A beautiful, bird-filled episode from the wonderful collaborative duo of writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris. Together they have created some of the best-loved books on the natural world in recent years, including The Lost Words.

In this transcendent episode they share their quite different visions of what rest looks like for them. Robert conjures a wild, bird-filled landscape in the Scottish Cairngorms whilst Jackie imagines taking a sentient ship to a melding of The Rain Wilds and Earthsea. Full of wonder, wild knitting, ‘glacial erratics’, laughter and of course plenty of nature chat, this episode is a true salve for the soul.

Links from the episode

The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane 

The Lost Words by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane 

The Lost Spells by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane

Jackie’s Instagram

Jackie’s website

Robert’s Instagram

Deep Deep Light pain brushes and paints https://deepdeeplight.com/ 

A Wizard of Earthseaby Ursula K. Le Guin

The Rain Wild Chronicles by Robin Hobb

The Illustration Department Podcast

Artist David Gentleman

Read about Albrecht Dürer’s painting Young Hare here 

The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

Read about artist Mark Rothko on the Moma website

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Producer - Alice Lloyd

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