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Podcast: A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley
Episode: Froggie and the Golden Ball
Description: ‘For all the Froggies of the World...'
Inspired by her amphibian lifestyle, Sally offers an everyday fable of the writer. Froggie and the Golden Ball is a cautionary tale of the writerly career and the lure of acclaim, interspersed with reflections on nature, Emily Dickinson, and hairdressing.
Dickinson’s poem about the frog is available here: https://poets.org/poem/im-nobody-who-are-you-260
The producer of this episode is James Bowen.
The extra voice in this episode is Emma Fielding.
The beautiful piano music heard in the opening section is writ...