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 1 Heading Out to Sea

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

Ep 1 Heading Out to Sea

BBC Radio 4 - Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, by Lamorna Ash, Ep 1 Heading Out to Sea

Lamorna Ash's evocative memoir about Cornwall and fishing.

Lamorna Ash's evocative and vivid memoir about the fishing community in Newlyn, Cornwall. Today, Lamorna sets out to secure a berth on a working trawler.  Read by Ell Potter.

For twenty-two-year old Lamorna Ash Cornwall has always been an idyll, the place where her mother grew up, and where she spent her summer holidays. Now, Larmorna is travelling to the town of Newlyn, close to Land's End, with a view to finding out about its fishing community and its heritage.  In today's episode, Lamorna is settling in and she sets out to secure a berth on a working trawler. The reader is Ell Potter.

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

Abridged by Julian Wilkinson
Produced by Elizabeth Allard

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An evocative portrait of life in Newlyn, the largest working fishing port in Britain.

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