EP59: Storytelling, Plants and the Feminine - with Clare Viner

Plants & People: An Ethnobotanical Journey Through The Plant Kingdom by Robin Harford

May 5, 202649:01Arts

Robin Harford meets storyteller Clare Viner beneath a flowering hawthorn tree in Devon to explore the living tradition of oral storytelling. Clare shares how stories belong to everyone - not fixed texts handed down by ce...

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