That wonderful writer about the natural world and about walking, Robert McFarlane says,

A walk is only a step away from a story and every path tells. And that could be a manifesto for

folk on foot. It could be a manifesto for this podcast, except Robert. What we do on

this podcast is we add in songs too. So on these paths, we hear stories and we hear wonderful songs. I'm. I'm. We just got off the train at New Craig Hall, which is just two stops south of Edinburgh,

and we're here to meet Kareem Paul Watt, who's a wonderful songwriter, singer, poet, storyteller, winner of many Radio 2 folk awards,

including the 2018 Folk Singer of the Year Award.

But I first came across her a couple of years ago when I saw her one woman show Wind Resistance

at the Edinburgh Festival.

And it's an amazing show which is set at a place called Faler Moore,

near to where Corrine lives,

and it heads off in all sorts of mystical and poetic directions.

But as I was watching the show, I thought it would be a wonderful thing to visit Faler Moore

and to visit it with Corrine herself and get her to tell me why the place had made such an impact on her.

And that, I hope, is what she's going to do for us today.

Hi, we're just here.

No, we're just standing on the platform.

We were just recording. So Karin picks us up at the station in her car and we've come to Phala and we've driven up a track,

just caught the car on a couple of speed bumps and the track is surrounded by

hedges on either side and we're going to go

for a walk towards the moor now

so Kareen will you tell us

why this place made

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