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Wordquest-fm No 26 [9 February 2012]. Alan Bennett reads Winnie the Pooh in an archive recording from BBC.
Wordquest-fm No 25 [2 February 2012]. Richard Povall explores ghost stories, pixies, and extraordinary writing about the Dartmoor landscape - all found on youtube.
Wordquest-fm No 22 [12 January 2012] readings by Dani Redd, Graham Burchell, Janet Shartp, Sara Hurley, Susannah Lash, Douglas Young, Erica Loram, James Paxman, Laurence Shelley, Lunar Hine, Peter Villiers, and Phil De Burlet, all from workshop writing done as part of Clare George's 'A Short History of the Future of Dartmoor'. All of these readings are also featured below, including the ones we weren't able to include in the show.
Wordquest-fm No 18 [24 November 2011] from Aune Head Arts' 'soundings' project. Sound artists Sue Palmer, Jennie Hayes and Kate Green and the voices of older people living in three rural Devon communities.
Wordquest-fm No. 15 [3 November 2011] The Cockington Complex, with GeoTrio (Phil Smith, Tony Lidington, and Hugh Nankivell) - a musical, botanical, theatrical, historical, sociological, geological and mythological walk around the grounds of Cockington Court, Torquay. Recording by Anna Keleher (edited for radio)
Wordquest-fm No. 13 [20 October 2011] guest writer: Laurence Shelley. Laurence, from Bideford, talks about using walking, hitch-hiking, place and chance as inspiration.
A Short History of the Future of Dartmoor - Workshop Stories
Below are a section of short stories created in the writing workshops led by Clare George as part of her 'Imagine There's a Future' project.
Starting with a discussion of today’s plans for the National Park, participants were transported to 2084, where they were presented a short history of how those plans worked out. Participants then worked together and separately to create their own stories set in that imagined future....
The British Library has released a CD called "The Writing Life: Authors Speak" with a fabulous set of interviews with giants of 20thC literature. It is not available for dowload, but you can find out more here.
