# Sweeping and Editing

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-reading-life-a-writing-life-with-sally-bayley-5890400/sweeping-and-editing
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-reading-life-a-writing-life-with-sally-bayley-5890400/sweeping-and-editing.md
Podcast: [A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-reading-life-a-writing-life-with-sally-bayley-5890400)
Published: 2026-01-24T15:47:59+00:00
Episode link: https://readinglifewritinglife.podbean.com/e/sweeping-and-editing/
Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/qifi6b23kzaqgb2a/JB_Draft_192fr5.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-reading-life-a-writing-life-with-sally-bayley-5890400/episodes/sweeping-and-editing
Duration seconds: 1312

## Resource

‘A paragraph made up of waiting…’ We join Sally this week in the process of editing her forthcoming work, Mrs Parnell, focusing in particular on a single paragraph. Listen for a meditation on the creation of space and time in writing, and how a text can carve out a space to pause. The wonderful piano music in the opening section is ‘Doubt’, by Paul Seba. More on Paul and his work can be found here. This episode was edited and produced by James Bowen. Special thanks to Andrew Smith, Violet Henderson, Kris Dyer, and Maeve Magnus.

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-reading-life-a-writing-life-with-sally-bayley-5890400/episodes/sweeping-and-editing/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-reading-life-a-writing-life-with-sally-bayley-5890400/sweeping-and-editing.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.