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A Walk in the Woods

Danish radio producer Rikke Houd takes a walk in the forest - a place to get lost in, and a place to find oneself too.

Our relationship to the forest is ancient and complex. Woodland offers protection but also harbours some of our deepest fears.

Danish radio producer Rikke Houd takes a walk in the forest, in the company of writers including Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Neruda, Dinah Hawken and the Swedish poet Tomas Transtr枚mer, and discovers a place where we can both lose and find ourselves.

With music by Jussi Bj枚rling, the Polish composer and dendrophiliac Krzysztof Penderecki and the Swedish musician Victoria Bergsman, who performs as Taken By Trees.

Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for 大象传媒 Radio 4

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 20 Feb 2022 23:30

Music Played

  • Amiina

    What are we waiting for

    • Puzzle.
    • Amiinamusik.
  • Monica Zetterlund & Bill Evans

    Vindarna sucka uti skogarna

    • Waltz For Debby.
    • Riverside.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Solen er saa rod mor [The sun is so red, mother]

    Performer: Ulrik Cold.
    • De Bedste Sange.
    • Classico.
  • Bonnie Prince Billy

    Even if love

    Performer: Bonnie Prince Billy.
    • Master and Everyone.
    • Domino.
  • Hugo Alfven

    Skogen sover [The forest sleeps] vers. for voice and piano

    Performer: Jussi Bjorling.
    • Nimbus.
    • Jussi Bjorling, Volume 2.
  • BE Wheeler

    The Pine Tree

    Performer: Johnny Cash/June Carter.
    • Duets.
    • Columbia.

Readings

Title: Hope

Author: Dinah Hawken

Publisher: Victoria University Press


Title: Lost in the Forest聽

Author: Pablo Neruda

Publisher: Bloodaxe


Title: The Clearing (from Truth Barriers)

Author: Tomas Transtr枚mer (trans. Robert Bly)

Publisher: Sierra Club Books


Broadcasts

  • Sun 28 Feb 2016 06:05
  • Sun 28 Feb 2016 23:30
  • Sun 20 Feb 2022 06:05
  • Sun 20 Feb 2022 23:30