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Giving fiascos a bad name
How not to make a simple three-minute podcast piece.
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Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin
To mark the 300th anniversary of his birth, a brief account of Rev. Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin.
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Grandma’s organ donation
On the mysterious arrival, and equally mysterious disappearance, of a Wurlitzer organ.
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Orion’s belt-buckle
In celebration of my adopted star.
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‘Spiritual’ won’t do
In which I seek a better word to describe a profoundly uplifting sensation.
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Undermining religious tradition: a time-honoured religious tradition
Religious tradition has been being ‘undermined’ in Britain since recorded history began—most of the time by people of a distinctly religious persuasion.
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The Welsh side
In all my years visiting the Dee Marshes, I had never looked across them from the Welsh side.
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The joy of the familiar—and the unfamiliar—on a local patch
Getting to know a place well means knowing what to look forward to, and appreciating when something unusual happens.
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An atheist somehow manages to tell right from wrong
To think of all the deliciously immoral acts I could have been getting up to today, if only it had occurred to me I needn’t be impeded by any sense of right or wrong.
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An irrelevance in the landscape
On the realisation that the natural world gets on perfectly well without us.
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Notes from Nell Carr Farm
‘Notes from Walnut Tree Farm’ is by far my favourite Roger Deakin book. His assembled notes and jottings are packed full of ideas. The signal-to-noise ratio is phenomenal.
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Hebden’s non-eponymous bridges
In which I describe a few of my favourite bridges from my photo-project ‘Hebden’s Other Bridges’.