“His day-dream was suddenly shattered into a thousand fragments like a lance against plate-armour. He saw the flash of a jewelled shoe-buckle as the toe of the royal shoe caught him in the ribs. He heard the royal voice raised in petulant indignation. He felt himself flying through the air and landing on the hard [Open This Episode]
The Boy Who Drew Cats
“Whenever he found himself alone he drew cats. He drew them on the margins of the Priest’s books, and on all the screens of the temple, and the walls, and the pillars. Several times the Priest told him this was not right, but the boy did not stop drawing cats, he drew them because he [Open This Episode]
The Galloping Cat, a poem by the late Stevie Smith
“So I thought: What’s the good of galloping about doing good when angels stand in the path and do not do as they should.” The Galloping Cat from All the Poems by Stevie Smith That’s a quote from The Galloping Cat. A poem by the late British writer Stevie Smith. For this episode it’s taken [Open This Episode]