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This episode features "The Glad Giver", an audio drama piece by Jill Korn about the medieval mystic, Julian of Norwich.

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Sound Escape Theatre: "The Glad Giver"

“But what’s the point of an old woman’s prayers every morning at this time? I’ve been locked in here forty years or more, and the world still suffers, and the plagues still come. And sometimes, I still feel so — lonely. And I wonder if God’s really listening at all to the likes of me.”

The Glad Giver is an audio drama about the medieval anchoress, Julian of Norwich. Julian published the first known book by a female author in English, called ‘Revelations of Divine Love’.

When she was thirty and ill to the point of death, Julian had a series of visions she called ‘shewings’. She recovered and chose to spend the rest of her life as an anchoress, confined to an enclosed cell adjoining Saint Julian's church. Over the following years, she contemplated her visions, and wrote the first known book in English by a woman, ‘Revelations of Divine Love’.

In The Glad Giver, I have imagined one day in the life of the anchoress as an older woman, who has lived most of her life in one room, devoted to her faith. Julian’s written words resonate with people across the world; I would have liked to meet her.

Credits:

Written by Jill Korn (www.jillkorn.com/sound-escape-theatre)

Produced by John Boyd

Music by Jaqueline Fitzgibbon