A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley Podcast
1) On Living in Hundred Acre Wood
For âHusband Ronâ and Christopher Robin â may he come by again soon. This week, we join Sally at home, seeing in the New Year in the company of the residents of A.A. Milneâs Hundred Acre Wood. Listen ...Show More
2) River Ruminations
âWriting for me is always an embodied experience of flowâŠâ This week we join Sally at home, as she prepares to start her day, thinking in particular about her morning swim. Listen for a meditation on ...Show More
3) The Choreography of Writing
âA kind of choreography of intimacy, which I return to again and againâŠâ This week, we join Sally on a cold winterâs morning, as she tries to settle into the rhythm of the day and develop an image fro...Show More
4) Arrivals
âShe brought so little personality with her that she seemed scarcely to disturb the airâŠâ This week, marking the arrival of Autumn, Sally has been thinking about literary arrivals, in particular those...Show More
5) A Conversation on Difficulty and Ambiguity
âFrom 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 found a compartment to himself, Wolf Solent was able t...Show More
6) Mrs Parsons
âThe fate of the writer is to dwell in that realm of shadows and apparitions and half-seen thoughtsâŠâ This week, we join Sally sketching a scene for her new novel, Mrs Parnell, in which the stern hous...Show More
7) A Conversation on Objects and Symbols
âHe 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 in her attitude as if she were a symbol of something...Show More
8) The Other Side of the Fire
For Gabriella Kelly Davies. âOn the last day of summer Mrs Bohannon fell in love. The poplars, fallaciously pathetic, looked horrified, their branches rising on the wind like startled hair, and a pilg...Show More
9) The 27th Kingdom
âMrs Mason looked now through Aunt Ireneâs rich windows, sparking like spring water and framing fat pink shrubs that grew with child-like health in the tiny London garden.â This week, we join Sally na...Show More
10) The Green Lady
For Miss Braithwaite, who gave me eloquence. âI need to summon the spirits of placeâŠâ This week, we join Sally in rehearsal for a performance, given last week at Somerville College as part of Oxfordsh...Show More