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Free Thinking: Wild Isles and nature writing

Wild Isles and nature writing

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Writers Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Horatio Clare and Jacob Polley.

Moss has inspired the latest book by poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett. Jacob Polley has been thinking about what wildness means for plants and humans. Horatio Clare records sound walks.

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Horatio Clare and Jacob Polley join Catherine Fletcher for a conversation about nature writing and the landscapes depicted in the TV series Wild Isles. Ecopoet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett's new book makes its way through mossy wetlands from Somerset to Country Tyrone, Newcastle based poet Jacob Polley, has been exploring what it might mean to interpret and translate wildness into human language and human understanding and Horatio Clare, has recorded many sound walks for BBC Radio 3. 

Producer in Salford: Ruth Thomson

You can hear a range of wildlife recordings from the TV Series “Wild Isles” in Radio 3’s Sunday Breakfast “Sounds of the Earth” nature collage alongside complementary reflective music tracks. Two episodes of Words and Music inspired by British nature are available on BBC Sounds and Wild Isles is available on the iPlayer.
Free Thinking has a series of episodes looking at different aspects of new research and writing on Green Thinking collected together on the programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07zg0r2

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