Sep 27, 2026 · 54 min · 14 segments
Family is at the heart of the work of the writer Louisa Young. Her first book was about her grandmother, Kathleen, a sculptor who was also the widow of the Antarctic explorer Captain Scott. She’s…
Louisa YoungGuest
Michael BerkeleyHost
This is a formative piece for me as a human being and as a writer, because my father loved it very much.
And it was one of the records that we had back in the day when people didn't have that many records.
And then I would just thunder around the sitting room, hiding behind things and leaping out, and it was all about bears and forests and mountains, and it would be me, you know, running away from having a bath in my vest and pants, just scampering and imagining.
And the one thing I realised that it taught me was almost everything I know about plotting and about waiting and sneaking and then whack the reader on the head.
MUSIC ¶¶ You've got 20 minutes of that and all that tension building and then the restraint and then a little more fluttering and then something comes in from the side.
Part of the first movement from the symphony in D minor by César Franck, performed by the Orchestre Paris, conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
This is a formative piece for me as a human being and as a writer, because my father loved it very much.
And it was one of the records that we had back in the day when people didn't have that many records.
And then I would just thunder around the sitting room, hiding behind things and leaping out, and it was all about bears and forests and mountains, and it would be me, you know, running away from having a bath in my vest and pants, just scampering and imagining.
And the one thing I realised that it taught me was almost everything I know about plotting and about waiting and sneaking and then whack the reader on the head.
MUSIC ¶¶ You've got 20 minutes of that and all that tension building and then the restraint and then a little more fluttering and then something comes in from the side.
Part of the first movement from the symphony in D minor by César Franck, performed by the Orchestre Paris, conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
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