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Ramblings

Artists' Ways - Falkirk

Ramblings

BBC

Nature, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Science

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Clare Balding walks along the Forth and Clyde canal to the spectacular Kelpies - 30 metre high statues of horses' heads, modelled on Clydesdales. Walking with her is a group led by Jan Bee Brown - the Reader in Residence at Falkirk Libraries.

Producer: Karen Gregor.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a BBC Radio 4 download.

0:02.5

You're listening to me.

0:03.6

Claire Balding with another edition of Ramblings.

0:08.8

Today on Ramblings, I've come to Scotland to Falkirk.

0:12.4

I'm joining a group that's been set up by Jan B. Brown,

0:16.1

and she is the reader in residence with the Scottish Book Trust and with the Falkirk Libraries.

0:22.0

This series of roundings is about artists' ways.

0:25.5

We're going to various different places to explore what people are doing to connect walking with art.

0:30.7

And Jan, really, that's the concept of what you're doing here, isn't it?

0:34.5

It's the beginning of it anyway.

0:35.4

That's right. I'm very much about telling stories with my works.

0:39.5

And every story that I tell might have a different method I'm using,

0:44.0

might be knitting something or felting something or photographing.

0:48.0

And words always come into it.

0:49.9

And so I wanted people to just get used to playing with words, get that enjoyment back.

0:56.2

It's just getting people comfortable with being creative.

1:01.0

So whilst we're going along, if you can take a note or a mental or otherwise,

1:05.2

because everybody's got a pad and pencil.

1:07.8

Have you got a pencil for me?

1:08.9

Yes, of course.

1:09.6

I can write on the back of this card.

1:10.5

No, we've got a pad.

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