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Open Country: Coventry Edgelands

Coventry Edgelands

12/04/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, Coventry Edgelands

Helen Mark visits Coventry to discover its Edgelands, the places in between landscapes.

Overlooked, ignored and unruly 'edgelands' exist between the urban and the rural. Helen Mark visits Coventry to find out why these landscapes we all know are now inspiring artists.

Helen Mark explores the landscape in between the city of Coventry and the countryside which surrounds it. These 'edgelands' are often ignored yet they are also places which inspire artists and writers and can tell us about how we live today. Tile Hill is the place which the artist George Shaw depicts in his work and inspired by him poet Liz Berry has written about these 'edgelands' and the stories they contain. Jonny Bark is a photographer who has recently explored this theme in his work around Coventry and writer JD Taylor has spent time travelling around these overlooked places in search of who we are and how we live in 21st Century Britain.

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