Cornwall and the Coastal Gothic

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Bait depicted Cornish second-home owners in a tense relationship with local fishermen. The 2019 film's director Mark Jenkin is one of Laurence Scott's guests along with author Wyl Menmuir, and Joan Passey, from the University of Bristol, where she is researching ideas about the sea as a monstrous space. Their conversation ranges from The Jewel of the Seven Stars by Bram Stoker via Wyl's novel The Many, centred on a derelict home in a coastal village and ideas about outsiders, to Celtic Cornish Breton connections.

In our archives and available to download, you can find a Free Thinking discussion about ideas of Revenge and Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel - about a young man brought up in Cornwall and the widow of his cousin who comes to the county. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08slx9w

Our Green Thinking playlist includes programmes exploring oceans, rising UK sea levels and the insights gained from new research. The Green Thinking podcast is 26 episodes 26 minutes long for COP 26 hearing from a range of academics looking at challenges facing the planet.

Producer: Luke Mulhall

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0:40.3	Hello, I'm Lauren Scott, and in this episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast, we're diving
0:45.3	into the genre of coastal Gothic.
0:47.6	We're asking why British coastlines are depicted as both beautiful and menacing.
0:52.5	What fears dwell at the rocky edges of our national imagination?
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0:58.1	Hello, my name's Ian McMillan, and before you slide into the podcast you were expecting,
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