The Sound of Silence

INTERVIEWEES

Boothams Quaker School
Boothams School is an independent, co-educational school near York for students aged 3 – 18. It’s founded on Quaker principles but welcomes students of all faiths and backgrounds. School assemblies are run as Quaker meetings for worship i.e. they are held in silence but anyone is free to speak if they feel moved to do so.

Sara Maitland
Sara grew up in London and South-West Scotland as the second of
six children. She studied English at Oxford University and went on to become a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She was a vicar’s wife for over twenty years and has two grown-up children but for the last ten years she has been living on her own and pursuing “a deep and joyful fascination with silence.”

Trish Adudu
Broadcaster Trish Adudu started her career as a Sports Producer on Grandstand and Match of the Day before becoming a presenter. She currently presents the Saturday breakfast show on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire. In 2009, she went on a weekend retreat at Worth Abbey in Sussex followed by a 8 day silent retreat at St Beuno’s Ignatian Spirituality Centre in North Wales as part of a BBC2 documentary series, The Big Silence (broadcast in 2010 and produced by Tiger Aspect). She talks to Aled about how participating in the series changed her life and her faith.