A reader suggested recording longer pieces, allowing busy people to tune in and making it easier to share ‘slow’ quotations which might look daunting in a sweeping stretch of text. Thank you for listening!
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
And this is my epic…
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Poems for my family 001 – Yeats
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The mule and the mare
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Of pens and pencils
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War wounds
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My publisher, falsely so called…
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The happiest time of life
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A Greek showed up
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Three in one
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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 sent...
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 (soon also...
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