A kind reader suggested recording some longer pieces, such as book reviews, allowing busy people who can still snatch free moments on trams or buses, to tune in. It also makes it easier to share ‘slow’ quotations which might look daunting if presented in a sweeping stretch of text. Enjoy, and thank you for listening!
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 enlightening book. Having recently re-read it, I...
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 meditation on creativity in life and art. Mary Granville...
A Greek showed up
Listening time: under 5 minutes. From Steinbeck's masterful and lively account of travelling in the Soviet Union with Robert Capa. Chmarsky is...
Cocktails in Kiev
Listening time: 2 minutes. On their travels to the Soviet Union in 1946, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa were surprised to encounter...
Survival savvy
Listening time: under 4 minutes.Inspired by the true story of a dog trained by the Soviets to go into space, Vasily Grossman imagines...
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 the Outer Hebrides, Nicolson...
Three in one
Listening time: under 4 minutes. One of the finest pieces of prose I have read in a long time is by the photographer Robert Capa,...
On living forever
Listening time: 2 minutes. This long and winding quotation enchanted me to the extent that I wrote it out by hand some 20-30 times and...
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 Hunter, reviewed here...
Thank you for the podcasts! I only wish they were longer as they are great companions.
Liisa Välikangas
Thank you for these wonderful podcasts Béatrice. Apart from the joy in the writing with its images and sentiments, it’s lively to hear your voice, which is an excellent story-telling voice that is lovely to listen to. You are a natural seanchaí (Irish for story-teller).
As Eva rightly says, time is an issue for me, and to be honest, at the end of a day, concentration span is too. These podcasts enable me to enjoy writing redux as I gaze out the window of the train and watch the landscape go by.
I look forward to the next podcasts.
Wishing you a lovely September.
Tanya Strevens
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