The first Ted Hughes Society podcast, in which we’ll be looking at Hughes’s love of the watery environments of river, pool, lake and seashore with the help of Mark Wormald, chair of the Ted Hughes Society, poet, critic, fellow at Hughes’s old college, Pembroke College, Cambridge - and a fisherman, who has recently published The Catch, subtitled ‘fishing for Ted Hughes’, a full-length appreciation of Hughes’s lifelong commitment to fishing, as expressed in his fishing diaries and many letters to his friends. Mark’s book also recounts his own early introduction to fishing, his growing absorption in its challenges, frustrations and delights, and how with the help of Ted Hughes’s magnificent collection of poems River, and guided by those fishing diaries, he went fishing in Ted Hughes’s still discernible footprints.
The Catch is published by Bloomsbury (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/catch-9781526644244/), and the extract Mark reads in this podcast is from the chapter 'Stealing Trout.' Mark's reading is introduced by Katherine Robinson, a research student at Pembroke College, Cambridge who is working on the presence of the Mabinogion and other Welsh in the work of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
The opening music is from String Quartet No 14, opus 13 by Ludwig van Beethoven, performed by the Orion String Quartet. (This extract is reproduced under Creative Commons licence IMSLP:Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 3.0.) The closing music is from Piaon Quartet in A major, D667 'The Trout' by Franz Schubert, performed by George Solchany (piano), Arpad Gerecz (violn), Vilmos Palotal (cello), Thomas Lorand (viola), Jacques Cazauran (double bass). (This recording is in the public domain.)
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