I'm interested in how language connects or fails to connect us to our places. I wrote a long essay about the precision of Gallic and its extraordinary ability to name place into being. National Park Authority is now trying to create a glossary of, as it were, knowledge of intimacy for different landscapes in the UK. That's not really an answer to your question but it's sort of a response.
For several years and more than a thousand miles, celebrated travel writer Robert Macfarlane has been following the vast network of old paths and routes that criss-cross Britain and its waters, looking at their connections to countries and continents beyond.
In this event, recorded at the Tabernacle in London On the 12th of June 2012, Macfarlane tells us his enthralling accounts of the ghosts and voices that haunt old tracks, of songlines and their singers, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of rights of way and rites of passage.
This event was produced by Executive Producer Hannah Kaye with editing by Executive Producer Rowan Slaney.
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