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Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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Book of the Week: Sightlines

Book of the Week: Sightlines: Episode 2: Pathologies

Factual: Travel

Factual: Science & Nature: Nature & Environment

Sightlines

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Episode 2: Pathologies

Pathologies

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Sightlines, Pathologies

Jamie recalls how the loss of her mother affected her and took her on an unlikely journey.

Jamie recalls how the loss of her mother affected her and took her on an unlikely journey. Read by Maureen Beattie.

Read by: Maureen Beattie
Abridged by: Pete Nichols

"The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - what is it that we're just not seeing?"

In the second essay from her new book SIGHTLINES, Jamie recalls how the loss of her mother affected her and took her on an unlikely journey

Five years after FINDINGS broke the mould of nature writing, award-winning Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie subtly shifts our focus on landscape and the living world, daring us to look again at the natural, the remote and the human-made. 

"Kathleen Jamie, the Scottish poet, has written a book that transcends the definition of nature study ... SIGHTLINES is a work of intense purity and quiet genius and we're lucky to have it."
Philip Hoare
The Sunday Telegraph


Producer: Karen Rose
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.

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By Kathleen Jamie. A unique odyssey through the natural world. Read by Maureen Beattie

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