The things you can only see by slowing down
BBC Earth Podcast
Jenkins Laura
4.6 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The world is moving and changing at an ever-increasing speed, but we’re all starting to realise the importance of slowing down. This week we meet Amy Powney who explains how the influence of her off-the-grid childhood led her to be a pioneer in slow, sustainable fashion. Plus, the cameramen who help us understand creatures and plants on different time scales to our own with the help of specialised equipment and a lot of patience. We also meet Lauren Gay who, in 2015, spontaneously booked a “part bucket list adventure trip and part mental health break”. She had no idea how this trip to the Azores would change her life for good.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from BBC Studios. |
| 0:04.0 | BBC Studios. |
| 0:06.0 | A commercial subsidiary of the BBC. |
| 0:10.0 | I grew up in Lancashire, which is northwest England, in a very small farming village, and |
| 0:23.0 | we owned a small plot of land where my mum had a couple of horses. |
| 0:28.1 | We were completely on the outskirts, so it would have been about, I mean, a good hour |
| 0:32.1 | and 20 minutes walk for me to get to school, so it was really sort of quite rural, and of |
| 0:37.3 | course been west of the Pennines, it rained all the time. |
| 0:42.1 | Welcome to the BBC Earth podcast, the podcast that this week is taking its foot off the gas. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm Emily Knight. |
| 0:51.1 | I mean, we had a goat that we used to milk before we went to school. |
| 0:55.5 | We had chickens. I think I had had a goat that we used to melt before we went to school. We had chickens. |
| 1:02.4 | I think I had about 15 animals at one point. In this episode, we're swimming in the slow lane. |
| 1:08.6 | We're going right back to basics, stripping away the frantic, fast-paced nonsense of modern life with stories about slowing down. |
| 1:11.6 | In a world of fast food, fast fashion, quick fixes and rapid response, |
| 1:16.6 | we're learning to appreciate life at a very different pace. |
| 1:22.6 | To take liberties with a little bit of Shakespeare, some of us are born into the slow life. |
| 1:32.8 | Some achieve the slow life, and some of us have the slow life thrust upon them. |
| 1:36.0 | Amy Powney was the latter. |
| 1:42.0 | When I was about sort of 11 or 12 years old, my parents had this idea to sort of live the good life, this sort of hairbrained idea that they would take our small barn and see if they could renovate it into our house. |
| 1:49.5 | So we set off on a little journey and sold our house and moved to a caravan whilst my dad sort of tried to buy his own hands, turn the barns into a house. |
| 2:01.6 | We actually lived off grid so we didn't have mains water, mains electricity, or mains gas. |
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