Return to Return to Brisingamen

[steepholm]

Possibly I was too self-effacing to mention this here the first time it was broadcast, but those days are gone...

Radio 4 recently repeated John Waite's programme on Alan Garner, The Return to Brisingamen. It's available on iPlayer for a few more days, and features a snippet from me at around 6:45. It's only one sentence, but it continues for 60 seconds. Perhaps I was afraid someone would hit me if I reached a full stop.

Comments

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Yes, I heard it! Sadly my attention wandered just before the crucial moment and I didn't take in your sentence, though I did hear it the previous time.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

Absolute agreement with both you and the presenter that the tight and deep sense of place is what makes Garner's books so enchanting. It's true also of some of my other favorite authors in their particular places.

[ewein2412]

thank you SO MUCH for flagging this, or I would have missed it entirely. I can't remember how I found you on livejournal originally but it may have had something to do with Four British Fantasists, which I came to thru Alan Garner. His novels are the touchstones of my literary life. We lived under the shadow of Alderley Edge for two years when I was very young, my father read the books out loud to us before we could read, and my brother and I spent a lot of sunny afternoons banging on rock walls and shouting for Cadellin. My first novel is set there, too. I have become so entrenched in Scotland, over the past ten years, that occasionally I forget that Cheshire formed my initial bond with Britain.