Writing and Place: Cornwall

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The coastline of Cornwall and its communities are the subject of a non fiction book called The Draw of the Sea by Wyl Menmuir. He joins writer Natasha Carthew in a conversation about the importance of place hosted by Joan Passey, who is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker and author of Cornish Gothic 1830-1913. Wyl Menmuir's novels include The Many and Fox Fires. Natasha Carthew is a poet and author of a memoir called Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience

Producer: Luke Mulhall

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