Audio Exclusive—Sir Richard Eyre’s Personal Place of a Lifetime

Sir Richard Eyre—the former director of Britain’s Royal National Theatre and host of Changing Stages, a PBS series on the history of the 20th-century stage—writes on his personal place of a lifetime, Eggardon Hill in Dorset, in Traveler magazine’s November/December issue.

“Any day of the year in any weather this hill can seem vast and mysterious and awesome, but in summer, sunlight hangs over it like a benediction,” writes Eyre. “Skylarks float on thermals, almost motionless, singing with an absurdly happy trill; buzzards hover overhead above dozily indifferent cows; the sweet scent of fresh cowpats mingles with the musk of cow parsley.”

Here, we invite you to listen to Eyre’s tale.