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A Lexicon for Life

A new podcast series – available on Byline Times’ Substack Byline Supplement – brings together author Jay Griffiths, actor Joanna Scanlan, and our columnist John Mitchinson, to explore eight ‘good words’ that define our humanity

Over 30 years and through nine powerful books, the writer Jay Griffiths has staked out her territory in the place where nature, cultural history, and environmental activism overlap.

Writers as different as John Berger, Philip Pullman, and Brian Eno have identified Griffiths as an essential guide and visionary. At the heart of her work are what she calls the “good words” – the ones that define our humanity.

In A Lexicon for Life, a new eight-part podcast series, Griffiths explores eight of these words in depth alongside actor Joanna Scanlan and writer John Mitchinson.

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