Waking in the Flower: Madness, Medicine & Marmalade

Opening music: Ritual Door No.1 by Queen Space Baroque

A wandering, intimate episode threaded through with grief, wonder, and the week’s many mythic currents. Sarah reflects on the first in-person Women Who Run With The Wolves circle — a gathering she describes as “nectar” — and a deep resonance with the story of Bluebeard: the girl who ignores her instincts to fit in, and a childhood memory of Jimmy Savile’s Jim’ll Fix It that illuminates how a whole culture can be complicit in the humiliation of the vulnerable.

A visit to Glastonbury Abbey brings sadness — the beloved herb garden is to be removed — and a rattle of the cage around what gets quietly erased and why.

Sarah reads aloud from Hafiz (Coleman Barks’ translation) — luminous fragments gathered on the back of a choir song sheet — before the episode closes with a tender guided visualisation: waking, slowly, inside a blooming flower, after a thousand winters of sleep.

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