Feel Britannia: Laline Paull
SERIES: We ask Laline Paull, The Bees author "what makes you feel emotional about Britain?"
Feel Britannia: Laline Paull
With all the rhetoric and Big Ideas surrounding the general election, Culture Whisper wanted to collect some of the little things that spark emotions about Britain.
In anticipation of May 7, we asked our favourite figures in the arts to tell us what makes Britain feel like home.
Laline Paull, author, playwright and screenwriter:
"I’m going for Canterbury Cathedral, for the awe and wonder, for Chaucer and TS Eliot and the English language, for the chisel marks of long gone masons, for the scoop of thousands of feet worn into the stone steps. For the tattered banners and lists of whole villages who lost their sons, carved into the walls. For the history and politics of England at every turn, and for the candle that burns on the site of the murder of Thomas a Beckett, that turbulent priest."
Laline Paull is an author and playwright, whose debut novel The Bees has been nominated for the Baileys Women's Fiction prize.
In anticipation of May 7, we asked our favourite figures in the arts to tell us what makes Britain feel like home.
Laline Paull, author, playwright and screenwriter:
"I’m going for Canterbury Cathedral, for the awe and wonder, for Chaucer and TS Eliot and the English language, for the chisel marks of long gone masons, for the scoop of thousands of feet worn into the stone steps. For the tattered banners and lists of whole villages who lost their sons, carved into the walls. For the history and politics of England at every turn, and for the candle that burns on the site of the murder of Thomas a Beckett, that turbulent priest."
Laline Paull is an author and playwright, whose debut novel The Bees has been nominated for the Baileys Women's Fiction prize.
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