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Landmarks, by Robert Macfarlane: Episode 4

Landmarks, by Robert Macfarlane

Episode 4

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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: Victorian Richard Jeffries in Surbiton. From 2015.

Robert Macfarlane visits some inspiring places, to meet the people and 'collect' the words that evoke the area:
 
He recalls the Victorian author Richard Jeffries, inhabitant and walker of Surbiton, which made him an early 'edgelander'.
 
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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