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Clare crosses the famous 鈥楤ridge over the Atlantic鈥� for a ramble on the island of Seil. Her guide is the writer, educator, and director of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, Norrie Bissell. Geopoetics is described as 鈥渃reatively expressing the earth鈥� and is critical of the western way of thinking which separates humans from the rest of the natural world. Norrie has also published a novel, 鈥楤arnhill鈥�, about George Orwell鈥檚 final years on the relatively nearby Island of Jura where he wrote 1984.

Approximately twelve miles south of Oban, Seil is a small island separated from the mainland by the narrowest of sea channels. It became known as one of the 鈥榮late islands鈥� thanks to its slate rock deposits which were quarried and used to 鈥榬oof the world鈥�. Norrie and Clare begin their walk on the mainland side of the bridge, at Grid Ref NM 785 196.

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Presenter: Clare Balding
Producer for 麻豆约拍 Audio in Bristol: Karen Gregor