Landmarks

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Tobias Menzies

Robert Macfarlane

Duncan Minshull

Penny Leicester

Landmarks, by Robert Macfarlane: Episode 3

Landmarks, by Robert Macfarlane

Episode 3

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Robert Macfarlane describes some vivid places and the words they conjure up.

Robert Macfarlane on vivid places and the words they conjure up: to the Lake District to meet a word collector. From 2015.

Robert Macfarlane visits some inspiring places, to meet the people and 'collect' the words that evoke the area:
 
He travels to the Lake District, to meet another collector of words. Beforehand, he reads a folk epic called the Kalevala, which makes some eerie connections with his project.
 
Abridged for radio by Penny Leicester

Readers: Tobias Menzies and the author

Producer: Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015

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