Artist, broadcaster and writer Charlie Lee-Potter takes contemplative walks with a musician, artist, writer or scientist. The name comes from writer Nan Shepherd’s haunting phrase that ’a mountain has an inside’ - walking isn’t to accumulate miles or conquer peaks but to immerse yourself in landscape. Every episode evokes place with a complex, mixed soundscape.
Episodes
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
EPISODE 4
The acclaimed cellist Natalie Clein talks about her music and explains what creativity means to her. Returning to her childhood home on the Dorset coast, she walks with Charlie and they find a tent of trees in the woods.
MUSIC:
Bloch, Ligeti & Dallapiccola: Suites for Solo Cello
Hyperion Records.
Cello: Natalie Clein
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68155
Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata
Hyperion Records
Cello: Natalie Clein Piano: Christian Ihle Hadland
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68253
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
EPISODE 3
Kate Kennedy has written a mesmerising and deeply moving book about the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, Dweller in Shadows. Gurney's life was beset by mental illness, disappointment and the trauma of war. He spent the last fifteen years of his life in an asylum, separated from the Gloucestershire countryside which shines from his work. In this episode Kate and Charlie explore the same fields that Gurney loved to walk, Kate talks about his life, and we hear some of the music Gurney was celebrated for.
Cello: Kate Kennedy
Piano: Simon Over
Tenor: Dominic Bevan
Sound recordist for 'Severn Meadows': Theo Kennnedy
Produced, edited, written and presented by Charlie Lee-Potter
Thursday May 27, 2021
Thursday May 27, 2021
EPISODE 2
Botanical artist and illustrator Anna Koska uses the ancient, but now rare, medium of egg tempera to create beautiful paintings of the natural world. In this episode she and Charlie take a walk along the coast and find wild garlic, sea kale and an exquisite bird's nest. Anna takes a wild, icy swim, explains how she's developed her unique method of painting, and reads from her new book From Field and Forest: An artist's year in paint and pen.
Produced, edited, written and presented by Charlie Lee-Potter
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
EPISODE 1
The writer Sally Bayley had a chaotic, deprived childhood in a household of 12 children and 3 adults. But since placing herself in care at the age of 14, she's gone on to teach English Literature at Oxford and to find a new way of writing fiction. Her books Girl with Dove and No Boys Play Here conjure imaginary and literary landscapes for Sally, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield and Falstaff to walk through together.
In this episode, Sally revisits her early life with artist and writer Charlie Lee-Potter. As they walk along the riverbank in Oxford and around the seaside town she escaped from as a teenager, Sally explains how literature and a powerful imagination shaped her. The programme is layered with sound, memory and reflections on the landscapes of our past.
Produced, edited, written and presented by Charlie Lee-Potter
