Myrna-nora left a comment on the blog ages ago directing us to a YouTube video of Mary Stewart! It's a great interview from a TV program called Off the Page, which apparently featured a different Scottish writer every week. It's about a half hour long and so lovely! It was filmed in 1992, just after the release of The Stormy Petrel.
One tidbit that I thought was interesting -- Mary Stewart says that when she was writing the scene in The Moon-Spinners where Nicola swims in the Bay of Dolphins, she decided that her next book would feature a dolphin as a sort of hero. Of course, This Rough Magic was next (and is my absolute favorite Mary Stewart book).
I really hope that the interview was set at Mary Stewart's house in Scotland. Because I like to think of her enjoying her retirement in such a beautiful place!
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Delurking to thank you for posting about this link. I immediately had to click over and watch the interview. What a treat to listen to Stewart's voice and watch her expressions as she reminisced about her books: the bit about her friend's experience with the dancing horse, the creative connection between The Moon Spinners and This Rough Magic, her enjoyment of Dorothy Sayers, her firm stance on film adaptations... I only wish the interviewer had asked less generic questions and mined Stewart's knowledgeability and intellect more!
Thank you so much for posting the link to this wonderful interview: what a find! Lovely to hear Mary Stewart for the first time when I have read her books for so many years. Thanks!
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