The Wild Cliffs of St David's

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BBC

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A cliff edge walk at St. David's in Pembrokeshire with artists Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott who are creating a book of illuminated folk stories. Jackie is writing the words and Tamsin is creating original pieces of stained glass for the book's artwork.

Jackie is an artist and writer possibly best known for her illustrations in The Lost Words, a large and beautiful book about language and nature. Tamsin is an established stained glass artist and illustrator inspired by the natural world.

As they ramble along the coast, Clare hears about their new project - Wild Folk: Tales from the Stones - seven ‘fables of transformation and power summoned from the ancient stones beneath our feet’. Inhabiting the pages are selkies and salmon, a great white raven, a huge black fox and a woman who lives as an owl.

Wild Folk doesn’t exist quite yet… It’s being crowd-funded and will be available in 2025.

They began their walk at Whitesands carpark and walked cliff-side towards the Coetan Arthur burial chamber on St. David's Head.

Presenter: Clare Balding 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
0:38.5	BBC sounds music radio podcasts it's a wild and windy winter's day perfect for ravens and i am
0:50.9	watching two of them suspended hovering above the edge of land.
0:56.0	And I have come right to the edge, to the Pembrokeshire coast, to St David.
1:02.3	The tide is coming in and the white horses stretching out for, gosh, probably 100 metres into the sea.
1:09.0	In the summertime, this would be packed with surfers the
1:13.0	car park wouldn't have a space to be seen but because it's winter time there's barely a soul to be
1:19.2	seen but up ahead dressed in bright colors wearing a red jacket and a blue bubble hat and a
1:27.0	lovely warm duffel coat over a bright blue jumper
1:30.8	are the two people who I'm going to walk with today. Jackie Morris, you may well have heard of
1:38.3	or seen her work. Most famously, The Lost Words with Robert McFarlane. She did all the amazing illustrations for that book.
1:47.3	And also Tamsin Abbott.
1:48.9	And Tamsin is a glass worker.
1:52.0	She does the most extraordinary stained glass artwork.
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