On living forever
Listening time: 2 minutes. This long and winding quotation enchanted me to the extent that I wrote it out...
Cocktails in Kiev
Listening time: 2 minutes. On their travels to the Soviet Union in 1946, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa...
Podcast review – Barry Lopez’ Arctic Dreams
Listening time: 15 minutes. It’s about a quarter of a century since I first read this moving and...
A Greek showed up
Listening time: under 5 minutes. From Steinbeck's masterful and lively account of travelling in the Soviet Union with...
Three in one
Listening time: under 4 minutes. One of the finest pieces of prose I have read in a long...
On hearing Beethoven for the first time
Listening time: 4 minutes. A favourite quotation from a favourite novel, Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely...
Survival savvy
Listening time: under 4 minutes.
Inspired by the true story of a dog trained by the Soviets to...
Podcast review – Adam Nicolson’s Sea Room
Listening time: 19 minutes. Having inherited, at the age of 21, the Shiants, three small islands east of...
Podcast review – Molly Peacock’s Paper Garden
Listening time: 12 minutes. This is a biography of an artist written by a poet. It's also a...
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