10 episodes
This is the Reason For Time Podcast Burns & Dixson
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Novelist, lifelong writer.
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This Is The Reason For Time, Episode 1
A podcast about memory, truth, invention and how they came together in a novel, The Reason for Time.
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This Is The Reason For Time, Episode 2 MP3
Author Mary Burns describes how she created the voice of the main character, Maeve Curragh. Actress Ethel Whitty reads the scene where Maeve meets Desmond.
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This Is The Reason For Time, Episode 3
Author talks about the development of theme, Ethel Whitty reads passages about magic.
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This Is The Reason For Time, Episode 4
Author talks about conditions for working girls in 1919, Ethel Whitty reads the scene wherein Maeve meets a pair of socially conscious women who want to help her.
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This Is The Reason For Time, Episode 5
Author talks about literary influences, including John Dos Passos, and editorial changes. What's in a name? Ethel Whitty reads scenes with her office mates, and reveals how Maeve was able to buy a bathing suit for her date with Desmond.
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This Is The Reason For Time, Episode 6
Characterization details, from visits to Ennis, County Clare and Theodore Dreiser. Ethel Whitty reads the scene wherein, after "magically" obtaining a bathing costume, she stops in a church and remembers her parents.
Customer Reviews
Inside the writer's mind.
Mary Burns has a great voice and reveals a careful discussion of her novelist's decisions, featuring excerpts from the first person historical novel, "The Reason for Time." A treat for readers, very informative for writers.