Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Village

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Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, by Lamorna Ash: Ep 2 The First Haul

Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, by Lamorna Ash

Ep 2 The First Haul

BBC Radio 4 - Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, by Lamorna Ash, Ep 2 The First Haul

In her memoir Lamorna Ash is on board a fishing trawler, and experiences her first haul.

In Lamorna Ash's vivid memoir about Newlyn's fishing community, she is on the high seas, on board a fishing trawler where she experiences her first haul. Ell Potter reads.

In Lamorna Ash's vivid memoir about Newlyn, the fishing town near to Land's End, she is out on the high seas on board, the fishing trawler, the Filadelfia, where she experiences her first haul. Back on land, she takes in a shift at the fish auction where a quarter of a million freshly caught fish have just arrived. Ell Potter reads.

Lamorna Ash is a writer and playwright. Dark, Salt, Clear is her first book.

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Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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