How We Live Now with Katherine May
Hosted by Katherine May · Katherine May
4.8from 311 ratings
- 95
- Episodes
- 27
- Transcribed
- 311
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About How We Live Now with Katherine May
Where would you go to rest and retreat, in good times and bad?Katherine May, author of Wintering and Enchantment, asks her guests to share their idea of a perfect sanctuary. Drawing on memory, inspiration and imagination, she explores the things we seek out when we need to restore our joy, hope and energy. It begins with a forest clearing. What will we find there? A log cabin or a grand hotel? What cherished object or talisman would you bring? And what single work of art, be it a book, record, film or something else, would provide you with enough sustenance to see you through the darkness and remind you of the good times? In a series of frank, thoughtful and deeply personal conversations, The Clearing will explore the cultural, social and spiritual mindset needed to survive difficult times. Katherine's Links:Visit The Clearing website https://katherine-may.co.uk/the-clearing-podcast (https://katherine-may.co.uk/the-clearing-podcast) to discover how to enjoy the episodes ad freeKatherine’s new book, Tending: How Care Binds the World is out in March and you can pre-order it here https://katherine-may.co.uk/tending (https://katherine-may.co.uk/tending)Buy Katherine’s books: Enchantment (https://katherine-may.co.uk/enchantment) | Wintering (https://katherine-may.co.uk/wintering) | The Electricity of Every Living Thing: UK (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/1124/9781409172512) / US (https://bookshop.org/books/the-electricity-of-every-living-thing-a-woman-s-walk-in-the-wild-to-find-her-way-home/9781612199603)Follow Katherine on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/katherinemay_/)Visit Katherine’s Website (https://katherine-may.co.uk/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Katherine May
- Category
- arts · education · health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Jun 2020
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
27 of 95 episodes have a transcript.
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Pierre Novellie’s Big Book of Hands
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Caitlin Moran’s ‘greatest building humans have ever come up with’
7 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Joseph Coelho’s art of pottering and rummaging
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Pierre Novellie’s Big Book of Hands
Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They can vary. No, I didn't go on holiday. I was gigging. I was trying to do stand-up. And that made it harder being freelance where you go, oh, I lose money if I go away. I'm not around. Yeah. I'm not very good at it. No. So how are you going to find imagining a sort of dream retreat from the world? Is that going to be unappealing? No, it's incredibly appealing is the strange thing. I just I can't quite. picture the parameters i can't quite make it fit as a realistic idea um that's the part that's difficult i think but i i want to i mean i actively would like to but the trouble is i all the versions of it where i imagine doing it still involve me doing things yeah yeah that's that's fine i mean i well it'll be your book's called why can't i just enjoy things which seems very pertinent to the conversation about that And it's about your experience of learning you're autistic as an adult after being basically called out by a heckler on stage, which I think is marvellous. […]
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- Pierre Novellie
- Caitlin Moran
- Joseph Coelho
- Elise Loehnen
- Anna Brones
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- 4.8 / 5
- 167 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 144 ratings
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