Lockdown has changed how we socialise, but most people will feel the need to connect during this pandemic. Bibliotherapist Susan McLaine shares the healing power of literature to help us think about deep connection.
This episode features two readings:
'Tea with the Birds' by Joanne Harris, published in Any Girl Can Be a CandyKiss Girl!/Tea with the Birds/The G-SUS Gene (Storycuts). Copyright © Joanne Harris (http://www.joanne-harris.co.uk/). Reproduced by permission of the Estate c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN
'Kindness' from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye, copyright © 1995. Reprinted with the permission of Far Corner Books