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Last broadcast on Fri, 6 Nov 2009, 23:00 on BBC Radio 3.
Synopsis
Writer Robert Macfarlane walks the length of the South Downs, exploring its chalk path and its ghosts.
Walking the final miles of the South Downs with artist Chris Drury, Robert explores the sometimes eerie relationship between walking, collecting and creation. Vladimir Nabokov, Iris Murdoch, Hugh MacDiarmid, Bruce Chatwin and Drury's own land-art sculptures feature, as does the life and death of Virginia Woolf, who drowned herself in the Sussex Ouse having slipped a single, heavy flint into her pocket.
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Fri 6 Nov 200923:00
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