Stained Glass in Minsmere with Arabella Marshall

Ramblings

BBC

Science, Nature, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Glass artist, Arabella Marshall, takes Clare for a walk at Minsmere in Suffolk. Their focus is an old chapel ‘bleak and broken’ which provided Arabella with the inspiration for a major work of art: a new stained-glass window fitted into one of the ruin’s old apertures. It’s a striking modern feature in the abandoned building. The idea came to her when out walking which, alongside her artistic practice, is the thing she loves best in life. She says rambling alone provides creative inspiration and a space for problem solving.

Producer: Karen Gregor

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting.
0:04.7	Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC.
0:08.4	I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book.
0:11.4	But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts.
0:15.4	I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into
0:19.2	a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to
0:25.2	give it a go myself, which, to cut a long story short, led to a BBC training scheme and a whole
0:30.0	new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories
0:34.2	that make you go wow, like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC Sounds.
0:40.8	BBC Sounds Music, radio podcasts.
0:44.6	I've come today to Suffolk. It's a very breezy day and a chilly breeze at that.
0:51.0	If you want to follow us on the map, I'm on OS Explorer 212, which is Woodbridge
0:55.2	and Saxe Mundum, right on the coast of the North Sea, and Arabella Marshall is taking me on a walk.
1:03.2	We are officially in the Mimsmere Nature Reserve, aren't we? Not yet. So at the moment, we're on
1:09.0	Danyage Heath, which is not yet part of Minsmir, but as we go
1:14.4	down through the woods, we'll go through a gate and suddenly where we are.
1:20.9	Whoa, that is a strong wind.
1:23.7	We're walking on a sandy path.
1:25.6	We're heading inland and around us, very low-lying heathland, obviously, in heather.
1:32.7	And actually the gorse is in flower, so we've got dashes of yellow.
1:37.9	But you can see the beginnings of the heather buds.
1:41.0	And I can imagine the colour here in summer.
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