Under Milk Wood
Radio 4’s Saturday Drama was a real treat yesterday – a re-run of the 2003 adaptation of Under Milk Wood, in which Richard Burton’s unbeatable 1963…
A Man Called Ove
The Captain Corelli's Mandolin of 2014. We enjoyed it as an audio book for the 8 hour trip from the fjords to Gothenburg, but laughed and…
American Interior: in search of a lost Welsh tribe
“In 1792 John Evans, a 22 year old weaver from Waunfawr in the mountains of Snowdonia, Wales, responded to a plea from the great Welsh cultural…
Latitude 2014
Ah, Latitude again, for what is becoming an annual pilgramage with my lifetime best friends. The performances don’t really matter when you are with the your…
Five Years in the Welsh Hills
I can’t remember who bought me ‘Deep Country’ for Xmas, but Neil Ansell’s autobiographical account of five years living in a Victorian game-keeper’s cottage in the…
The Old Ways
I finished reading 'The Old Ways', Robert Macfarlane's joyous account of journeys on foot, on a plane to South Africa in January. But such is the…
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