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Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry

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Something Understood: A Walk in the Woods

A Walk in the Woods

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Rikke Houd takes a walk in the forest  - a place to get lost and a place to find oneself.

Danish radio producer Rikke Houd takes a walk in the forest - a place to get lost in, and a place to find oneself too.


Our relationship to the forest is ancient and complex. Woodland offers protection but also harbours some of our deepest fears. 
 
Danish radio producer Rikke Houd takes a walk in the forest, in the company of writers including Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Neruda, Dinah Hawken and the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, and discovers a place where we can both lose and find ourselves. 
 
With music by Jussi Björling, the Polish composer and dendrophiliac Krzysztof Penderecki and the Swedish musician Victoria Bergsman, who performs as Taken By Trees.
 
Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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