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Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith

In his memoir Heavy Light, Horatio Clare traces going from recording long walks for Radio 3 to being in a lockdown ward in a psychiatric hospital and coming out again.

Paranoia, the collateral damage on his family and the investigations he makes into drugs used to treat such a breakdown: Horatio Clare talks to Laurence Scott about his Journey through Madness, Mania and Healing. Plus the poetry of Stevie Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971). Author of the much-quoted lines Not Waving but Drowning; Stevie Smith suffered from depression and acute shyness. New Generation Thinker Noreen Masud looks at her writing.

Horatio Clare has recorded a series of different walks for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3. His books include The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal; A Single Swallow; Down the Sea in Ships and his new memoir Heavy Light.
Dr Noreen Masud teaches on 20th-century fiction at Durham University. You can hear her talking about nonsense writing in this episode of Free Thinking about Dada /programmes/m000k9ws and in this Sunday Feature she looks at aphorisms /programmes/m000rtxb

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

(photo: James Bedford)

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Wed 3 Mar 2021 22:00

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