Proms Plus: British Countryside real & imagined
Writer Melissa Harrison, archaeologist Francis Pryor on British countryside & rural life
Arts & Ideas · BBC Radio 4
July 27, 201836m 31s
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Show Notes
Ever since the ancient Greeks, writers have waxed lyrical about rural life, associating it with beauty, innocence and goodness. Will Abberley, BBC New Generation Thinker and senior lecturer in English at the University of Sussex is joined by writer Melissa Harrison & archaeologist and sheep farmer Francis Pryor to discuss the British countryside real and imagined.
Producer: Luke Mulhall