The way that people respond to wild places lights them up; so proposes writer Dan Richards, who’s latest acclaimed book, ‘Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth’, explores what wilderness means to us. In this podcast he discusses whether our response to wilderness is bearing witness to the traces of humans who have been affected by places that, in our imagination, are meant to be savage and untameable.
Does wilderness comprise the places where a writer can touch ‘other’? Be lonely? Feel alive? Escape human connection? Or see what the world would be like without us? These places change us, and with music by Dan himself and prompting from Colin - solo in this episode - together they ponder ultimately whether humans are entitled to go to these places that might themselves be irrevocably changed by our visits? 
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:
Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth 
Wealden Literary Festival 
Dan Richards 
Svalbard 
Ny Ålesund 
Polar Bear 
Climate change 
Desolation Peak 
Jack Kerouac 
On the Road 
Thoreau 
Walden 
Roald Dahl 
Francis Bacon 
Edward Abbey 
Gary Snyder  
Cairngorm Mountains 
Bothy 
Iceland sæluhús 
Mars Desert Research Station 
Cordouan Lighthouse 
Ray Bradbury 
The Foghorn 
The Signalman, Charles Dickens 
Roger Deakin 
Nicky Wire, Manic Street Preachers 
Oscar II Land 
 

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