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The Bronze Age Man of Jodrell Bank

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moss M
moss May 21, 2014 12:21:55

For those who are childish enough to read books by children authors, a truly fascinating radio programme about Alan Garner and Alderley Edge.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043x86j

"The writer, Alan Garner lives in a medieval building on a Bronze Age site, within a mile of the Jodrell Bank radio telescope. In this documentary he explains how the Bronze Age legacy of his home and its proximity to Jodrell Bank have been the inspiration for his writing over the last 50 years. He describes how it gives him a unique sense of place, and a perspective on the passage of time which is reflected in his most recent book Boneland, set in and around Jodrell Bank, where the main character works. The novel is the third and final part of a trilogy that first propelled Garner to fame with the children's classic fantasy story, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen over 50 years ago."

R Rhiannon
Rhiannon May 21, 2014 14:11:40
Replying to moss

oooh thank you!! how superb. Thank you, Moss.

I was just reading something about his work the other day
http://awfullybigblogadventure.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/why-colin-cant-remember-reflections-on.html

" it is the landscape itself, its history and prehistory, that furnishes the element of wonder [to his work] that [his] legendary borrowings supplied before"
and
"in those countries where .. order is not breaking down - we collude in the communal self-deception that we have everything under control, that it’s all sorted, pretty much. What Garner reminds us, as writers, is that our task is to open a crack in the walls of that complacency, and let in the light of wonder."

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