Inside A Mountain: walking real and imaginary landscape with Charlie Lee-Potter
Charlie Lee-Potter
15 episodes
4 months ago
Inside A Mountain takes its name from nature writer Nan Shepherd's haunting phrase that 'a mountain has an inside'. In other words, walking isn't to accumulate miles or conquer peaks, but to experience the transformative power of moving through real and imaginary space. Using soundscape and music, Charlie Lee-Potter take contemplative walks with musicians, artists, writers and scientists.
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Inside A Mountain takes its name from nature writer Nan Shepherd's haunting phrase that 'a mountain has an inside'. In other words, walking isn't to accumulate miles or conquer peaks, but to experience the transformative power of moving through real and imaginary space. Using soundscape and music, Charlie Lee-Potter take contemplative walks with musicians, artists, writers and scientists.
SERIES 2: EPISODE 1: Telling stories with the poet Ian McMillan
Inside A Mountain: walking real and imaginary landscape with Charlie Lee-Potter
53 minutes 54 seconds
3 years ago
SERIES 2: EPISODE 1: Telling stories with the poet Ian McMillan
SERIES 2
Episode 1: Dodging Falling Trees with Ian McMillan
The poet Ian McMillan, presenter of The Verb on BBC Radio 3 and poet-in-residence at Barnsley Football Club, tells stories by the yard - eccentric, ridiculous, compassionate and wise. Ian has lived in the same South Yorkshire village of Darfield his entire life and writes about it with a unique mix of pride and hilarity. He's a performance poet and author of biographical stories such as My Sand Life, My Pebble Life: a Memoir of Childhood and the Sea, and Neither Nowt Nor Summat, a perplexed rummage in the mystery of what it means to be 'Yorkshire enough'. His writing has readers weeping with laughter, but there's deep human kindness in there too. Ian and Charlie start their walk in the graveyard of Darfield Church, but they don't get very far before trees intervene...
Inside A Mountain: walking real and imaginary landscape with Charlie Lee-Potter
Inside A Mountain takes its name from nature writer Nan Shepherd's haunting phrase that 'a mountain has an inside'. In other words, walking isn't to accumulate miles or conquer peaks, but to experience the transformative power of moving through real and imaginary space. Using soundscape and music, Charlie Lee-Potter take contemplative walks with musicians, artists, writers and scientists.
