Walker and writer Linda Cracknell reflects on the luminosity of the quartz she finds on Ben Lawers, one of Scotland's most popular mountains. Show more
Derbyshire poet and climber Helen Mort reflects on the Peak District's Stanage Edge, famed for its millstone grit. Carved in situ, the millstones were transported around the UK. Show more
Writer Paul Evans traces a family line back through Shropshire's seams of coal. Chawtermaster Peake is the ancestor who hewed coal from Coalbrookdale, birthplace of industry. Show more
Sarah Moss explores the nature of igneous rocks. She talks about basalt and dolerite, the fire rocks that created Antrim's Giant's Causeway and Lindisfarne in Northumberland. Show more
