The Mini-Break, episode 12: my go-to music for healing and transformation

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Leaning into my Covid status and resting at home, I’ve been watching Bake-Off: a TV show that leaves me with slightly mixed feelings and not a small amount of trauma thanks to the job my mum did tirelessly throughout my childhood. Mirror glazes be damned.

This week’s book-club chat with subscribers has been around Joan Barfoot’s novel Gaining Ground, which has led me down even more rabbit holes thinking about memoir, truth and fiction.

I (of course) share my Mini-Break suggestion for this week - an electronic artist, still going strong in her eighties - who has impacted and transformed my life in all sorts of interesting and unexpected ways. And listener Jennifer Whitmore shares her beautifully imagined escape to a turf house ‘far north’, spinning yarn and reading books that very much meet with my approval.

Links from the episode:

Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot

Suzanne Ciani

Live Quadrophonic by Suzanne Ciani

More information about the BBC Proms here

Sisters With Transistors film

Watch the trailer for A Life in Waves, the documentary on Suzanne Ciani, here

Transcript:

Production Credits

Guest Booker and Admin Support - Meghan Hutchins

Substack Manager - Rebecca Armstrong

Producer - Alice Lloyd

Music - The Leaf Library theleaflibrary

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