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Podcast: A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley
Episode: A Retreat
Description: Sally reads Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem Frost at Midnight, and reflects on the importance of finding ways to escape, now and again, from a stressful world - to find a place of tranquillity, where we can think and create, connect with ourselves and with the natural world. It's a fundamental need, but very hard to achieve.
So Sally outlines a plan - to create a "retreat", a way to provide our listeners with a temporary but meaningful respite from the world.
As Sally explains, we are thinking of creating a longer form of A Re...