Book of the Week - The Wild Places
Robert Macfarlane explores Britain's wild places as he visits and describes parts of the land no longer acknowledged in modern road atlases
Book of the Week - The Wild Places - Episode 1
The Wild Places: Robert Macfarlane explores Britain's wild places. 1/5. His odyssey begins in the sanctuary valley of Coruisk on the Isle of Skye. Read by Richard Greenwood.
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Book of the Week - The Wild Places - Episode 2
The Wild Places: Robert Macfarlane explores Britain's wild places. 2/5. Strathnaver in North West Scotland has been a place of human habitation for over 6,000 years.
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Book of the Week - The Wild Places - Episode 3
The Wild Places: Robert Macfarlane explores Britain's wild places. 3/5. A nocturnal walk along snow-covered mountains reveals that wildness can still be found in the Lake District.
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Book of the Week - The Wild Places - Episode 4
The Wild Places: Robert Macfarlane explores Britain's wild places. 4/5. An abandoned estate shows that wildness still flourishes on the fringes of Essex. Read by Richard Greenwood.
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Book of the Week - The Wild Places - Episode 5
The Wild Places: Robert Macfarlane explores Britain's wild places. 5/5. Sitting in the upper branches of a beech tree in Cambridge, the author reaches some surprising conclusions.
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