• Tracy Chevalier is an author and admirer of ringing, an American expat living in London.
• Tracy writes historical fiction: we briefly touch on writing and researching Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Last Runaway, and Remarkable Creatures (and glance briefly at The Virgin Blue and The Lady and The Unicorn) before delving into the meat of the episode: her novel A Single Thread. (Find Tracy's books at her site or wherever you get books.)
• Tracy commends both Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village and The Nine Tailors to your attention; I still say read Tracy first!

Thank you, friends. (Especially those of you who recommended Tracy to me during a dinner in Northampton--you've enriched my life unimaginably!)

• Carbaretta Bartland is a ringer and author from, well... I'll let her tell you.
• Her books, A Short Touch of Bristol and Her First Long Length explore many aspects of ringing--band management, instruction, challenging methods, flowering relationships--and are best enjoyed with a glass of wine. And, perhaps, a fan going.
• We talk about how Carbaretta started ringing, her writing, and her future plans. Project Pickled Egg comes up; we've previously discussed PPE in episodes 23 and 25 with Simon Linford, and it's come up in a few other episodes.

Thank you, friends.

• Ben White-Horne is a ringer and programmer from Cambridge (that one, not this one).
• Notably, Ben is one of the authors of Wheatley, whom you may have seen sitting quietly in the corner of one of your Ringing Room towers. We talk about the construction and operation of Wheatley, about Ben's other ringing software projects, about composition and conducting... the conversation ranges!

Thank you, friends.