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Podcast: A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley
Episode: Finding Your Part
Description: ‘All the world’s a stage…’
Sally is thinking this week about a photograph of her foster grandmother in Shakespearean costume. Who is she? How did she find her part? Did she have her experience, like Jacques, the man of the world? Listen to her meditations, extemporised and recorded in a single take, to find out.
The speech from As You Like It, read at the end, is available here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56966/speech-all-the-worlds-a-stage
For those in and around Oxford, Sally will be speaking about her latest book, The Green Lady, at 3pm th...