Willow
Brett Westwood embraces the willow. A tree celebrated across cultures for its beauty and versatility, it is the tree we have hugged closer than any other.
Brett Westwood embraces the Willow. A tree celebrated across cultures for its beauty and versatility, it's the tree we've hugged closer than any other. Brett learns from Joan Armatrading how the willow can take away our pain, and visits the willow fields of the Somerset levels, where tall-growing willows sway like a bamboo forest.
As it weeps by our waterways and whispers in our hedgerows, it's given us endless laments, has been used by witches for magic wands and broomsticks, and has been turned into everything from charcoal to coffins, to painkillers.
Natural Histories - the only programme where Monet and Shakespeare meet The Wicker Man and folk-rock supergroup Steeleye Span.
Originally broadcast in a longer form on 17th July 2018
Original producer: Melvin Rickarby.
Archive Producer for 麻豆社 Audio in Bristol : Andrew Dawes
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Broadcasts
- Tue 17 Jul 2018 11:00麻豆社 Radio 4
- Mon 23 Jul 2018 21:00麻豆社 Radio 4
- Sun 20 Mar 2022 06:35麻豆社 Radio 4
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