During this pandemic thousands of rock stacks have appeared in Whitley Bay. The contributors stand and wait and take their turn, a crowd in time but not space. Nobody's suggested the piles are memorials, which is a relief because they're prolific. Owen Humphreys, who took these photos and more, is a guest on today's "Ships, Sea, and the Stars" which focuses on the coast.
I say "focuses" but it's a pretty holistic episode, taking in everything from where best to see the Northern Lights (an aeroplane with the lights out) to things it's unlucky to say on a boat ("rabbit" is out), and I provide another couple of readings, one a nearly two-centuries-old account of a trip to the seaside by Charles Dickens, for which it was suggested I do a voice, and the other a poem from the Shetlands based on a Viking proverb - Bound Is The Boatless Man - for which it was suggested I didn't:
I say "focuses" but it's a pretty holistic episode, taking in everything from where best to see the Northern Lights (an aeroplane with the lights out) to things it's unlucky to say on a boat ("rabbit" is out), and I provide another couple of readings, one a nearly two-centuries-old account of a trip to the seaside by Charles Dickens, for which it was suggested I do a voice, and the other a poem from the Shetlands based on a Viking proverb - Bound Is The Boatless Man - for which it was suggested I didn't:
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