Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart

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🗓️ 20 August 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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For several years and more than a thousand miles, celebrated travel writer Robert Macfarlane has been following the vast network of old paths and routes that criss-cross Britain and its waters, looking at their connections to countries and continents beyond. In this event, recorded at the Tabernacle in London On the 12th of June 2012, Macfarlane tells us his enthralling accounts of the ghosts and voices that haunt old tracks, of songlines and their singers, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of rights of way and rites of passage. This event was produced by Executive Producer Hannah Kaye with editing by Executive Producer Rowan Slaney. To hear the full length episode of this event and to support our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations, head to intelligence Squared.com/membership or subscribe on Apple Podcasts — We’d love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be. Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to podcasts@intelligencesquared.com or Tweet us @intelligence2. And if you’d like to support our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations, as well as ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content, early access and much more, become a supporter of Intelligence Squared.. Just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.6	Catherine Hughes. How do the landscapes we love shape the people we are?
1:12.4	For several years and more than a thousand miles, Robert McFarlow has been following the vast
1:16.6	network of old paths and routes that cross across Britain and its waters and connect them to
1:21.5	countries and continents beyond. His journeys have taken him from the chalk downs of
1:26.3	southern England to the remote bird islands of the Scottish Northwest,
1:30.3	from the disputed territories of Palestine, to the pilgrimage routes of Spain and the sacred landscapes of the eastern Himalayas.
1:37.3	In this event recorded at the tabernacle in London on 12 June 2012, McFarland tells us of his time along the ways,
1:45.3	where he has walked stride for stride with a 5,000-year-old man near Liverpool,
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