Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country

Laurence Llewelyn Bowen continues his series exploring ideas of the countryside over the last 200 years. In this week's episode, we travel to Cumbria to consider the mind of the poet William Wordsworth who developed an attitude to the natural world that embraced the countryside as a manifestation of God and an antidote to the dehumanizing effects of the city. In the Lake District he was inspired by the idea of the Sublime: the overwhelming and awe-inspiring contact with the brute force of nature, something so powerful that it shakes the beholder to the core. Producer: Kate Bland A Just Radio Production for BBC Radio 4.