Watch poets and storytellers at the Much Wenlock Get A Word in Edgeways Festival (video courtesy of Gawie))

Transcript

00:00He was so damaged by the things that he'd done and the things that he'd seen, that he'd

00:10come back to England and been discharged from the army to have a desk duty in Orford Castle.

00:15And he hurled it onto the train, and hundreds of seagulls floated onto this plane.

00:29And this packed commuter train as the doors closed.

00:33Music.

00:48Cats, you'd better get, you'd better get back down to that.

00:52Cats, meditating on a railway track.

00:57Cats, you'd better get, you'd better get back down.

01:01There was a woman, a girl really, called Rivka.

01:07And Rivka worked with her family.

01:09Her mother was a seamstress, her father was a tailor.

01:12They took in the most beautiful clothing.

01:16And her job was embroidery, and she was very good at it.