Kate Chisholm

Radio that makes you feel the wind on your cheek

Kirsty Gunn’s spring walk for The Essay on Radio 3 was bracing, but is Radio 4’s commitment to drama on the wane?

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issue 05 April 2014

After a walk in Richmond Park beset by rush-hour traffic, the Heathrow flight path and a strange swarm of flying ants (strange because so early in the year), it was unsettling to come back in and switch on and listen to Kirsty Gunn’s spring walk for this week’s The Essay on Radio 3 (which I heard as a preview but you can now catch on iPlayer).

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