Blogs in December 2018

Something of his Art: Walking to Lübeck with J S Bach 4th December 2018

In the depths of winter in 1705 the young Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown as a composer and earning a modest living as a teacher and organist, set off on a long journey by foot to Lübeck to visit...

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Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North 29th November 2017

‘We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?’ A message from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around an extraordinary country and an unearthly...

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Running for the Hills 28th November 2014

When Jenny and Robert fall in love in the late 1960s they decide to build a new future together, away from the city. They escape to an isolated sheep farm nestled on a mountainside. It has no running water...

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