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Excursions into the otherwise. Interviews, reviews and discussion of our strange and estranged relationship to landscape.
Episodes

Oct 21, 2025
Oct 21, 2025
59 min

Jul 22, 2025
Jul 22, 2025
46 min
An interview with artist, writer and curator Lally MacBeth about her new book, The Lost Folk.
Lally's website is lallymacbeth.org; the Folk Archive instagram page is linked here.
The music on this episode is by Woodchester Piano Company from the album Ambient Tea Party, available via Bandcamp.

Jun 27, 2025
Jun 27, 2025
1hr 2 min
An interview with writer and artist Rob St John about his musical and socially engaged works using field recordings and other media to explore a relationship with place.
Rob's website is robstjohn.co.uk and he's also responsible for the music and recordings on this episode, many of which are through Blackford Hill Records.

Apr 3, 2025
Apr 3, 2025
50 min
An interview with writer Ken Worpole about his influential work on the 'New English Landscape' and his new book Brightening from the East.
Ken's website is at worpole.net and his publisher is Little Toller Books.
Music by Micro Moon from the album Figures in a Landscape.
I (Justin) am doing my show The Great Satanic Swindle in April, with dates in Stockton-on-Tees and in Leeds.

Mar 28, 2025
Mar 28, 2025
1hr 8 min
An interview with designer David Knight about 'plotlands' communities in the UK and the work of anarchist writer Colin Ward.
David's practice is DK-CM, and the book Mutual Aid, Everyday Anarchism: Essays on Colin Ward is from Five Leaves Publishing.
Music by Asher Levitas from his album Peripheral Lands.
I (Justin) am doing my show The Great Satanic Swindle in April, with dates in Stockton-on-Tees and in Leeds.

Mar 18, 2025
Mar 18, 2025
59 min
An interview with folk duo Stick in the Wheel about their recent album A Thousand Pokes, a kind of psychogeographic dig into London through folk song.
Check out Stick in the Wheel at their website, including tour dates, and get A Thousand Pokes from Bandcamp.
I (Justin) am doing my show The Great Satanic Swindle in April, with dates in Stockton-on-Tees and in Leeds.

Oct 17, 2024
Oct 17, 2024
52 min
An interview with Elizabeth Bennett about her new book, Performing Folk Songs: Affect, Landscape, Repertoire.
Find Elizabeth on Instagram and find the book via Bloomsbury.
The music in this episode is from the new album by Stick in the Wheel, A Thousand Pokes, available from their Bandcamp.

Apr 26, 2024
Apr 26, 2024
59 min
Laura Cannell is a musician based in Suffolk, East Anglia, England. Her work combines experimental, folk, early and medieval music, as well as a number of unique and rare techniques.
Her website is https://lauracannell.com/ where you can find out about recordings and gigs, or you can visit her Brawl Records bandcamp site to check out music and buy recordings.
The music in this episode is from Laura's recent 'Lore' series, available through the bandcamp site.

Mar 14, 2024
Mar 14, 2024
1hr 3 min

Feb 7, 2024
Feb 7, 2024
57 min
An interview by Justin Hopper with James Canton.
James Canton is a writer and educator; the author of books including Ancient Wonderings, The Oak Papers, and Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of our Ancestors.
His website is https://jamescanton.co.uk/
He is also active on Instagram.
The music in this episode is Leaves Rustle and the Wind in my Hair by Pefkin, from the album Observations on Land and Sea, available from Pefkin's bandcamp page.
