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Book of the Week: Sixty Degrees North

Sandy Grierson

Malachy Tallack

Laurence Wareing

Kirsteen Cameron

Book of the Week: Sixty Degrees North: Episode 1

Sixty Degrees North

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Sixty Degrees North, Episode 1

Starting in Shetland, Malachy Tallack sets out on a journey around the sixtieth parallel.

Wrestling with notions of home and belonging, and grief for the untimely death of his father, Malachy Tallack sets out from Shetland on a journey around the sixtieth parallel.

Marking a borderland between 'near' and 'far north', the sixtieth parallel wraps itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden and Norway; it crosses the tip of Greenland and of South Central Alaska; it cuts the great spaces of Russia and Canada in half. The parallel also passes through Shetland, at the very top of the British Isles.

Writer Malachy Tallack travelled to some of the places that share this latitude, beginning in Shetland, where he has spent most of his life. Wrestling with notions of home and belonging, he hoped that the journey would help him come to terms with his father's untimely death. Focusing on the landscapes and natural environments of the parallel, and the way that people have interacted with those landscapes, Tallack explores themes of wildness and community, of isolation and engagement, of exile and memory.


Reader: Sandy Grierson
Writer: Malachy Tallack
Abridger: Laurence Wareing
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.

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Malachy Tallack's book about the sixtieth parallel explores notions of home and belonging

Malachy Tallack journeys around the sixtieth parallel, exploring themes of wildness and community, of isolation and engagement, of exile and memory

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