Raynor Winn
Michael Berkeley's guest is writer Raynor Winn, whose first book The Salt Path followed the remarkable journey she and her husband Moth made around the South West Coastal Path.
Raynor Winn is a writer whose first book, The Salt Path, followed the remarkable 630-mile journey she and her husband Moth made around the South West Coastal Path.
It was a story of endurance as they had lost their home, had little money and Moth had been diagnosed with a terminal illness. But they found solace in nature and kept putting one foot in front of the other, living for the now: a message that obviously chimed with readers, as the book became a bestseller and is currently being made into a film.
Raynor has since written a sequel called The Wild Silence, about readjusting to four walls and normal life after that seminal walk, and Landlines where she and Moth again embark on a thousand-mile journey from Scotland back to the familiar shores of the South West Coast Path.
Raynor's musical choices include works by Britten, Schubert and Vaughan Williams.
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Peter Knight & John Spiers
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Melodie (Orfeo ed Euridice)
Music Arranger: Giovanni Sgambati. Performer: H茅l猫ne Grimaud. -
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Franz Schubert
Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D. 343
Performer: Ll欧r Williams. Lyricist: Johann Georg Jacobi. Singer: Bryn Terfel. -
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Benjamin Britten
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner. -
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Hannah Martin & Gigspanner Big Band
Salt Song by Hannah Martin
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
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Julie Fowlis
The Song of the Seal (脪ran an R貌in)
- Recording of a live performance on 大象传媒 R4 Saturday Live programme TX: 06/11/22021.
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