The London coffee shop where the series began
How a voice memo, recorded a little too loudly over a flat white, turned into a glass artist, a festival, and eventually a whole series.
Transcript
0:00So I was in London, in a coffee shop near the station, with about forty minutes to kill and a flat white I didn't really want. And I had this thought about a woman who makes glass. A real person, with a real van, who'd been doing the festival circuit for fifteen years and was very tired of other people's opinions about her prices.
1:12I didn't have a notebook, so I opened the voice memo app and started talking. Quietly. The man at the next table definitely heard me say "and then the sculpture won't fit in the booth," and I've chosen not to think about what he made of that.
2:40By the time my train was called, I had her, I had the festival, and I had a pretty good idea who was going to make her life complicated.
[Full transcript goes here once the recording is final.]