For this first episode, I spoke to writer Sarah Perry, author of three acclaimed novels — After Me Comes The Flood (2014), The Essex Serpent (2016), and Melmoth (2018).

Sarah's first work of non-fiction, Essex Girls, is set to be published in October 2020.

— Music, books and films mentioned —

• Spotify Playlist of Music Discussed
• The soundtrack for Patience (After Sebald) (2012), a film by Grant Gee
• Honeyvoiced Mythweaver (Sappho) by Stephen Crowe

• A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor - John Berger & Jean Mohr
• Sombrero Fallout - Richard Brautigan
• There Will Be No Quiet - Stanley Donwood
• Middlemarch - George Eliot / Mary Anne Evans
• Consider the Oyster - MFK Fisher
• Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now - Jason Lanier
• Holloway - Robert Macfarlane, Dan Richards & Stanley Donwood
• The Mirror & the Light - Hilary Mantel
• Autumn Journal - Louis MacNeice
• The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
• Melmoth - Sarah Perry
• Essex Girls - Sarah Perry
• Climbing Days - Dan Richards
• Outpost - Dan Richards
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli
• The Order of Time -  Carlo Rovelli
• The Gilead series - Marilynne Robinson
• The Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald
• Maus - Art Spiegelman
• Reunion - Fred Uhlman

• The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick (2011)