“To enter a wood is to pass into a different world” said author Roger Deakin, and in this episode, recorded in ancient Staverton Thicks forest, we explore why it is that there is a history of humans going to the woods to grow and learn, and to travel to find ourselves, often by getting lost. Why is it a place of story-telling, of fairy tales, of childhood imagination?
Disorientating for many modern humans, is there a density of ‘otherness’ in forest, and is this why for us the wild wood is it place of fear but also a place that we love? Sit with us on a mossy fallen tree as we question whether these are places to hide, to escape and adventure, or ones to fear where the non-human - or perhaps human - is watching us.
THEME MUSIC BY DAVID ROTHENBERG. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. USED BY KIND PERMISSION OF THE ARTIST http://www.davidrothenberg.net 
Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:
Blair Witch Project 
Staverton Thicks 
Pollarding 
Gossip from the Forest - Sara Maitland 
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak 
Grimm’s Fairy Tales 
As You Like It - William Shakespeare 
Walden - Henry David Thoreau 
Wood - Andy Goldsworthy
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorn 
The Consolations of the Forest - Sylvain Tesson 
Wild Wood - Roger Deakin 
Woodlands - Oliver Rackham 
Lord of the Rings 
Domesday Book 
Beowulf 
Białowieża 
Baka people 
The Witch - Robert Eggers 
Grizzly Adams 
Olympic National Park 
Massachusetts
Polish Jewish villages 
 

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