Stephen Herrick

And it taught me that you could write about your own life.

and become an author.

So it was a huge influence.

So I really wanted to go there just to see, you know, to pay homage to George Johnston, to be honest, for somebody who had been a great influence on myself as a youngster.

But everyone is, you know, overwhelmed by the romance of taking off and living on a Greek island for 10 years.

So I wanted to see what that was like.

to see what Hydro was like.

I mean, obviously it's very different in 2019 than what it was in 2000, sorry, 1960.

But it is a beautiful island, as Polly Sansom points out in the book, with some beautiful writing.

An awful lot.

There's the characters themselves books, which I've mentioned, Charmian's two books there on the Greek islands.

There's been numerous biographies.

There's been a recent film released about Marianne and Lennon Cohen.

And there's been a recent book called Half the Perfect World, Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra.

1955 to 1964, which explores this very same territory.

They're kind of like our F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda, aren't they, really?

Or they're becoming like that.

Yeah, it was.

Look, I think she did a wonderful job of setting the scene for

and letting us sit with Erica as she talked to Charmian and Leonard Cohen and Axel, sorry, Marianne and Marianne's husband, Axel Jensen.