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Book of the Week: RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR

Tobias Menzies

Philip Hoare

Duncan Minshull

Book of the Week: RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR: Episode 2

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Episode 2

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Author Philip Hoare examines his and other people's passions for watery worlds.

Examining our passion for watery worlds, Philip Hoare is in Scotland, in lighthouse land, communing with all manner of birdlife too.

In his new book, Philip Hoare seeks out various shorelines, examining our need to be immersed in water. Or at least to be near it.

To Scotland. To the North Sea. To Bass Rock: a 'wedding cake dropped into cold waters', where the bird life teems and where he thinks about light-houses, those built by the Stevensons.

Reader Tobias Menzies

Producer Duncan Minshull.

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Philip Hoare examines our need to be immersed in water. Or at least to be near it.

Philip Hoare seeks out various shorelines, examining our need to be immersed in water. Or at least to be near it.

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