This week Sally is experimenting with location and atmosphere for her character Pond Man. She asks her friend Dylan, to come and join her, as they improvise their way into Pond Man's world. This episode celebrates the value of creative collaboration and experiment.

Music by D. Gwalia.

Produced by D. Gwalia.

“She glanced up at the great broken tower-columns of the vanished nave of the Abbey Church….”

This week, Sally continues to read John Cowper Powys’ 1932 novel A Glastonbury Romance, dwelling on the character of Mary Crow, whose form gives shape to the flat Glastonbury plain. Join her for reflections on visual art, our search for meaning through symbolic structure, and our deeply human need for form and rhythm.

More information on Powys can be found here: https://www.powys-society.org/JCPowys.html

The guitar piece (05:28) is by D. Gwalia.

This episode was produced by Lucie Richter-Mahr.

Special thanks to Andrew Smith, Violet Henderson, Kris Dyer, and Maeve Magnus.

“On this particular day the weather conditions had assumed a cloud-pattern…”

This week, Sally continues to read John Cowper Powys’ 1932 novel, A Glastonbury Romance, asking: how does writing produce depth and dimension? And what role do images play in our creative and emotional lives? Join her on a spring morning by the river for reflections on craft, inspiration, and literature as a visual language.

Note: in Greek mythology, Clytemnestra traps and murders her husband, king Agamemnon, by tangling him in a net. More information on Powys can be found here: https://www.powys-society.org/JCPowys.html

The original piano piece (08:47) is ‘Monday’ by Paul Sebastian. The original guitar piece (14:53) is by D. Gwalia.

This episode was produced by Lucie Richter-Mahr.

Special thanks to Andrew Smith, Violet Henderson, Kris Dyer, and Maeve Magnus.