For those who urge me to alert fellow Mudcatters to new material at Salut! Live, I have posted the first and main part of an interview with Cara Dillon at

http://www.salutlive.com/2009/01/cara.html
(I hope that works - I have real trouble these days with Typepad, my site's host, and cannot even test the link from home...if it doesn't, I can rectify it in a few hours unless someone beats me to it)


Cara's answers are great, ranging from her response to occasional criticism of her version of There Were Roses (one visitor to Salut! Live has called it "fey"; as it happens, I strongly disagree) to a Anglo-Irish dispute on how Rotherham is pronounced.