• In conversation with Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland

  • Jun 28 2024
  • Length: 35 mins
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In conversation with Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland

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  • Robert Macfarlane is a best selling British author, best know for his books on landscape and nature, including The Old Ways, The Lost Words (with Jackie Morris), and now Underland, an exploration of the weird and wondrous realms, both natural and man made, that exist beneath our feet, and beyond our perception of time. Deep time.

    The Bookshop Band wrote a song inspired by Robert Macfarlane's book Underland, called Deep Time, from their 14th studio album, produced by music legend Pete Townshend.

    Their conversation touches on Winter Soltise mistakes, which owls to take underground, working with musicians, including Johnny Flynn, pot-holing mistakes and loosing cellos to caves, recording the song with Pete Townshend, metaphors of the underground and the detail of the dark, Christmas cards from Stanley Donwood and Household Worms, plus an exciting cover reveal of the new album (doesn't work so well on audio).
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