Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Horatio Clare | 20090803 | A new piece of writing, recorded on location, exploring features of great significance to the landscape, wildlife and psyche of Wales - hills. Horatio Clare climbs from the bottom (where his mother now lives) to the top of the hill in Cwmdu, in the Black Mountains, where he grew up on a sheep farm. As Horatio climbs, he describes the geology, the flora and fauna, even the smell of this wild place - telling the stories of its people, and reflecting on how it formed him. Writer Horatio Clare returns to climb the hill where he grew up in the Black Mountains. |
| 02 | Osi Rhys Osmond | 20090803 | A new piece of writing, recorded on location, exploring features of great significance to the landscape, wildlife and psyche of Wales - hills. Painter and writer Osi Rhys Osmond walks around and up Mynydd Machen, to where spoil from the Risca colliery was hauled more than 1,000 feet up and then dumped. He explores how, as the coal industry disappeared, many such tips were flattened in a three-dimensional airbrushing of history, or possibly because they were too painful a memory. But some were fought for and have remained. He reflects on how the Mynydd Machen tip is being reclaimed by plants, animals and birds - and by people too. Osi Rhys Osmond observes the spoil heap at Mynydd Machen. |