Artists' Ways - North Somerset
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2015
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding walks with Carolyn Savidge in the final programme of this series which has been themed Artists' Ways. In the first programme she walked with an artist who created outdoor artworks to help her to come to terms with never having had children. In this final programme, Carolyn explains how walking and art have helped her deal with the loss of her husband.
Carolyn's walk leaves from her front door in the village of Bleadon in North Somerset, and takes her out onto the hills and levels of north Somerset. On the way she describes the written, photographic and sound based project she has created since losing her husband to cancer. It's a moving walk, but also very uplifting as Carolyn describes how embracing the landscape has helped her begin to move forward with her life.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a BBC Radio 4 download. You're listening to me. Claire Balding with another edition of Ramblings. |
| 0:08.7 | For the last programme in this series of Ramblings, I've come to Somerset. Not far from Western Supermare. |
| 0:14.6 | It's a gorgeous late summer's day. Lots of people are heading to the beach. But we are heading for the hills. |
| 0:20.8 | Because the beautiful thing about this location, very close to the M5 motor are heading for the hills because the beautiful thing about |
| 0:21.9 | this location very close to the M5 motorways so easy to get to and you can either go to the coast |
| 0:27.2 | or you can go into the mendips I've come here to meet Carolyn Savage and it's not often allowed |
| 0:33.6 | Carolyn that that Archie can come to but very kindly you said it would be all right for him. |
| 0:37.9 | And as long as he behaves himself. He'll be fine. He could be in our gang. Just the three of us. |
| 0:42.8 | Exactly. Well, here we are. You can see the Somerset levels unfolding before you. It looks like |
| 0:49.1 | a giant carpet to me with all the different fields delineated by the river axe which is flowing it from the |
| 0:55.7 | Bristol channel I wanted to bring you this way because it's just outside of my cottage and immediately |
| 1:01.3 | you get a feeling of openness from the Somerset levels it's quite important to me because I actually |
| 1:07.3 | grew up in Somerset oh did you whereabouts a place called Chorthond Domain near Yeoval. |
| 1:12.4 | And I swore I'd never come back. |
| 1:14.6 | And here I am, 35, 40 years later, |
| 1:18.1 | walking the earth of the Somerset level. |
| 1:22.7 | So I'm really called up on a kissing gate, can you? |
| 1:25.1 | This gate? |
| 1:25.9 | No. |
| 1:27.0 | They're very modern these ones and quite |
| 1:28.8 | quite noisy yes what brought you back to somerset it was about five years ago i was invited to come and |
| 1:36.2 | work as a teacher developing dance and drama in the primary schools so i had 11 or 12 primary |
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