SERIES 2: EPISODE 4: Jade Angeles Fitton: Escaping to Silence
Jade Angeles Fitton had been living a frenetic, toxic life in London, trapped in an abusive relationship and seemingly willingly to continue living th...
Inside A Mountain: walking real and imaginary landscape with Charlie Lee-Potter
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Artist, broadcaster and writer Charlie Lee-Potter takes contemplative walks with a musician, artist, writer or scientist. The name comes from writer Nan Shepherd’s haunting phrase that ’a mountain has an inside’ - walking isn’t to accumulate miles or conquer peaks but to immerse yourself in landscape. Every episode evokes place with a complex, mixed soundscape.
SERIES 2: EPISODE 3: How to Read A Life: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and his memoir Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces
This episode takes a walk, but a very short one. That's because my companion is Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, professor of English at Magdalen College, Ox...
SERIES 2: EPISODE 2: Night walking with anthologist Duncan Minshull
SERIES 2 Episode 2: Night Walking with Anthologist Duncan Minshull The writer Duncan Minshull has compiled five anthologies about walking, the latest ...
SERIES 2: EPISODE 1: Telling stories with the poet Ian McMillan
SERIES 2 Episode 1: Dodging Falling Trees with Ian McMillan The poet Ian McMillan, presenter of The Verb on BBC Radio 3 and poet-in-residence at Bar...
SERIES 1: EPISODE 6: Going underground: seeking London’s lost rivers with Tom Chivers, author of London Clay
EPISODE 6 Tom Chivers' book London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City is erudite and meticulously researched, but it's also funny, poetic and at times ve...
SERIES 1: EPISODE 5: Strange loops and walking as thinking, with mathematician Marcus du Sautoy
EPISODE 5 Marcus du Sautoy, Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, has the kind of imagination which draws on...
SERIES 1: EPISODE 4: Walking the Jurassic coastline with the international cellist Natalie Clein
EPISODE 4 The acclaimed cellist Natalie Clein talks about her music and explains what creativity means to her. Returning to her childhood home on the ...
SERIES 1: EPISODE 3: Tracing the footsteps of Ivor Gurney with Kate Kennedy
EPISODE 3 Kate Kennedy has written a mesmerising and deeply moving book about the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, Dweller in Shadows. Gurney's life wa...
SERIES 1: EPISODE 2: Walking the South Devon coastline with artist Anna Koska
EPISODE 2 Botanical artist and illustrator Anna Koska uses the ancient, but now rare, medium of egg tempera to create beautiful paintings of the natur...
SERIES 1: EPISODE 1: Landscapes of the Imagination: Sally Bayley
EPISODE 1 The writer Sally Bayley had a chaotic, deprived childhood in a household of 12 children and 3 adults. But since placing herself in care at t...