Landscape and Literature

In the last in our series, Alice Oswald takes Madeleine Bunting for a walk along the river Dart and explains why, for her, water represents the complexity of putting an ever-changing landscape in to words

Artist and writer Rachel Lichtenstein takes Madeleine Bunting to Whitechapel in east London to revisit her own past and consider a place that has changed dramatically since her grandparents arrived there in the 1930s

Robert Macfarlane kicks off our three-part series about literature and landscape. He takes Madeleine Bunting to the mysterious landscape of Orford Ness, a decommissioned nuclear testing site now owned by the National Trust, and talks of the challenges of capturing in words such an unstable landscape

Introducing a new series of podcasts beginning on 9 July 2012, in which Madeleine Bunting travels the country to meet writers inspired by location, and finds out how they go about interpreting their environments in words