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Robert Macfarlane

The author on the music that has shaped him.

Robert Macfarlane鈥檚 lyrical musings explore and celebrate our relationship with landscape and nature.

He鈥檚 a prize-winning author, a lyricist, librettist and spoken-word performer and he鈥檚 collaborated with artists, musicians and actors, including Willem Dafoe.

At the heart of his latest book is the idea that a river is a living being鈥ill that then inspire his Inheritance Tracks?

Inherited: River Man by Nick Drake
Pass on: Monkey Gone to Heaven by Pixies

Producers: Catherine Powell and Minnie Harrop

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