Stone Club Walks and Talks

Anjana Khatwa is today's guest and joins us to discuss her book The Whispers of Rock. We start with Anjana's earliest love of rocks and gelogy through her academic career to the author she is today. We talk about Anjana's passion for encouraging and inspiring young people as well as authors and geologists that Anjana is inspired by and works alongside. We talk about the stones used to build stonehenge, where they came from and why they might have been chosen.

Peter Ross joins us to talk about his book Upon A White Horse. A book and conversation that take us on a journey around the British Isles, exploring the ancient sites and meeting many of the people that love them, protect them, research them and carry the stories of the stones with them. We talk about Peter's process of writing, about rural and urban spaces that are home to stone circles. about music and about how Upon A White Horse forms the conclusion to his unofficial trilogy that also includes A Tomb With a View and Steeple Chasing.

Manni Coe is the author of Little Ruins and co-author of brother.do.you.love.me with his brother Reuben.We talk about the idea of home and finding home. `We discuss landscape, stones and memory. We delve into painful memories as wll as talking about finding love and a place to live, walk and to write. We chat about pilgrimage and transformation.

Author Fiona Robertson is our guest today, we discuss Fiona's book Stone Lands and some of the ancient sites that inspired the book and feature in it. We chat about memory, landscape, loss and enduring love. We talk about ancient sites around the UK and the magic of the old stones.

Penny Rimbaud joins Matthew Shaw for a wide ranging conversation taking in Penny's artistic practice, gardening, baking bread, Crass, Stonehenge and returning to meditation as a practice. Contrary, boundry pushing, wise, uncomfortable at times while always promoting love, this is Penny in his unique uncensored flow.