Pat Boran
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107 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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How could you be other on a day like that?
Well, it's reminded me, one of the first things I ever wrote when I was still in school was a kind of a short story about Rocket on a Mace.
And I called it the seaside of Leash because it was the place we went to be elevated and to hear in the woods all around Leash.
the wind blowing.
So you had that sense if you closed your eyes and lay out in the grass, you were at the seaside.
And today, everywhere seems to be the seaside, even the county that's most distracted, disconnected from the coast in the country.
Yeah, well, you see, Leeds doesn't have what I think of as drama.
Drama is when you're trying to get the kids to school at 9 o'clock in the morning in Stradbilly on a day like this.
That's drama.
But it has a different kind of action going on.
It's not a vertical action, if you like.
We're better at the, so to speak, the horizontal pursuits, the course fishing, the walking, the hill walking.
the canoeing, the barges, you know, I was down on the cycle path, I almost said psychopaths in Vicarstown the other day and looking at that and it's an invitation to slow down.
I think that's what Leash really is.
It's an invitation to take things in at a much slower pace and you come here for that reason.
And I was reminded there when you were talking about the name, about Bloom, Leopold Bloom, Joyce's Leopold Bloom seems to have been named after the sleeve blooms.
And there's a little moment in one of the chapters where Leopold is passing a school and he hears kids outside playing and he's thinking, fresh air helps memory, he's saying to himself.
And then he says, mine, sleeve bloom.
So there's that connection that it is a place to go to contemplate.
It's not the cliffs of...
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