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Outsiders: By The Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

By The Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

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Writers on how lockdown has changed their relationship with the nature on their doorstep.

A year on since the first UK lockdown, writers reflect on their changing relationship with the outside world. Ep 3 - Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water.

Five writers on how a year of lockdowns has changed their relationship with the nature on their doorstep. This is nature writing for the ordinary, overlooked and not-so-great outdoors close to home.

What happens to nature writing when our access to the great outdoors becomes restricted? We asked writers to reflect on their personal experience of the past year and tell us about their small journeys into the outside world. Those patches of ground, water and sky close at hand which somehow seem more precious now that our access to the outdoors has become so strictly rationed. 

Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer living in South East London. His writing has been published in Litro, Granta and The White Review. He was named by ‘The Observer’ as one of the 10 best debut novelists of the year, for his book Open Water. He was also shortlisted for the 2020 BBC National Short Story Prize. 

Produced by Mair Bosworth and Eliza Lomas for BBC Audio in Bristol. Read by the author, with original music by Nina Perry.

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A year on since the first UK lockdown, Radio 4 invites five writers to tell us about the ways in which the pandemic has changed their relationship with the outside world.

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