Under the Canopy: Forests of folktale and imagination - BBC World Service

It's estimated that there are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. Why are we so fascinated by forests?

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Writer and environmental historian Jessica J Lee sets out to describe the myriad ways that forests operate in our lives and the life of the planet.

In this episode, Jessica unpicks the profound role that forests play in our imaginative life. We know of course that they feature heavily in the fairy tales and myths we use to navigate life as children, and as we hear from writers Richard Powers, Max Porter, Peter Wohlleben and Melissa Harrison, they also offer ways of understanding the complexities of desire, politics and history in our adult lives. Poet Carl Phillips describes how forests mirror the wilderness within us, while writer Jini Reddy tells of how she found beauty in the forest through facing down her fears.

Music composed by Erland Cooper
Forest atmosphere by Sounds of the Forest, part of the Timber Festival

Under the Canopy is produced by Geoff Bird for The Compass, on BBC World Service

This programme also features extracts from:
Diana Beresford-Kroeger
The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris (read by Maxine Peake and the Bird Sisters)
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Lanny by Max Porter
The Fern Ticket I by Zakiya Mckenzie

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