EPISODE 9: MADDY TONGUE AND MICHAEL LONGLEY: ON HELEN LEWIS

THE IRISH PAGES PODCAST NUMBER NINE

Maddy Tongue and Michael Longley talk to Irish Pages Editor Chris Agee about Tongue’s recent book, Helen Lewis: Shadows Behind the Dance, a heartfelt portrait of the Czech dancer and teacher, which also features poems by Michael Longley, who knew Lewis. Tongue and Longley discuss their memories of Lewis and her extraordinary life, from her devastating experiences under a Nazi persecution to her subsequent career in Belfast as a choreographer and teacher, and her own brilliant memoir, A Time to Speak.