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Open Book: Robert Macfarlane on his new book Landmarks

Robert Macfarlane on his new book Landmarks

08/03/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Robert Macfarlane on his new book Landmarks

Robert Macfarlane on his latest book, which celebrates the language of the landscape.

Presented by Mariella Frostrup. Travel and nature writer Robert Macfarlane discusses the relationship between language and landscape, the subject of his latest book, Landmarks.

Award winning travel and nature writer Robert Macfarlane discusses his latest book, which celebrates the language of our landscape. He talks to Mariella about why this is his most argumentative book yet, about his admiration for the writer Nan Shepherd and why he hopes that words like 'conker' and 'acorn' don't fall out of use. 

The Danish writer Dorthe Nors sends Open Book a literary postcard from the west coast of Denmark, where minimalism is 'hot'; and novelist Sarah Bannan and critic Suzi Feay discuss bullying in literature - from the cruel words of Emma to Miss Bates, up to Sarah's book Breathless which explores the dreadful impact of cyber bullying on one young student. 

And voices in their heads - how novelists hear their characters.

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