Alice Oswald’s DART Part 2: from Buckfast Abbey to the Mew Stone via a derelict dairy and a boatyard

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The Curiously Specific Book Club

Lloyd Shepherd & Tim Wright

78 episodes

8 months ago

Forget Downton Abbey or The Crown, we use classic novels to guide you through the Britain of today and yesterday.

Every podcast, Lloyd & Tim – two funny book-loving blokes – take you on a walk or a road trip, using a well-known novel as the only guide.

Great literature, amazing landscapes and general laughter guaranteed with every episode.

Your presenters are:

Tim Wright (r): digital writer/consultant for web, mobile, radio, TV, theatre. Half of xpt.com. Former Head of Immersive at NFTS. Web here, Twitter here.

Lloyd Shepherd (l): author of 4 novels: The English Monster. The Poisoned Island. Savage Magic. The Detective and the Devil. Also does digital product development. Web here, Twitter here.

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Forget Downton Abbey or The Crown, we use classic novels to guide you through the Britain of today and yesterday.

Every podcast, Lloyd & Tim – two funny book-loving blokes – take you on a walk or a road trip, using a well-known novel as the only guide.

Great literature, amazing landscapes and general laughter guaranteed with every episode.

Your presenters are:

Tim Wright (r): digital writer/consultant for web, mobile, radio, TV, theatre. Half of xpt.com. Former Head of Immersive at NFTS. Web here, Twitter here.

Lloyd Shepherd (l): author of 4 novels: The English Monster. The Poisoned Island. Savage Magic. The Detective and the Devil. Also does digital product development. Web here, Twitter here.

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Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alice Oswald’s DART Part 2: from Buckfast Abbey to the Mew Stone via a derelict dairy and a boatyard

The Curiously Specific Book Club

52 minutes

2 years ago

Alice Oswald’s DART Part 2: from Buckfast Abbey to the Mew Stone via a derelict dairy and a boatyard

In Part Two of our adventures along the River Dart, we wonder whether the poet Alice Oswald genuinely walked the whole of the river from source to sea, thus producing her magnificent 2002 work ‘Dart’. We definitely believe she sat by the Totnes weir and probably saw seals on the Mew Stone. But did she really note down the names of all those boats in the many mooring sites along the way?

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