughts…’

This week, we join Sally sketching a scene for …

3 months, 4 weeks ago

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A Conversation on Objects and Symbols

Episode 85

‘He stood still in the gloom of the hall, trying to catch the air that the voice was singing and gazing up at his wife. There was grace and mystery i…

4 months, 1 week ago

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The Other Side of the Fire

Episode 84

For Gabriella Kelly Davies.

‘On the last day of summer Mrs Bohannon fell in love. The poplars, fallaciously pathetic, looked horrified, their branche…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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The 27th Kingdom

Episode 83

‘Mrs Mason looked now through Aunt Irene’s rich windows, sparking like spring water and framing fat pink shrubs that grew with child-like health in t…

6 months ago

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The Green Lady

Episode 82

For Miss Braithwaite, who gave me eloquence.

‘I need to summon the spirits of place…’

This week, we join Sally in rehearsal for a performance, give…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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