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Open Country: Learning from the Wild in Dartington

Learning from the Wild in Dartington

06/04/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, Learning from the Wild in Dartington

Helen Mark visits the Dartington Estate, Devon, where learning from nature changes lives.

Helen Mark visits the Dartington Estate in Devon, where learning from the wild is inspiring people and changing lives.

Helen Mark travels to south-east Devon, to the Dartington Estate. 

This 14th century estate was reinvented by an off-shoot of the Bloomsbury set in the mid-1920s as a centre for personal growth, innovative education and rural regeneration, inspired by the environment. It still has the arts, ecology, sustainability and social justice at its heart and aims to be 'a laboratory for living and learning with the purpose of pioneering deep personal and societal change'.

Helen Mark finds out about the extraordinary history, present and future of a movement and community inspired by the landscape of Dartington.

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