"Poets, novelists and playwrights have always inspired the artist and provided work for the illustrator. How better to enjoy a good read than by listening to a skilled narration or atmospheric dramatisation? For me, the radio has always been there. Early memories evoke the joy of a new box of crayons accompanied by Listen with Mother. Since then, decades of plays and poetry raised imagined pictures from sounds and voices. The familiar provides reassuring company: the urban shadows of Dickens, or Hardy’s pastoral sunlight. The unexpected provides inspiration: new writers, new experiences and contemporary stories, from pen to paintbrush.
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