Episode 5: Wern Ddu and the aesthetics of neglect
A discussion of what we find appealing about landscapes, the allure of decay, and the sense of being at the end of something. I draw parallels with T...
Wandering Man
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How can we catch the essence of a place? Psychogeographers would say by walking around, soaking up the fragments of stories and facts, the moods and meditations they occasion. In this podcast poet Martin Locock explores parts of Wales, weaving together archaeology, history and the experience of urban spaces. He also ponders on the validity of psychogeography as a method,
Coal, drovers and common land
A quarantine exercise walk around the common of Gwaun Cae Gurwen and a discussion of medieval transhumance, drovers, miners, strikes, Churchill and wh...
Carmarthen Tawelan
A countryside ramble with talk about medieval leprosy, holloways, hedgerow dating, archaeology on construction sites, what Detectorists gets wrong abo...
Episode 2: West Carmarthen
A semi-rural walk along a new link road, and a discussion of Guy Debord's definition of Psychogeography, and how it has been adapted by Ian Sinclair a...
Swansea Docks
A brief walk around Swansea Docks leads to a discussion of how we filter our environment, what happens to post-industrial places, and the meaning of C...