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Podcast: A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley
Episode: The Devil Lives Among Us
Description: In this episode, released on the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, Sally reads the works of great Ukrainian writers and poets of previous generations. Her thoughts turn to the novelist Joseph Conrad, who was born in a region which is now part of Ukraine. She reads passages from his masterpiece, Lord Jim, about the tangible presence of evil in the world. In a lighter vein, she reads an extract from her own fictional essay about the joys and freedoms of walking.
Further Reading
Sally’s fictional essay - on the theme of a childhood wa...