“To enter a wood is to pass into a different world” said author Roger Deakin, and in this episode, recorded in ancient Staverton Thicks forest, we explore why it is that there is a history of humans going to the woods to grow and learn, and to travel to find ourselves, often by getting lost. Why is it a place of story-telling, of fairy tales, of childhood imagination?
Disorientating for many modern humans, is there a density of ‘otherness’ in forest, and is this why for us the wild wood is it place of fear but also a place that we love? Sit with us on a mossy fallen tree as we question whether these are places to hide, to escape and adventure, or ones to fear where the non-human - or perhaps human - is watching us.
THEME MUSIC BY DAVID ROTHENBERG. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. USED BY KIND PERMISSION OF THE ARTIST http://www.davidrothenberg.net
Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:
Blair Witch Project
The Legend of Boggy Creek
Staverton Thicks
Pollarding
Gossip from the Forest - Sara Maitland
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Wood - Andy Goldsworthy
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorn
The Consolations of the Forest - Sylvain Tesson
Wild Wood - Roger Deakin
Woodlands - Oliver Rackham
Lord of the Rings
Domesday Book
Beowulf
Białowieża
Baka people
The Witch - Robert Eggers
Grizzly Adams
Olympic National Park
Massachusetts
Polish Jewish villages
14. The Bear ~ totem and reality in Asturias
13. Sounds. Part 2 ~ messages from the non-human
12. Ghosts in the Darkness ~ fears at night's door
10. Thea Smiley. The Woodwose ~ wild people
9. Tracks ~ marks on the land
8. The Night ~ seeing ourselves more clearly
7. The Wind ~ moving across worlds
6. Sounds. Part 1 ~ power over us
5. Robert Lloyd Parry. Fear ~ in the non-human
1. The Light ~ how we see things
4. Fire ~ and the human imagination
3. The Ancestors ~ death, life & spirit
2. Ritual and Ceremony ~ cycles and creation
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