‘Once I got to Europe that was it. I felt like I was coming back to older roots than the roots I was born with. My grandparents came from Europe, and although if they were alive, they would have thought it horrible that I'd left the New World to return to the old one. But I was…that was the right direction for me’ - Karyn Prentice Karyn Prentice left her childhood roots in Los Angeles to study in Paris after being unexpectedly orphaned at the age of sixteen when intuitively she knew would nev...

"It's deepening into…an apprenticeship, it's deepening into a love affair, it's deepening into friendship. It's so kind of nuanced and colourful. It's difficult to put into words. But I'm opening like a flower. The more time I'd spend with nature, not just in nature, but, like, really being in conversation with nature, and listening which is an ongoing practice, it's just been extraordinary, the impact that it's had on my life. I don't quite know where it's going. I don't really want to...

‘I feel almost parental towards it. I've seen it as a tiny little trickle, and I've seen it beautifully pure, the water, as if you could take a drink out of it. There are elements of the walk that take you away from the river. There's either diversions or just naturally areas that we can't walk past, and I miss it. It doesn't feel like our walk. It doesn't feel like our journey when we're not next to the Thames. I'm almost tracking and tracing its journey, and I have 3 children, so I'...

‘Slowing down, letting go, being quiet. And probably in the first time in my life, I feel quite calmly that. The phrase I’ve used recently is, ‘I’m not chasing chickens’ and that feels like a big relief’ I love your introduction, it felt slow and gentle and that feels ridiculously almost like a novelty in this world. Everything’s quick, faster and convenient – or we’re led to believe’ – Carmen Rendell Old wise woman and fairy godmother Carmen Rendell joins us from Richmond on Thames ami...

'When I got the diagnosis, it was like, all of a sudden so many things made so much sense. I’d always given myself a really hard time. My choice was to start medication, and that’s been really helpful for me. It almost opened up a whole world of possibilities. I kind of went from feeling like I had to be running all the time, to feeling like I could actually stand still and make some choice' - Emma Thorp Rooted in the unique heath and woodland of Ashdown Forest in East Sussex Emma Thor...

‘I really want to be having conversations that maybe there hasn’t been the space for, or are a bit crunchy, or hard, or maybe there’s kind of conflicting opinion. And we don’t have the answers. I really want to be creating space and getting the experts in, and then understanding their journey, and what is it that has drawn them to the areas within which they work, and where they’re trying to make a difference’ Anna-Marie Watson Set against the autumn Equinox on the ancient land of...