Robert Macfarlane & Johnny Flynn at Wandlebury
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister
4.8 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Question: What do you get when you go walking with the nature writer Robert Macfarlane and the actor and musician Johnny Flynn on a scorching hot summer's day in Wandlebury?
Answer: A Neolithic track, an Iron Age fort, a Roman road, a holm oak, cow pats, a mighty avenue of sun-dappled beech, a buzzard, a grasshopper orchestra, a dragonfly, the stories of a mysterious white horse and a dread augury and countless busy, buzzing bees. Oh, and no fewer than six extraordinary songs performed along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | When we heard that two of our favourite people had got together and made an album, |
| 0:09.3 | we just had to organise a walk with them. |
| 0:12.1 | The musician and actor Johnny Flynn and the writer Robert McFarlane have spent the lockdown |
| 0:18.0 | creating an album called Lost in the Cedarwood. |
| 0:21.4 | And on a hot, hot day, we've come to the outskirts of Cambridge |
| 0:25.6 | to the Wondelbury Country Park, and we're going to go on a walk with these two |
| 0:30.7 | and learn more about their relationship and about the music that they've created together. |
| 0:36.8 | Three, four. |
| 0:51.6 | There's a black dog following hard on my tree. There's a black dog following heart on my tree |
| 0:56.0 | Except for I'm on hollowing my heart did it fade |
| 1:03.0 | Got nine days sleepers seeking to keep this dog off my tape. |
| 1:14.6 | Dogged these old bag ofones are seven times home. |
| 1:20.6 | Oh, I'm 10 degrees of strange. I'm trying to change. |
| 1:25.6 | Trying to shake up my shadow Still hoping |
| 1:29.3 | To stay out of the black dogs rain |
| 1:33.3 | So I run |
| 1:37.3 | Because I must |
| 1:39.3 | Leave that dog in the dust |
| 1:42.3 | Gonna run like the river |
| 1:46.1 | right down to the sea. |
| 1:50.8 | Gonna run like the sap |
| 1:53.6 | through the heart of a tree. |
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