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EPISODE 1 INTRODUCTION.

EPISODE 2 CELESTIAL INHABITANTS.

“In the Summer of 1800, William Blake and his wife Catherine left Lambeth for the “Vale of Felpham” at a time of vicious bread riots in London. They rented a cottage from the former landlord of the Fox Inn. Shortly after his arrival, Blake wrote to a friend, ‘Felpham is a sweet place for study, because it is more spiritual than London.”

EPISODE 3 EAST COAST.

The coastline of East Anglia is beguiling in its unique light, its landscape, and in the towns along its shores. I return time and time again to where Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk meet the sea. Essex from its broad sweep of sky and sea off Harwich to the creeks which confuse the divide between Benfleet and Canvey Island.

EPISODE 4 EAST COAST II.

Even in July, some evenings in Southwold are misty. The pier stands in the half light, and stars are just visible above the sea. The air is caught tonight. Only the tiniest murmur defies it. Walking towards the boating lake, the sky is already darkening towards Easton Bavents, where houses have been lost in the soft collapsing cliff.

EPISODE 5 HEDGEROW.

On a road made muddy by lorries from an aggregate site, opposite a packaging works and the remains of a wartime airfield, I am stunned by a spray of silvered leaves.

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BBC RADIO SUFFOLK BROADCAST 2020.

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