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

Sarah records this episode in the aftermath of an accidental encounter with cactus acid and two visits hospital having her eyes rinsed out with saline — which turns out to be the perfect portal into a meditation on salt, flavour, and what we’re worth.

Moving through Cap o’ Rushes, Donkey Skin, a North American corn myth, and the story of the giant turnip, this episode asks: what are we hiding under the donkey skin, and can we begin to dance in our own radiance again? Sarah weaves personal reckoning — the places where we make ourselves small, the six-year-old still reaching for something she never got — with fairy tale as inner map.

A Summer Solstice episode in the truest sense: everything revealed, shadows and all. Closes with a live guitar fragment of the Detectorists theme tune.

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