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Jake Morris-Campbell carries the ashes of poet Bill Martin from Sunderland to Durham.

A meditation on Bill Martin's poetry of pits, Buddhist-inspired pilgrimage and the post-industrial landscape once inhabited by the Haliwerfolc.

Comrade or "marra" in north east dialect, and the "dharma" or the way - were put together in a portmanteau word by poet Bill Martin (1925-2010).  Poet and New Generation Thinker Jake Morris-Campbell reflects on this idea of Marradharma and what it offers to future generations growing up in the post-Brexit and post-industrial landscape of the north east.  In his essay, Jake remembers the pilgrimage he made in 2016 carrying Bill Martin's ashes in a ram's horn from Sunderland (Martin was born in a nearby pit village) to Durham Cathedral.  

Jake Morris-Campbell teaches at Newcastle University and was selected as a New Generation Thinker in 2021 on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.  You can find him discussing ideas about darkness in a Free Thinking discussion recorded at Sage Gateshead as part of Radio 3's After Dark festival, and looking at mining, coal and DH Lawrence https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xmjy 

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

The Essay: New Generation Thinkers 2021

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The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers stretch their broadcasting wings

The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers, the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Council that turns research into radio, stretch their broadcasting wings.

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