Speaks on BBC Radio 4 this week.

Let me offer you Rebecca Stott’s website.

Now I am going to republish that site because it is the only way I can think of to spread the word more widely.

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Rebecca also writes for radio. She has been a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radio Four over the years.

Her radio essay ‘Reflections on My Mother’s Kenwood Mixer’, a homage to her mother’s gritty resilience in times of trouble, promoted scores of people on Twitter and Facebook to share stories about Kenwoods and their own steely mothers. Her essay ‘On Waiting’, tells the story of being marooned with her daughters at dusk in a bus-stop in remote Norfolk during a Covid lockdown. Her essay ‘House Clearing’ tells the story of the strangeness of dismantling her mother’s house after she had moved into a carehome. And her final essay for the programme, ‘On Migration’, describes an astonishing ten days in which hundreds of wild geese flew across the skies of her home town, as well the story of the great philosopher Aristotle study of migrating birds whilst himself a migrant in flight for his life on the island of Lesbos.

You’ll find a link to Rebecca’s Private Passions episode here too. A kind of Desert Island Discs without the Desert Island…. and with the extraordinary composer Michael Berkeley in the interview seat.

Also here is her five-part series commissioned by Radio Four in 2025 called Beautiful Strangeness. You can find the link below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fv7z/episodes/player

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Being the age I am, Rebecca’s Beautiful Strangeness programmes spoke to me in a way that I find difficult to put into words but nonetheless the series did.

Perfect!