February 2, 2022
Uncanny Landscapes #12 -Michael Pawlyn
An interview by Justin Hopper with architect, writer and activist Michael Pawlyn.
The music is by Woodchester Piano Company, from the album Persevera, available from their bandcamp page.
Special thanks to Gareth Evans.
December 22, 2021
Uncanny Landscapes #11 - Richard Skelton
An interview by Justin Hopper with writer, artist and musician Richard Skelton.
Richard Skelton is a writer, artist and musician whose work explores the human relationship to landscape; along with the poet Autumn Richardson, he is co-founder of Corbel Stone Press, a preeminent venue for contemporary and historical writing about place and nature from around the world.
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October 21, 2021
An interview by Justin Hopper with writer, academic and psychogeographer Sonia Overall.
Sonia Overall is a writer, academic and avid psychogeographer based in southeast England. She is the founder of Women Who Walk, a network for creatives and academics, as well as the creator of many walking-based projects including Distance Drift, a lockdown-inspired weekly psychogeographic prompt. Her recent book Heavy Time follows a 'pilgrimage' walk through the east of England, exploring the idea of 'thin places' and walking with intent. She speaks to us about psychogeography, hauntings, the dissolving lines between her field and 'new nature writing', women in psychogeography and more.
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The music in this episode is by Oddfellow's Casino, the recording project of writer and producer Dr. David Bramwell, and includes work from both the instrumental and with-words versions of their album, The Cult of Water. It's available from the
Oddfellow's Casino Bandcamp page. Used by permission of the artists, with great thanks.
September 7, 2021
Uncanny Landscapes #8 - Gary Budden
An interview by Justin Hopper with writer Gary Budden
Gary Budden is a Kent-born, London-based, writer of weird fiction and also-weird non-fiction. His latest collection of short stories, London Incognita, explores the realities of a fractured capital through tales of the otherwise. His non-fiction collaborations with the artist Maxim Griffin explore his uncanny home on the Kentish shoreline. He speaks with us about Landscape Punk, underground music, birdwatching, Arthur Machen and more.
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The music is by Swedish band Seeds in Barren Fields, from their project, Sånger som rämnar - available via their Bandcamp. Used by permission of the artists, and with great thanks.
November 26, 2020
Uncanny Landscapes #8 - Rich Pell, the Center for PostNatural History
An interview by Justin Hopper with artist Rich Pell of the Center for PostNatural History.
Rich Pell is an artist and art professor based in Pittsburgh who founded and operates the Center for PostNatural History - a permanent museum dedicated to the cultural influence on evolution.
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November 12, 2020
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Uncanny Landscapes #7 - Kate Davis
An interview by Justin Hopper with poet Kate Davis.
Kate Davis is a poet, performer, artist, swimmer, taxidermist and more based in the Furness peninsula of northwestern England. Her book The Girl Who Forgets How To Walk (Penned in the Margins) examines a lifelong relationship to that landscape as affected by childhood polio.
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September 25, 2020
Uncanny Landscapes #6 - Gareth E. Rees
An interview by Justin Hopper with writer Gareth E. Rees.
Gareth Rees is an author whose books explore modern myths and folklore of place. He has previously published 2013’s Marshland, about Hackney, and 2018’s The Stone Tide, before becoming nationally known for 2019’s Car Park Life. His new book is Unofficial Britain, about the 'first shoots of future folklore emerging from an urban Britain that ... remains very strange indeed'.
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September 17, 2020
Uncanny Landscapes #5 - The Belbury Poly
An interview by Justin Hopper with musician and record-label head Jim Jupp.
Jim Jupp records music as The Belbury Poly, and releases his own music as well as that of many others via the Ghost Box Records label he operates with designer Julian House. His latest record, The Gone Away, is a concept album based on fairy lore and touching on ideas of ephemerality and memory in landscape and life.
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The Ghost Box
website and
twitter feed provide info on Jupp and the label.
August 13, 2020
Uncanny Landscapes #4 - Stein Farstadvoll
An interview by Justin Hopper with archaeologist Stein Farstadvoll.
Stein Farstadvoll is an archaeologist of the contemporary world working in arctic Norway and based at the University of Tromso. His work images vestigial and out-of-place objects that contribute to uncanny places: from an abandoned landscape garden to the military ruins of the area’s World War 2 German fortifications.
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You can read about the Boxgrove, West Sussex, horse butchery archaeological site on the
BBC News site, here.
July 30, 2020
An interview by Justin Hopper with photographer Roei Greenberg
Roei Greenberg is an London-based Israeli artist whose photographs explore borders and boundaries, whether they are the ‘hot’ political borders of his home on the Israel-Lebanon border, or the subtle, implicit boundaries of the English picturesque. We spoke about his projects English Encounters and Along the Break; about contested landscapes; and about the ghosts that haunt our places, fighting for the chance to be seen.
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Music by Russell McAlpine