Urban Witch and academic, Alice Tarbuck, shares her approach to magic through connecting to the natural world and folklore.

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Euan McIlwraith and Helen Needham chat with Alice about her book 'A Spell in the Wild.'

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?
0:06.6	Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,
0:12.7	and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked.
0:15.7	Good things come to those who don't wait.
0:18.7	Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.
0:23.9	The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. Witchcraft starts happening when our bodies come right up to the edge of their sensory and linguistic abilities, and life keeps going anyway.
0:50.3	When I look out my window, anyway. It happens when we realize that we cannot, truly, describe the way flowers smelled one night on our holiday, but that we can hold the scent
1:14.6	inside us, can conjure it back. When we try to describe the way geranium petals hold the light
1:23.2	of the day inside them until the last second of dusk seemed somehow lambent in their redness
1:31.3	as if they could single-handed stop the night from happening. And we realise that we can't.
1:38.3	Must be the season of the witch, must be the season of the witch.
1:44.5	Must be the season of the witch, yeah.
1:49.1	Must be the season of the witch.
1:53.6	Hello and thank you for downloading this podcast.
1:56.7	I'm Ewan McElwraith.
1:57.6	I work across radio and television.
2:00.4	And the bulk of my reporting involves nature, wildlife, or landscape.
2:06.2	And that's inevitably led me to being intrigued by witches and the magic.
2:10.4	I'm looking at my bookshelf at the moment.
2:12.3	And I've got a copy of Festivals of Scotland by Mary McNeil.
2:15.9	A piece on the Witch's Craft.
2:18.5	Scotland and witchcraft go hand in hand.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.