Brecon Beacons - Art in the Park
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2012
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding walks part of the Beacons Way in the Brecon Beacons National Park to find out how people are being inspired to create their own response to the surrounding landscape. The Park's landscape has inspired artists for generations and today Clare is joined by Robert Macdonald, one of 8 artists to create a series of images which are set into stone along sections of the footpath as part of a project called 'Art in the Park'. Groups from schools and colleges, as well as people from outside of the Park boundaries, have been encouraged to walk sections of the Beacons Way and gain inspiration themselves from the art work and from the landscape around them.
Leading the walk today are some of the people involved with the project from both National Park and the Brecon Beacons Park Society and, as they walk, Clare talks to members of a group from Drugaid Cymru to find out how the project is helping, and inspiring, them.
Presenter: Clare Balding Producer: Helen Chetwynd.
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| 0:12.9 | All are big enough to kill you. |
| 0:14.3 | He just flew out into Devoid, and he was gone. |
| 0:17.3 | How did it all go so wrong? |
| 0:19.2 | And is it really worth risking death to feel alive? |
| 0:22.2 | Why would somebody pay to go to a place called the death zone on vacation? |
| 0:27.3 | Extreme. Peak Danger. |
| 0:29.3 | With me, Natalia Melman Petrazella. |
| 0:31.7 | Listen to the full series now. |
| 0:33.3 | First on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:40.8 | This is the Coast and Country podcast from the BBC. |
| 0:44.8 | You can find that terms and conditions on our website at BBC.com.ukour. |
| 0:49.6 | Forward slash Radio 4. |
| 0:52.0 | Today you can hear ramblings with Claire Balding. |
| 1:01.2 | Welcome to everybody here today. |
| 1:03.2 | We're here in the fantastic Brecon Brecon's National Park. |
| 1:05.5 | My name's Hayley Sharp. |
| 1:06.7 | I work as an education officer for the National Park. |
| 1:08.9 | I've done this walk with Hugh Price quite a few times now, Hugh. |
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